1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:12,201 --> 00:01:13,961 They went over that pass. 4 00:01:14,441 --> 00:01:15,361 See over there? 5 00:01:15,641 --> 00:01:17,001 They went that way. 6 00:01:17,921 --> 00:01:19,321 It's getting late. 7 00:01:19,961 --> 00:01:22,481 And dark. I don't see them coming back. 8 00:01:22,761 --> 00:01:23,721 True. 9 00:01:24,361 --> 00:01:26,401 It was the same last year. 10 00:01:26,681 --> 00:01:29,481 There was a pack of 8 wolves at the summit. 11 00:01:30,281 --> 00:01:31,961 He went to photograph them. 12 00:01:32,241 --> 00:01:33,681 At nightfall. 13 00:01:34,441 --> 00:01:36,481 I saw him up there. 14 00:01:36,841 --> 00:01:38,641 The wolves were following him. 15 00:01:38,921 --> 00:01:40,881 I thought they'd gobble him up, 16 00:01:41,161 --> 00:01:44,161 but after one night with them, he came back. 17 00:01:44,441 --> 00:01:47,241 - Really? - I've no idea what they're doing. 18 00:01:47,561 --> 00:01:50,201 - Hopefully, they won't be too long. - Worries me too. 19 00:06:46,001 --> 00:06:48,321 Pantholops hodgsonii. 20 00:06:48,961 --> 00:06:50,201 The Tibetan antelope. 21 00:06:52,041 --> 00:06:53,001 Jeez! 22 00:06:54,001 --> 00:06:55,921 - Sylvain, look at them run. - Fantastic! 23 00:06:56,201 --> 00:06:57,961 - Immense! - The three of them. 24 00:07:01,401 --> 00:07:05,281 - See the cloud of dust. Magnificent! - Clouds of dust! 25 00:07:05,561 --> 00:07:08,561 One slammed on the brakes, the others kept going. 26 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:16,481 Barely out of breath, after a sprint at 5,000 meters. 27 00:07:18,081 --> 00:07:20,441 It's impressive. The speed of them! 28 00:07:28,241 --> 00:07:30,121 I'd met him one Easter, 29 00:07:31,161 --> 00:07:34,241 after a screening of his film about the Ethiopian wolf. 30 00:07:38,721 --> 00:07:41,321 Our friendship grew out of my admiration 31 00:07:41,601 --> 00:07:42,521 for the artist. 32 00:07:45,001 --> 00:07:47,881 He talked to me about life as a wildlife photographer 33 00:07:48,161 --> 00:07:50,561 and explained the technique of the blind. 34 00:07:53,961 --> 00:07:56,361 It was a fragile and refined art 35 00:07:57,361 --> 00:08:00,241 that involves adopting camouflage to wait for an animal 36 00:08:00,521 --> 00:08:02,641 that is never guaranteed to come. 37 00:08:28,321 --> 00:08:30,841 He invited me to go with him to Tibet 38 00:08:31,281 --> 00:08:34,361 to pursue a being I thought had disappeared… 39 00:08:36,001 --> 00:08:37,281 The snow leopard. 40 00:08:43,841 --> 00:08:45,761 For me, a dream. 41 00:08:46,441 --> 00:08:48,601 For him, a rendezvous. 42 00:09:11,841 --> 00:09:14,241 Then we walk, we walk, we walk… 43 00:09:14,521 --> 00:09:16,481 Know what? There could be fabulous. 44 00:09:16,761 --> 00:09:17,841 We walk, we walk… 45 00:09:18,321 --> 00:09:20,041 Right? To pitch camp. 46 00:09:20,321 --> 00:09:23,281 - I see grass and think animals. - There's a pass there. 47 00:09:23,561 --> 00:09:25,481 - Let's see. - It's a climb. 48 00:09:25,761 --> 00:09:27,721 It climbs, then there's a pass. 49 00:09:28,081 --> 00:09:29,441 Right. A nice hike maybe. 50 00:09:29,721 --> 00:09:31,441 Here could be good… 51 00:09:31,721 --> 00:09:34,441 - There are animals? - Yeah, judging by the grassy spots. 52 00:09:34,721 --> 00:09:37,041 So let's take a look over there. 53 00:09:37,321 --> 00:09:38,761 Maybe more aesthetic. 54 00:09:39,041 --> 00:09:41,801 There's nothing… Nothing in the way. 55 00:09:42,081 --> 00:09:45,161 Trouble is, it's high up. 56 00:09:45,441 --> 00:09:47,281 Yup, that's high. 57 00:10:04,401 --> 00:10:06,841 Careful, not too loud on the climb. 