Snow Leopards: ‘Seek and Ye Shall Find’
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 […]
Category Archives: Travel & Exploration
A Mountain Inside
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 […]
GPS Training (Photo journal)
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 […]
The Holy Ground
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 […]
Journey to Sacred Altai
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 […]
In God’s Back Door
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, […]
Altai Pilgrim 