KEITH MELLNICK

P H O T O G R A P H Y

MONGOLIAN EAGLE

HUNTER

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Ethnic Kazakh, 73-year-old Orisbai Shatirbai has been hunting with golden eagles in Mongolia since he was 15. Nomadic herders for three seasons, his family hunkers down for the winter in a house not far from the village of Tolbo, where these images were taken.