Hunting The World's Mountains
In "The Story Of A Ram" (pages 108-119 of Volume 1), Harold Frank Wallace admires the beauty of British Columbia's rugged wilderness, mountains, and sky while pursuing a bighorn ram; at the end, the ram escapes, and Wallace states his desire that the ram continues to survive in the magnificent land and finds the same peace that came to him from the exhilarating experience. In "How We Fared In The Yukon Mountains" (pages 156-171 of Volume 1), Frederick Courtney Selous states his view that all the wild sheep of northwestern North America will be found to be more related to Ovis nivicola of Kamchatka than to the Rocky Mountain bighorn, and later on a September night, Selous stares up in wonder at a great arc of white light stretching across the northern sky that "lit up the snow-covered mountains around our camp like a gigantic searchlight" and the constantly spreading and contracting broad white lanes of light that were never still for a moment. In "Lord Of The Pinnacles" (pages 401-429 of Volume 1), Jack O'Connor has the amazing experience of watching a bighorn ram jump off a cliff seemingly to its death, and after realizing the ram had safely bounded down hundreds of feet by using slight ledges, O'Connor looks up to see the ram now on top of another cliff five hundred yards away looking back at him. In "The Ibex Of Sha-Ping" (pages 255-264 of Volume 2), L.B. Rundall writes from the perspective of an ibex, who "outwitted the one white man who came to hunt in the valley." In "My Hunt For The Rams Of Shangri-La" (pages 296-311 of Volume 2), Elgin Gates sees the tremendous sight of sixty-five long-horned Ovis poli rams in their thick winter coats walking over a ridge toward him in the snow of central Asia. In "On The Sino-Mongolian Frontier" (pages 377-396 of Volume 2), W. Douglas Burden pursues a roe buck and walks to the top of a ridge to suddenly see "in unbelieving wonder the Great Wall of China crawling serpent-like up and down the ridges and into the distance as far as the eye could see."
