It started out as a chamois and tahr hunt but turned into a matter of life and death. Daryl Crimp relates Rob and Ben Dines’s battle with the elements on New Zealand’s west coast. The Hughes 500 flared, pivoted on…
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Time travelling tahr
Most tahr hunters head to New Zealand, where the species was introduced in 1904. Instead, Jens Kjaer Knudsen travels to where the species has always resided: the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal. Thomas Nissen reports…
Tahrmageddon
New Zealand has just come close to a cataclysmic mass cull of its tahr herd. Byron Pace uncovers how these plans came about and how they were stopped at the last minute
Tagged with: conservation, cull plan, environment, grazers, Mount Cook, New Zealand, NZ Tahr Foundation, tahr, tahr control, Westland National Parks
Posted in Conservation, Features
Posted in Conservation, Features
The tahr before the storm
Hunting with his son, Daryl Crimp faces a race against time to get into an old tahr bull before the unforgiving weather closes in
Tagged with: camp, cull, game management, hunting, mountains, New Zealand, snow, Southern Alps, steep terrain, tahr, winter
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
The drive to hunt
If you want to see what a country’s like on the surface, go as a tourist. If you want to see what it is really like, go and hunt there.
Tagged with: golden mahseer, Himalayas, hunting, Nepal, pilgrimage, rifle, tahr, travel
Posted in Features, Viewpoint
Posted in Features, Viewpoint
How to hunt and survive in the mountains
Tagged with: Alps, Altai, conditioning, Himalayas, hunting, ibex, Jens Kjaer Knudsen, mountain, Rockies, sheep, tahr, thomas nissen
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
