Snow Leopards
Snow Leopard to Premiere on Nat Geo Wild!
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/big-cat-week/episodes/snow-leopard-of-afghanistan/ Snow Leopard, which I shot for in Afghanistan, will be premiering in December! I’ll be in Tanzania and unable to watch, but you should!! So excited! Daniel
Farewell to the Wakhan
Backdated to June 6 Well, our field days are spent and unfortunately, what one trap did in six hours thirteen could not do in over a week. We have no more captures to report, and the time has come to … Continue reading
Tractor with an Attitude
Backdated to June 5 Our last day at camp in the valley, and it was not going to let us go down easy. As if things weren’t wild enough out here – this morning we got a call from Hussein … Continue reading
The Wakhi People
Backdated to June 4 So I’ve been begging Tony to let me go downvalley and interview local Wakhis and today he consented – it is somewhat tangential to our core story, but I really think it will be valuable to … Continue reading
Tracking Paliwan
Backdated: May 30-June 3 2012 Our GPS tracking of Paliwan is working and we can tell he’s moved far enough up the valley not to be in danger of a re-capture, so the traps are starting to go up in … Continue reading
Paliwan
Backdated: May 29 2012 With the collaring finished and the animal released, we gave Hussein Ali, whose incredible expertise of the area and snow leopards made the capture possible, the honor of naming our cat. He thought about it for … Continue reading
Capture!
Backdated: May 27 – 28, 2012 Tony, Boone and I at a camera trap up the valley. This is an amazing day – and the more for starting as a pretty unremarkable, even frustrating one. It turns out that our … Continue reading
Good Snares and Bad News
It was supposed to be a field day. We visited a nearby construction project and the head builder agreed to let us bend some rebar to use as ground anchors for the traps – one of our major missing pieces. … Continue reading
Tracking the Leopard
Man, am I dirty. Today we trekked for 7 hours up a glacier valley, searching out trap sites. Hussein Ali lead the way, followed by Boone, Goodrich, Dave and Anthony. Tony and I were on camera, and working hard. Sprinting … Continue reading
Into the Wahkan
Time to breathe a sigh of relief. The Wahkan corridor is vast, dusty, beautiful, the Hindu Kush mountains rising up to 25,000feet around us. It’s peaceful, it’s quiet, it’s safe. And that’s a welcome change from Faizabad. 4AM and I … Continue reading
About Daniel Byers
Daniel Byers is an expedition photographer and filmmaker, as well as an experienced climber, mountaineer, and diver. He has worked for National Geographic, the BBC, and USAID, crossing many of the world's extreme landscapes in an effort to tell stories that need to be told.