13-year-old Ashol Pan with the Golden Eagle she’s training. Photo by Asher Svidensky.

“Golden eagles are deeply engrained in Kazakh culture. In Mongolia, the practice of raising a bird of prey to hunt for food throughout the year (called Berkutchy) was originally a male-only pursuit, but as more and more men head into the cities, women have taken up the torch.”

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