58 00:10:07,161 --> 00:10:08,961 - With your poles. - Sorry, yeah. 59 00:10:09,441 --> 00:10:10,881 Don't push too hard. 60 00:10:51,441 --> 00:10:53,561 What was my comrade looking for? 61 00:10:54,081 --> 00:10:56,761 Rummaging among the rocks with his binoculars. 62 00:11:01,521 --> 00:11:04,681 So not everything was created for the human eye? 63 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:55,401 Munier had made the blind both his aesthetic and philosophy. 64 00:11:56,081 --> 00:11:59,881 He had waited for the appearance of arctic wolves on Ellesmere, 65 00:12:00,161 --> 00:12:03,681 snowy owls in the Arctic, and reindeer in Siberia. 66 00:12:06,201 --> 00:12:09,281 He stationed himself in the snow, day and night, 67 00:12:09,561 --> 00:12:11,041 keeping faith in his principle. 68 00:12:12,481 --> 00:12:13,841 Scorn pain, 69 00:12:14,881 --> 00:12:15,921 ignore time, 70 00:12:17,161 --> 00:12:18,481 and never doubt 71 00:12:18,761 --> 00:12:20,481 you'll get what you desire. 72 00:13:05,361 --> 00:13:08,321 Let's stop here. You'll see, the view's something else. 73 00:13:08,601 --> 00:13:10,201 Then we crawl forward? 74 00:13:10,641 --> 00:13:12,601 Yeah, I'll put my pack down, 75 00:13:13,281 --> 00:13:15,641 then we'll crawl forward for a look. 76 00:14:01,241 --> 00:14:02,281 The sun's warm. 77 00:14:15,401 --> 00:14:19,641 Like there's nothing but silence, but there are lots of things that… 78 00:14:20,561 --> 00:14:22,601 Hopes fulfilled or not… 79 00:14:22,881 --> 00:14:26,001 The leopard's the grail but there are many other species. 80 00:14:28,361 --> 00:14:30,721 We really need to find a spot to sleep. 81 00:14:31,001 --> 00:14:32,721 Here, to experience it all. 82 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:35,201 So we don't waste time climbing. 83 00:14:35,481 --> 00:14:38,841 We need to be where it's at to get dusk, to get dawn. 84 00:14:45,961 --> 00:14:47,961 I could stay here for hours. 85 00:14:48,241 --> 00:14:49,561 Hours and hours. 86 00:14:51,601 --> 00:14:54,001 What I like is all these different planes. 87 00:14:54,281 --> 00:14:56,441 As a spot for a blind, it's ideal. 88 00:14:57,761 --> 00:14:58,921 And for leopards. 89 00:14:59,201 --> 00:15:02,761 With some relief and flat stretches of pasture for… 90 00:15:03,041 --> 00:15:04,441 - Bharals. - Herbivores. 91 00:15:06,241 --> 00:15:08,201 So, relief with crags. 92 00:15:09,401 --> 00:15:10,441 And plateaux. 93 00:15:10,721 --> 00:15:12,521 Exactly. Alternating between… 94 00:15:13,921 --> 00:15:16,681 Between prairies and rocky outcrops. 95 00:15:17,801 --> 00:15:19,601 Those little canyons, there… 96 00:15:20,361 --> 00:15:21,721 Perfect for them. 97 00:15:30,401 --> 00:15:31,601 So beautiful! 98 00:15:32,281 --> 00:15:35,361 Full-on punctuation. It's a line of writing, look. 99 00:15:41,481 --> 00:15:44,361 As soon as we move, we're spotted by the bharals. 100 00:15:45,081 --> 00:15:46,241 Unbelievable! 101 00:15:47,081 --> 00:15:48,641 So imagine a leopard… 102 00:15:50,721 --> 00:15:51,761 Yeah. 103 00:16:07,561 --> 00:16:09,761 It's going to be super complicated. 104 00:16:10,321 --> 00:16:12,481 But being here, all we saw this morning, 105 00:16:12,761 --> 00:16:15,321 everything slowly waking up after a cold night… 106 00:16:15,721 --> 00:16:16,681 It's magic. 