Read this Wildlife Art Journal article

It was my first morning in the field on my Artists for Conservation Flag Expedition to Mongolia. I had managed the last twenty yards up the rocky slope without having to stop, but it was a challenge to pull oxygen into my sea-level lungs. My Mongol guide, who was crouched down just below the ridge line, gestured at me to stay low. I crab-walked my last steps and kneeled beside him, trying not to gasp out loud. Slowly, camera in hand, I looked over the ridge and saw a large argali ram lying beneath an outcropping of rocks on the next slope over from us.

Sweet.  I took a couple of shots and leaned further out. Oh, my. Below the first one were nine more big rams in lovely morning light. I watched and photographed them for close to half an hour as they grazed their way up the hill on Mt. Baits in the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve.
Less than two hours before, I had taken what I found out later were the first-ever photographs of an argali swimming across a river. It was a great start to my expedition, to say the least. 
I’ve been to Mongolia four times—coming up, another five-week trip in July and August 2010).  There has also been  an Earthwatch project, “Mongolian Argali”, in spring of 2005; custom itineraries in the fall of 2006 and 2008; and the 9th Artists for Conservation Flag Expedition in July of 2009, during which I visited three...