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Snow Leopards: ‘Seek and Ye Shall Find’

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My closest encounter with a snow leopard took place in the Altai Mountains with an ink brush in hand. My eyes locked onto the powerful hind legs and broad paws […]

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More from the field, People, Rock Art & Ancient Imagery, Snow leopard & other animals, Travel & Exploration, Travel Writing

A Mountain Inside

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Loving Mountains – Respecting Worldviews This article is a response to a request by Svetlana Katinova that visitors to Altai send contributions concerning their experience of sacred Mount Belukha and […]

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Published Articles, Travel & Exploration, Travel Writing

GPS Training (Photo journal)

November 14, 2010by Joanna Dobson Leave a comment

GPS Training for Nature Park Rangers, FSDA, July 2006      Early July I was asked to translate for an expedition group intending to set off for twelve days on […]

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Interpreting in the Field, More from the field, Snow leopard & other animals, Travel & Exploration

The Holy Ground

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The Holy Ground Took Care of Everything Recently, I spent five days in a mountain valley, Kosh-Agach region, Altai Republic. Maiya from the Agency for Cultural and Historical Research organised […]

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Life in the field, More from the field, Published Articles, Rock Art & Ancient Imagery, Travel & Exploration

Journey to Sacred Altai

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Journey to Sacred Altai (My first travel article on Altai – Kindred Spirit Magazine 2001)   What I am trying to say is hard to feel and hard to understand…unless […]

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Published Articles, Travel & Exploration, Travel Writing

In God’s Back Door

September 17, 2010by Joanna Dobson 3 Comments

      Pilgrimage to the Sacred Altai Valley – It can be the case that the longer you know a person or live in a place, the less interesting it, […]

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More from the field, Published Articles, Travel & Exploration

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On Writing About Altai

“It is hard to describe Altai or indeed anything which moves one so deeply in a place that is unaccustomed to words. It is not enough to describe the colours, the light, the people one meets or the landscape. This would be relatively easy. One tries as much to capture that which Altai touches in oneself that one did not know was there, and the wholeness or mystery of Altai which lies in no one thing and can be elucidated by no one field of knowledge.” Joanna

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