I would think that outside the US no-one would even consider giving the temp in Fahrenheit.
What I liked reading was the idea that the entirety of the Mongolian tradition rests upon this generation: that they are self-aware enough to realize change is coming but that they can control it.
So here this 13 year old girl is given an opportunity to become someone that no female has even had the chance to be in her culture. She breaks the ice for others while maintaining a cultural resource.
And we get the opportunity to learn about it all. This is one of the reasons I tend to default to happy / optimistic. The world is in turmoil and is undergoing change (as it always has been) but today we have been granted a window into the lives and actions of man far wider than ever before, and the overbearing weight of humanity is helping shape a better future.
Ashol-Pan is the daughter of a celebrated hunter. It would have been easy, and even reasonable for him to declare that ‘the tradition of hunting does not include women’. But he didn’t. Was perhaps his own world view shaped by a larger understanding of equality? Was it just that her father was himself progressive in thought?
Sure there is still plenty to worry about, but when you strip away the blinders and allow people to think for themselves good things happen more often than not. And this lovely story is an example of it.
Lots of older British people still think in F, folk my age (mid-40s) are often bilingual in F and C, and youngsters are more solidly C. Our newspaper often use F when reporting high temperatures and C when reporting low ones.
In the wild they live 20-35 years (varies with population and environment). Record in captivity is 46 years according to Wikipedia. The usually don’t breed until age 5-7. A 13 year old eagle is in the prime of life.
Is it just me, or does that third photo seem to be Photoshopped? The other photos look fine, but there is something “off” about the third pic. She seems to have been composited onto that background.
A correction has been added to that page today. Three of the photographs are not of the girl but of a couple of male apprentice eagle hunters. It looks to me like they’d be the third, fourth and fifth photos. Doesn’t ruin the story or the photographs for me, though.