Off Route

Tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas at 14,000 feet

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Nineteen days at altitude, two trackers who have spent their lives reading this valley, and eleven seconds of a cat crossing a scree slope at four hundred metres.

The film is really about the trackers. Dorje can name every gully on this face and read a two-day-old print in gravel, and nothing about that skill is written down anywhere.