107 00:18:19,041 --> 00:18:21,081 When you go back to France, 108 00:18:21,361 --> 00:18:25,441 and you begin to reconnect with the news, 109 00:18:25,921 --> 00:18:28,921 with the whole puppet show of humanity, 110 00:18:29,641 --> 00:18:31,881 you must find it both absurd… 111 00:18:32,801 --> 00:18:33,961 and horrifying. 112 00:18:35,801 --> 00:18:38,561 For sure, going home is sometimes complicated. 113 00:18:39,361 --> 00:18:41,641 But I know now, after 20 years or so. 114 00:18:41,921 --> 00:18:44,481 Places like this are a breath of fresh air. 115 00:18:44,761 --> 00:18:46,281 A way of escaping, I guess. 116 00:18:46,561 --> 00:18:48,841 You're going to see nature that… 117 00:18:50,161 --> 00:18:52,441 That hasn't been upended or… 118 00:18:54,521 --> 00:18:58,401 That humans haven't yet got their claws into. 119 00:19:00,201 --> 00:19:03,161 Around my house, it's amazing, in just 20 years, 120 00:19:03,441 --> 00:19:05,961 there's been zero respect for life. 121 00:19:06,241 --> 00:19:10,401 Not for a tree, a majestic oak, or the hedges in a field… 122 00:19:10,681 --> 00:19:13,641 I've seen everything deteriorate, and that's… 123 00:19:14,841 --> 00:19:16,481 It's visceral, it's weird, 124 00:19:16,761 --> 00:19:20,001 when you grew up in that environment, as a kid, 125 00:19:20,281 --> 00:19:23,801 building blinds, being there, feeling powerful emotions… 126 00:19:24,081 --> 00:19:25,441 It made me who I am. 127 00:19:25,721 --> 00:19:27,681 And when you see that world… 128 00:19:28,361 --> 00:19:30,081 going to… 129 00:19:30,841 --> 00:19:32,441 How can I put it? 130 00:19:33,921 --> 00:19:36,641 Not going to pot. What's the word? 131 00:19:37,321 --> 00:19:38,321 Fall into decay? 132 00:19:38,601 --> 00:19:39,881 Falling into decay. 133 00:19:40,841 --> 00:19:44,401 Then, on the inside, it really hurts. 134 00:19:45,441 --> 00:19:50,001 I need Kamchatka, the Far North, with barely any human presence, 135 00:19:50,281 --> 00:19:52,361 or only nomads, like here, 136 00:19:53,081 --> 00:19:54,361 who live in harmony. 137 00:19:55,241 --> 00:19:56,641 That's the word for it. 138 00:19:57,161 --> 00:19:58,561 Which we have lost. 139 00:20:28,441 --> 00:20:31,281 That's a feel-good landscape, right? 140 00:20:32,441 --> 00:20:36,121 Yes, I don't see how an artist, a painter, let's say, 141 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:39,481 might not be touched by these forms, 142 00:20:39,761 --> 00:20:41,481 by the beauty of the animals. 143 00:20:41,921 --> 00:20:45,481 The perfectly integrated beauty of animals in the landscape. 144 00:20:50,281 --> 00:20:52,121 I'm sometimes criticized 145 00:20:52,561 --> 00:20:54,881 for setting out to photograph 146 00:20:55,761 --> 00:20:59,121 all the pretty stuff and skipping anything ugly. 147 00:20:59,921 --> 00:21:03,441 Fair enough, my approach isn't photojournalism, 148 00:21:04,041 --> 00:21:05,881 showing the flaws in nature. 149 00:21:06,521 --> 00:21:07,601 It's a real choice. 150 00:21:07,881 --> 00:21:09,201 Delve into despair. 151 00:21:09,481 --> 00:21:10,961 Or celebrate 152 00:21:11,841 --> 00:21:12,761 beauty. 153 00:21:51,281 --> 00:21:54,641 That morning, Munier wanted to show me the wild yaks. 154 00:21:55,201 --> 00:21:56,721 He revered those beasts, 155 00:21:57,001 --> 00:21:59,721 talking about them in his distinctive murmur. 156 00:22:06,361 --> 00:22:08,321 See? They're all headed east. 157 00:22:11,681 --> 00:22:13,401 Let's try to get closer. 158 00:22:44,441 --> 00:22:47,481 The difficulty in getting close is unbelievable. 