The people of Mongolian Taiga are the nomads who are seemingly immune from degeneration, still living in such proximity to wild animals with a certain spiritual wisdom, sense of healing and well-being lost to our notions of time and laws of civilization.
The ancient Greek poet Pindar once described a perfect land called HYPERBOREA, beyond the great wind in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia, where the sun always shone, where a race of healers live with, “neither disease not bitter old age”
Photographer HAMID SARDAR-AFKHAMI is a scholar in Mongolian and Tibetan languages, with a PhD from Harvard. After living in Tibet and exploring the Himalayan regions for more than a decade, Hamid began taking annual expeditions into the Mongolian outback to document a country where a majority of the population is still nomadic.
THEIR SPIRITUAL CONNECTION WITH ANIMALS EXTENDS BEYOND KEEPING COMPANY WITH JUST THE REINDEER OF THEIR DREAMSCAPES, BUT WITH THE WOLVES TOO, THE EAGLES AND EVEN THE BEARS.
Eagle hunting in Mongolia is an old tradition that has passed from generation to generation. Eagles Hunters tame eagles and use them for hunting smaller animals, such as foxes and marmots.
It is not a sport to them, but a way of life.
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