Aisholpan Nurgaiv Read by Lowri Morgan

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived where snowy peaks scraped the sky. Her name was Aisholpan. For generations, Kazakh nomads in Mongolia raised golden eagles to hunt. Aisholpan’s father was one of the best eagle hunters, so she asked him to teach her everything he knew. Despite the danger, she caught and trained her own eagle in the icy Altai mountains. She became the first woman to enter the Golden Eagle competition—and win!—inspiring female eagle hunters for years to come. This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was produced by Elena Favilli, Joy Fowlkes, and Meg Murnane, with writing by Alexis Stratton and narration by Lowri Morgan. Jestine Ware edited all scripts and Janice Weaver fact-checked all scripts. Sound design and original theme music by Elettra Bargiacchi. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer. Special thanks to Clio McClure who coordinated all credit recordings and narrator donations. A big thank you to the whole Rebel Girls team that makes this podcast possible. Stay Rebel! [this episode originally aired on 7/8/2021]

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived where snowy peaks scraped the sky.
0:06.0	Her name was Aishlpan.
0:12.0	Ischelpan grew up on the Mongolian steps, and her house could be carried from place to place on the bed of a pickup truck.
0:21.6	Her family were Kazakh nomads and travelled with nature's rhythms
0:26.6	so their livestock could find the richest food in the warmer months
0:30.6	and the best shelter in the colder months.
0:34.6	For centuries, the Kazakh men had been training eagles to help them hunt.
0:40.3	They rode horses with an eagle balanced on their arms and brought foxes and hairs home to the women
0:46.3	who cooked the hairs and used the fox fur to make hats and other clothing to stay warm during the freezing winters.
0:55.0	For as long as she could remember,
0:58.0	Eishlpan had watched her father and brother
1:01.0	leave for the mountains to hunt.
1:04.0	Every time they returned, she could barely contain her excitement
1:09.0	when the silhouettes appeared on the horizon.
1:16.6	The horses, hats and eagles made them look like gods, visiting from another time.
1:26.0	Islpan stroked the eagle's soft feathers,
1:29.3	placed a hand on its chest,
1:31.5	and felt its small heart beating alongside her own.
1:35.8	Something in the eagle's dark eyes called to her.
1:40.0	She said to her.
1:55.5	The I'm Lowry Morgan, and this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls,
2:00.4	a fairy tale podcast about the rebel women who inspire us.
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