159 00:22:48,041 --> 00:22:50,401 Especially when there's so many of them. 160 00:22:51,401 --> 00:22:53,641 They pick up your scent, they see you. 161 00:22:54,241 --> 00:22:58,481 It's not easy, finding hiding places in the rocks and relief. 162 00:22:59,721 --> 00:23:04,201 And as soon as a female sees you, they all take off. 163 00:23:06,721 --> 00:23:09,721 Conversely, a lone male can be a bit dangerous. 164 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:13,281 Especially in the rutting season, which explains those loud… 165 00:23:14,761 --> 00:23:15,961 Really deep. 166 00:23:20,921 --> 00:23:23,361 They're territorial at this time of year. 167 00:23:23,801 --> 00:23:24,841 They can charge. 168 00:25:00,041 --> 00:25:01,641 They were totems, 169 00:25:02,401 --> 00:25:04,361 sent down through the ages. 170 00:25:06,281 --> 00:25:07,601 They were heavy, 171 00:25:08,721 --> 00:25:09,801 powerful, 172 00:25:11,321 --> 00:25:12,241 silent, 173 00:25:14,041 --> 00:25:15,081 immobile. 174 00:25:15,681 --> 00:25:17,001 So very unmodern. 175 00:25:19,081 --> 00:25:21,441 They were vessels of suspended time. 176 00:25:23,001 --> 00:25:24,521 Prehistory wept 177 00:25:25,201 --> 00:25:27,441 and each tear was a yak. 178 00:25:40,601 --> 00:25:41,641 Hear the yaks? 179 00:25:54,241 --> 00:25:56,521 That rocky area up there. 180 00:25:57,641 --> 00:26:00,921 That's good terrain for the leopard. We should go. 181 00:26:01,441 --> 00:26:02,521 Go take a look. 182 00:26:09,241 --> 00:26:10,241 Leopard. 183 00:26:11,561 --> 00:26:13,321 The name had the ring of regalia. 184 00:26:15,641 --> 00:26:18,121 Nothing promised an encounter with one. 185 00:26:18,841 --> 00:26:21,121 The blind is a gamble. 186 00:26:22,321 --> 00:26:23,601 Go toward the animals. 187 00:26:23,881 --> 00:26:25,001 Risk failure. 188 00:26:26,321 --> 00:26:30,641 Some people take no umbrage but rather pleasure in waiting. 189 00:26:31,561 --> 00:26:34,321 Alas, I am not one of those. 190 00:26:35,241 --> 00:26:37,481 I was keen to see the animal. 191 00:26:38,441 --> 00:26:40,481 Even if, out of politeness, 192 00:26:40,961 --> 00:26:43,401 I did not confess my impatience to Munier. 193 00:27:09,081 --> 00:27:11,441 Front paw, front paw, back paw, back paw. 194 00:27:12,201 --> 00:27:14,441 Jeepers, they're magnificent. Practically… 195 00:27:15,081 --> 00:27:16,201 Practically fossilized. 196 00:27:16,481 --> 00:27:19,801 Could be really old prints, given it never rains. 197 00:27:28,961 --> 00:27:30,641 What fascinates me about you 198 00:27:30,921 --> 00:27:34,081 is the in-depth knowledge you have 199 00:27:34,801 --> 00:27:36,801 of all these forms of life. 200 00:27:38,241 --> 00:27:39,641 And your interest in them. 201 00:27:40,281 --> 00:27:41,201 Your passion. 202 00:27:41,681 --> 00:27:44,361 It gives me pause when I see you 203 00:27:45,681 --> 00:27:48,361 in action amid these natural obstacles, 204 00:27:48,641 --> 00:27:52,201 detecting each movement, taking an interest in each bird, 205 00:27:52,601 --> 00:27:54,281 checking each animal track, 206 00:27:54,561 --> 00:27:56,641 reveling in each encounter. 207 00:27:57,401 --> 00:27:58,761 Witnessing all that 208 00:27:59,281 --> 00:28:02,361 brings me back to the unbelievable indifference 209 00:28:02,641 --> 00:28:06,081 with which I journeyed through landscapes for years, 210 00:28:06,361 --> 00:28:09,121 without realizing they were so inhabited. 211 00:28:10,641 --> 00:28:13,521 We are so indifferent to the world around us. 212 00:28:14,481 --> 00:28:16,001 Hardly aware of it. 213 00:28:45,921 --> 00:28:50,241 Hours of vigil were the antithesis of my globetrotting carnival. 