Make room for Aisholpan, the 1. Mongolia. For 2,0. High resolution official theatrical movie poster for The Eagle Huntress (2016). Image dimensions: 1373 x 2048. Directed by Otto Bell. Starring Aisholpan Nurgaiv. This Girls Hooded Huntress Costume is right on target for a Hunger Games costume! Kazakh people of the Altai region in western Mongolia have practiced a tradition of hunting with golden eagles, whose wingspan can reach up to 7. Though this practice has traditionally been the domain of men, Aisholpan decides that she wants to become an apprentice hunter after spending her childhood helping her father, a renowned eagle hunter, care for his birds. Under the tutelage and support of her father and her grandfather. A 1. 3- year- old eagle huntress in Mongolia. A photographer who snapped what could be the world's only girl hunting with a golden eagle says watching her work was an amazing sight. Image copyright. Asher Svidensky. Most children, Asher Svidensky says, are a little intimidated by golden eagles. Kazakh boys in western Mongolia start learning how to use the huge birds to hunt for foxes and hares at the age of 1. Svidensky, a photographer and travel writer, shot five boys learning the skill as well as the girl, Ashol- Pan. Ashol- Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress. Image copyright. Asher Svidensky. They hunt in winter, when the temperatures can drop to - 4. C (- 4. 0F). A hunt begins with days of trekking on horseback through snow to a mountain or ridge giving an excellent view of prey for miles around. Check out New Movie Posters: 'Arrival,' 'Zoom,' 'The Eagle Huntress' and More and other movie photo galleries and celebrity photo galleries at Movies.com.Hunters generally work in teams. After a fox is spotted, riders charge towards it to flush it into the open, and an eagle is released. If the eagle fails to make a kill, another is released. Image copyright. Asher Svidensky. Image caption. Bahak Birgen is renowned as Mongolia's youngest male eagle hunter. The skill of hunting with eagles, Svidensky says, lies in harnessing an unpredictable force of nature. You can try and make her hunt an animal - and then it's a matter of nature. What will the eagle do? How will you get her back afterwards? Female eaglets are chosen since they grow to a larger size - a large adult might be as heavy as seven kilos, with a wingspan of over 2. After years of service, on a spring morning, a hunter releases his mature eagle a final time, leaving a butchered sheep on the mountain as a farewell present. His photographs of her engaging in what has been a male activity for around 2,0. Mongolia in the 2. Century. Image copyright. Asher Svidensky. Follow @BBCNews. Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook. A photographer who snapped what could be the world's only girl hunting with a golden eagle says watching her work was an amazing sight. Witness one girl's dream take flight. Sony Classics has unveiled the first trailer for The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell, one of my favorite. These images of Nurgaiv, by photographer Asher Svidensky, went viral in 2014. Now Nurgaiv is the star of a new documentary, The Eagle Huntress, which charts her.
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