'He's so good looking.' Meet Mongolia's most eligible eagle hunter:
Galloping towards us on a stout Mongolian steed is the nomad's version of Brad Pitt returning home in"Legends of the Fall." Bundled inside a pinto jacket above richly embroidered trousers, he certainly catches the eye. A fox fur hat warms his head, and perched calmly on his right forearm is a golden eagle that's not merely a prop for a cheesy cologne advertisement.
Upon closer inspection, the intruder's weathered face betrays a life lived outdoors. But his jaw is certainly chiseled and his natural squint reminds me of a youthful Clint Eastwood as he gazes off into the distance.Arguably more impressive though is his stature, which I only begin to appreciate once he stands beside four other berkutchi, or eagle hunters, who have assembled in front of us for a scheduled photo shoot and interview session.
As well as the tug-of-war, Jenisbek is a champion archer, and he's won numerous awards for eagle hunting in Bayan-Ölgii, where the centuries-old pastime is more widespread than anywhere else on the planet.Tuul & Bruno Morandi/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images They continued to live as semi-nomadic herders in Western Mongolia, where traditional pastimes such as hunting with golden eagles continued, passing from one generation to the next. Since such practices were suppressed in Kazakhstan during Soviet rule, Bayan-Ölgii became the sport's nucleus.
One flirtatious contest involves a whip-cracking woman chasing after a man who doesn't always try overly hard to escape. I could imagine Jenisbek receiving a disproportionate share of lashings these past few years.But it's only once the tourists have gone that the eagle hunting season begins. From October to March, hunters head off into the mountains in pairs -- one to flush out their prey, the other to release the eagle from high along a ridgeline.
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