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Tailing a Herd
We had never seen this terrain before, but we didn't come here blind. George Schaller, a world-renowned wildlife biologist, has been studying the chiru for 15 years, and lobbying for their protection. In 2001, trekking south from China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, he found a concentration of pregnant females, but was unable to wait for the births. Now, with Schaller's notes in hand, we hoped to confirm that location as the calving grounds of Tibet's western chiru herd. We knew that migrating females would converge near Toze Kangri, so that's where our five-day drive from Lhasa, Tibet, ended, and where our foot safari began.
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