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Photographs fron the 1977 British Speleological Expedition to the Zagros Mts, Iran. - Back to index - foward to next image
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| Base camp - bus was about quarter mile away, just couldn't get it any further. You can just see the continuation of the track on the right. There were evidence of leopard kills - mules, dogs etc and the 2nd day saw one just up on... cont below. |
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| ...head of the gorge. Weird feeling to be camping with leopards around ! Does not help when someone suggets that a sleeping bag full of bare flesh must have the same sort of texture as a goat - sort of furry on the outside, then meat - a few sleepless nights we had by all. Actually, these were rare persian leopards, or lynx I think and we we very privilaged to see a couple. Later, at the top camp we saw evidence of large bears overnight - about ten inch long footprint. Didn't see one - though I have recently checked references to the wildlife of this region and there is no mention anywhere of large bears. That didn't help either - as we spent most of our days exploring every cave entrance we could find ! |