Tenti the Eagle Hunter

I love reading guidebooks. It’s not in the prose that’s for sure. Where the magic lies in a single sentence or line that describes a custom, festival, or attraction unique to the area. Well, of course. That’s what guidebooks do.

But there’s something about the particular oddity, vista, or dish that will land as what’s to become my mark of that particular place. Something so far outside of what I’ve experienced, my library of known; something that sounds like such an encapsulation of that country’s past, present, and future, that if I am lucky enough to experience it, I’m already convinced that I will have found my way to the heart of that place.

This afternoon with Tenti the Eagle Hunter was one of those days….Thank you to the Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund for making this trip of a lifetime possible.