Joining The Ancient Club Of Ibex Hunters In Spain

Joining The Ancient Club Of Ibex Hunters In Spain

by | Dec 9, 2019

A Beceite ibex stood atop an Iberian cliff across the canyon from us, its improbably long horns bowed against its rocky homeland. This was nothing new. That ram’s ancestors had posed on the same ledge while Hannibal’s elephants were lumbering through this region 2,200...
In Pursuit of the Beceite Ibex

In Pursuit of the Beceite Ibex

by | Dec 17, 2018

Slowly negotiating our way over the side of a dangerously steep, boulder-ridden mountain, we spied a herd of ibex in the distance, feeding on the same slope. With daylight fading on a dangerously rocky slope in the Beceite Mountains of Spain, pessimism ran rampant in...