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... wildlife and to look for areas that might make suitable national parks . Hardship and disappointment marked these journeys - they contributed little to my knowledge of wildlife - but now I think they fulfilled a need , both scientific ...
... wildlife and to look for areas that might make suitable national parks . Hardship and disappointment marked these journeys - they contributed little to my knowledge of wildlife - but now I think they fulfilled a need , both scientific ...
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... wildlife conditions . An elderly man with short- cropped white hair , craggy face , and a hint of Mongolian blood around his eyes , he served us tea and cherries . Little wildlife , he told us , survived in the main Hunza Valley . Ladak ...
... wildlife conditions . An elderly man with short- cropped white hair , craggy face , and a hint of Mongolian blood around his eyes , he served us tea and cherries . Little wildlife , he told us , survived in the main Hunza Valley . Ladak ...
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... wildlife reserve to ensure himself and his friends good hunting . His son , the present nawab , Malik Muzaffar Khan , continues to conserve urial and gazelle with the result that more wildlife can be seen in a day's walk there than ...
... wildlife reserve to ensure himself and his friends good hunting . His son , the present nawab , Malik Muzaffar Khan , continues to conserve urial and gazelle with the result that more wildlife can be seen in a day's walk there than ...
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ahead altitudes animals behavior bharal Bhote Kosi blue sheep boulders camp canyon Chitral Chitral Gol cliffs climb clouds crest cubs dark descend dhole Dolpo feet female forest Gilgit glacier gorge grass Gyaltsen habitat halt head herd hills Himalaya Himalayan tahr Hindu Hindu Kush horns hunting Hunza ibex India Indus Jang-bu Karakoram Karchat Kashmir Khan Kilik Pass kill lama Lapche leave livestock loads look males Marco Polo sheep markhor miles Misgar monastery morning mountains nearby Nepal night Nilgiri tahr once Pakistan pass peaks Pervez Peter Phu-Tsering plateau porters rams range reached remain ridge Ringmo river road rock route sheep and goats Sherpas Shey Skardu slopes snow leopard soon species stone Tarakot tent Tibet Tibetan tiger trail trees trip tsampa urial valley vanished village walk walls watched wild goat wildlife wind winter wolves yaks young