Kathleen's Reviews > Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia

Tom McCarthy has spent fifteen years studying endangered snow leopards, nearly invisible in their desert habitat and so elusive that although this expedition found plenty of scat in the high rocky scree in the mountains of Mongolia, where they searched, they never did see a leopard. Montgomery and Bishop, experienced science travelers, document their trek with terrific photographs and great descriptions of their companions, their challenging climbs, and their generous welcome by Mongolian hosts. Interspersed with stories of their travels are stories of Tom's previous encounters with the cat called the ghost of the mountain. The back matter includes advice to young conservationists, something about the language and about the Snow Leopard Trust and notes from both the author and the photographer as well as an index but no bibliography. Instead readers are directed to a website which does include a bibliography but doesn't mention the chapter in Pamela Turner's A Life in the Wild which describes the work of George Schaller, who introduced McCarthy to this work.