“We learned that the mother had made a yak kill on the other side of the mountain,” Indian adventurer Ekta Marda told The Epoch Times. “So we decided to pitch a tent and try to track its movements.”
The 36-year-old photographer from Mumbai was on the scout for an elusive mountain predator, known regionally as the “ghost cat” or more commonly as the snow leopard.
It was March in 2018, and Ekta and her team had been waiting for the beautiful feline to appear for those three days while she tended her meal. “Every day, we would hike for five to seven kilometers back and forth in the snow,” she said. “And finally on the fourth day, the mother leopard came out of its hiding through the mountain crevices when I was fortunate enough to capture her.”…