Born to Ride: Horses and Heritage in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains
Claire Thomas is an award-winning photojournalist, fine art photographer, and writer Nine-year-old Dastan, the son of a Kazakh eagle hunter, rode his pony beside me, cantering effortlessly without a saddle. He laughed at my attempts to pat my pony’s neck – a gesture the animal was clearly unaccustomed to. For Dastan, horses are not objects…