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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 14, 2013 - 10:49pm PT
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About two decades ago I went to one of the early Banff Film Festivals; it had a night or two in Santa Cruz, as it traveled. I think this was 1996 or so. This short film by Fred Fougea, written by Gilles Santantonio, had won the Banff award for Best Film on the Mountain Environment. It progresses without benefit of a regular language track. Eventually I was in quiet tears, watching these Kazakhs and their eagles on the Steppes. The birds are always females, I understand. There was, however, an english voiceover that was basically the falconer Kazakh guy ruminating over having to release his eagle and acquire a new one which he then traps, as “it was time” to let his one eagle go back to the wild. This eagle had been calling to him about going back soon. That voiceover seems to be missing now though it was awfully poignant and a great addition to the essentially wordless piece. Terrific 26 minute film:
http://www.myspace.com/video/lords-of-the-animals/lord-of-the-eagles/109067328
Or
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx7kvy_lords-of-the-animals-lord-of-the-eagles_shortfilms
BUT first watch this trailer for it, as it has the missing voiceover of the man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6D-lsltHVk
And here is a great explanation about eagle hunting in this region:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=aEnSPYsiikY
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 14, 2013 - 11:24pm PT
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great short movie, thanks Peter!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 15, 2013 - 12:05am PT
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Peter, I'll have to watch that later. I've a special place in me heart for that neck o' the woods. I met some very soulful people there. One stands out. He had a math degree from the prestigious Frunze Academy. When I met him he was on a horse riding up to his family's summer pasture at about 10,000'. We spent the night with his mum, sister, and brother in their yurt eating mutton and freshly-squeezed goat yogurt. 35 years on I still get worked thinking about that experience. I'd post pics and go on but I don't want to burnish my rep as a thread-jacker.
OK, just the one...
Waay happy cows...and fit, too! That was one steep climb!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2013 - 01:33am PT
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Reilly, you've got to put out a thread on that. Many would love it!!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2013 - 02:00am PT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2013 - 10:59pm PT
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That's funny JimB. In fact, if these people (Idaho and Wyoming hunters) want to hunt wolves, let them try it in this manner. At least there is some natural elegance to it. Incredible footage, this last link.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Mar 16, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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Love it Mr. Haan!
Now Reilly, pop with the goods already.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 16, 2013 - 10:48pm PT
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Yeah, with Tarbusier here, Reilly please put your stuff up a-sap. We all would thrill to see it.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 16, 2013 - 10:55pm PT
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Darn it all,
You just don't see this stuff sitn'n cubicles in the 9-to-5 anymore. Not regular.
Haven't for about 10,000+ years. That's why it's seeming so fresh.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 16, 2013 - 11:34pm PT
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No kidding, T-Bird. Here we have a 26 minute (short) film that is essentially without any dialogue or explanation, holding us fast to its plot nonetheless. I do rue the lack of the original english voiceover that was posed as the voice of the falconer but the movie is so strong even in lack of it. And what a crazy crazy bond this is, eagle and eagle captor-partner. Just a terrific view on nature here.
They don't hold their eagles forever but release them after a number of years and gain new ones who they train as well. And these birds are literally feeding their human brood, in a sense, as they would their own eaglets. Just so robustly emotional, in my view.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 17, 2013 - 01:59am PT
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Unreal!
Thanks for the hook up!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 17, 2013 - 08:09am PT
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And these birds are literally feeding their human brood,
Trained cormorants do the same for their human families in south China by fishing with strings around their necks so they can't swallow what they catch. Of course they do get fish to eat later.
Thanks for an interesting and positive thread, Peter.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 19, 2013 - 06:13pm PT
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I just want to let y'all know I'm not shirking my responsibilities to you.
I will do a TR but I want to do it right which means finding the pics and
scanning them. Some are negs and that is a RPITA. And this week belongs
to the IRS, too. So, maybe a week or two?
Stand by... :-)
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Tarbuster
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Mar 19, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
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That's the spirit Reilly!!!
You know how we are too; requiring a proper date with all the trimmings and nothing less!
These really are a handsome people out there in the steppe.
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