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Award of Excellence: Dreams
March 8, 2017
Bor Dameli Shokan, 13, is one of a handful Kazakh girls in Mongolia that are practicing the art of hunting with eagles.
In western Altai Mountains she move around with her nomad family and their cattles between different places to live, eight times each year.
When Bor was born as the second girl in the family with no older brothers, she got to do the mens shores from an early age. Among duties of taking care of the animals, she've always had a good hand and fascination in her father and grandfathers eagles.
Since the male tradition always been taught from father to son, she never thought she could be a eagle hunter herself. But when a girl just two years older, Aisholpan Nurgaiv, participated and won the biggest eagle hunting competition there is and became famous, Bor finally saw the opportunity to start hunting herself.