214 00:28:51,721 --> 00:28:55,921 Until now, I foraged for passions at random 215 00:28:56,481 --> 00:28:58,561 and lived the hasty lifestyle. 216 00:28:59,601 --> 00:29:01,401 Always on my travels, 217 00:29:01,681 --> 00:29:02,961 I jumped off planes 218 00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:04,801 and onto trains, 219 00:29:05,081 --> 00:29:07,841 yammering in one talk after another 220 00:29:08,521 --> 00:29:12,001 that humans should invest in being less agitated. 221 00:29:24,521 --> 00:29:26,761 Around 4 a.m., we start crossing… 222 00:29:27,041 --> 00:29:30,881 Yes, superbly backlit by the sun, facing due west. 223 00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:33,241 The wind's looking good. 224 00:30:11,921 --> 00:30:13,201 Just imagine… 225 00:30:13,881 --> 00:30:15,561 It could be absolutely anywhere. 226 00:30:15,841 --> 00:30:17,161 If you're not committed, 227 00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:20,481 sweeping with the telescope in a disciplined manner… 228 00:30:20,761 --> 00:30:22,001 Each rock… 229 00:30:24,201 --> 00:30:25,601 The hidden part of the world. 230 00:30:25,881 --> 00:30:26,961 Yes, exactly. 231 00:30:33,481 --> 00:30:37,761 For sure, sometimes, like yesterday or the day before… 232 00:30:38,881 --> 00:30:40,761 It's not very encouraging. 233 00:31:06,081 --> 00:31:08,321 You need a good inner life, though. 234 00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:10,801 Working a blind on your own. 235 00:31:59,201 --> 00:32:02,001 A blind like this over two days 236 00:32:04,721 --> 00:32:07,641 is fantastic for meditating and thinking. 237 00:32:08,321 --> 00:32:12,601 But is it like insomnia, you wind up hatching dark thoughts? 238 00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:14,841 You know, at night. 239 00:32:15,481 --> 00:32:16,401 No. 240 00:32:16,681 --> 00:32:19,441 Motionless, alone, peering at rocks. 241 00:32:20,081 --> 00:32:23,321 Surely your noggin ends up in overdrive, no? 242 00:32:24,521 --> 00:32:25,721 Truly not. 243 00:32:26,521 --> 00:32:27,481 Truly not. 244 00:32:27,841 --> 00:32:28,801 It's nuts. 245 00:32:29,081 --> 00:32:32,281 That's good. So you feel like you're where you should be. 246 00:32:32,561 --> 00:32:34,001 Yes, completely. 247 00:32:39,001 --> 00:32:40,921 As soon as I'm in a city, 248 00:32:41,201 --> 00:32:42,521 I'm a different man. 249 00:32:43,081 --> 00:32:44,721 As if I'm playing a role. 250 00:32:45,481 --> 00:32:47,521 In nature, on the other hand, 251 00:32:49,001 --> 00:32:51,321 it's just you. You can't cheat. 252 00:32:57,201 --> 00:33:00,841 It's definitely a reality. I block out all that. 253 00:33:02,721 --> 00:33:05,241 All the commotion people make. 254 00:33:14,921 --> 00:33:16,881 Well, that little cloud gave us… 255 00:33:17,241 --> 00:33:19,561 a frosting on the landscape. Cool. 256 00:33:20,841 --> 00:33:23,001 Looks like it's lifting now. 257 00:33:31,041 --> 00:33:33,241 Get my nose back in the scope. 258 00:33:34,281 --> 00:33:35,201 Isn't it cool here? 259 00:33:35,481 --> 00:33:36,641 Isn't it cool here? 260 00:33:38,321 --> 00:33:40,161 Gonna put my heated socks on. 261 00:33:41,641 --> 00:33:44,201 Feet are always the big issue in a blind. 262 00:33:48,481 --> 00:33:50,441 We peered at landscapes 263 00:33:50,721 --> 00:33:52,761 with no certainty of them yielding fruit. 264 00:33:53,561 --> 00:33:55,561 We waited for a shadow in silence, 265 00:33:56,081 --> 00:33:57,121 facing the void. 266 00:33:57,961 --> 00:34:01,121 It was the opposite of a selling proposition. 