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This 15-Year-Old Mongolian Eagle Huntress Deserves to Be the Next Elsa From Frozen

by Anna Silman

Nurgaiv Rys, a nomadic eagle hunter from the remote Altai mountains in Mongolia, didn't set out to take on the Kazakh patriarchy. When his 13-year-old daughter, Aisholpan, asked if she could hunt with golden eagles " a practice passed down through the men in their family for 12 generations " ... More »

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 9:43am on November 4, 2016