• Eagle Festival videos

    October 5, 2019 in Mongolia ⋅ 🌙 0 °C

    All day we watched the 120 competitors call their eagles down from the mountain onto their arm.
    So many didn’t make it!! They circled overhead but landed outside the arena, or just buggered off straight away not to be seen. K was complaining she hadn’t got a good shot of an eagle landing. We were walking through the stalls and one landed at our feet- about 100m from where it should have landed!!
    The first video gives an idea of what we were watching. It was taken late in the pm so sorry for the poor placement.
    The other video was of the loviest old man and his ? Son who helped him onto his horse.
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