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What you got? Do you see this? This is what we have been looking for. This is a fresh

form. Oh wow, man, look at that. It's quite a fresh track of a snow leopard. How can you tell?

Oh, you see these tools and the ball. You see the counters here. They haven't melted yet.

Yeah, it's February 2020 and I'm hiking along a snowy ridge line overlooking a deep

gorge with National Geographic Explorer, Prasunji Yadav. I found another little cave up here.

We're in the remote spitty valley of northern India. It's sunny but below freezing and we're

trudging through calf deep snow surrounded by pristine white Himalayan peaks. Usually

on an assignment, my only equipment is a pin and a notebook. But now I'm gathering sound

for the podcast and I'm trying to keep my microphone cords stuffed in my jacket to prevent

it from freezing and breaking. I'm going to see if I can get up a little closer to these

blue sheep. I'm not a snow leopard shell. Maybe they won't mind. Meanwhile, Prasunji does

on a mission and he's laser focused on the ground. You have a bright sun up here and

the sun doesn't melt it. So my speculation is this is either last night or this morning.

Prasunji is used in navigating difficult environments as a wildlife photographer. He's worked

in months, soons, jungles, deserts and uninhabited islands. But this terrain is by far the most

extreme. First spitty is almost three miles above sea level. In a lusher born here, the

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