267 00:34:03,681 --> 00:34:06,841 The right-here-right-now of modern epilepsy 268 00:34:07,521 --> 00:34:11,681 ran into the most-likely-nothing-ever of the blind. 269 00:34:32,241 --> 00:34:34,121 Turn your head a touch to the right, 270 00:34:34,401 --> 00:34:37,881 and you'll see a little accentor, on the yellow lichen. 271 00:34:39,401 --> 00:34:41,121 All right, it's gone. 272 00:34:41,721 --> 00:34:42,681 And look! 273 00:34:43,161 --> 00:34:44,961 A saker falcon on its spike. 274 00:34:47,441 --> 00:34:49,121 The art of camouflage. 275 00:34:53,321 --> 00:34:56,081 I've been known to photograph it without realizing. 276 00:34:56,361 --> 00:34:58,001 - As in? - One time, a leopard… 277 00:34:58,521 --> 00:34:59,961 I spot it early morning. 278 00:35:00,721 --> 00:35:04,521 It disappears into a sort of rocky corrie. 279 00:35:05,241 --> 00:35:07,241 It can't escape me, it's there. 280 00:35:07,521 --> 00:35:10,761 Then nothing. I wait for hours, until nightfall. 281 00:35:11,041 --> 00:35:11,961 Nothing doing. 282 00:35:12,241 --> 00:35:15,721 And a falcon comes along, perches on a rocky spur… 283 00:35:16,321 --> 00:35:18,041 I'm using a big zoom, an 800 mm, 284 00:35:18,321 --> 00:35:20,681 so I pivot slowly to get the shot 285 00:35:20,961 --> 00:35:22,361 and I go back to camp. 286 00:35:23,081 --> 00:35:24,441 Two, three months later, 287 00:35:24,721 --> 00:35:26,561 looking through my images, 288 00:35:27,041 --> 00:35:30,041 on the computer screen, I bring up the falcon… 289 00:35:30,801 --> 00:35:32,001 and I got a shock. 290 00:35:33,161 --> 00:35:35,681 Along the contour of the rock, behind it… 291 00:35:36,441 --> 00:35:39,481 The leopard's head. It was there, watching me. 292 00:35:39,761 --> 00:35:42,001 - Without your knowing? - Without my knowing. 293 00:36:08,401 --> 00:36:10,841 Just being here with it, among these crags 294 00:36:11,121 --> 00:36:12,201 and labyrinths, 295 00:36:12,481 --> 00:36:15,761 knowing it's there, on the prowl or at rest, 296 00:36:16,281 --> 00:36:18,241 that alone is a marvelous moment. 297 00:36:58,361 --> 00:37:00,961 Your Thermos is filled up, Sylvain? 298 00:37:05,721 --> 00:37:07,001 It's just thrilling. 299 00:37:08,321 --> 00:37:10,441 Something I realized in the last few days, 300 00:37:10,721 --> 00:37:14,601 I traveled all over these places without seeing a thing. 301 00:37:15,921 --> 00:37:19,201 Not a thing! Now I think, I'm 45 years old, 302 00:37:19,481 --> 00:37:21,481 and so many animals saw me! 303 00:37:22,721 --> 00:37:25,201 For sure. When I see all your… 304 00:37:25,481 --> 00:37:28,681 - We get spotted a lot. - Yeah, that's for sure. 305 00:37:29,161 --> 00:37:31,201 Without our knowing. Unbelievable! 306 00:37:31,961 --> 00:37:34,961 It's learning to read a landscape differently. 307 00:37:35,241 --> 00:37:36,641 Big Brother is watching you. 308 00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:38,321 Except it's the animals. 309 00:37:38,601 --> 00:37:39,681 Yup, the animals… 310 00:37:40,201 --> 00:37:41,401 Everywhere, all the time! 311 00:37:41,681 --> 00:37:45,281 What annoys me is, we're so not animal anymore. 312 00:37:46,241 --> 00:37:47,641 There's a disconnect. 313 00:37:47,921 --> 00:37:49,841 We're nature's numbskulls. 314 00:37:50,481 --> 00:37:52,681 Up here, for us, it's a struggle. 315 00:37:53,041 --> 00:37:55,561 At 5,000 meters, we're bumblers. 316 00:37:56,241 --> 00:38:00,121 We have no sense of observation, no sense of smell. All our senses… 317 00:38:00,801 --> 00:38:03,281 They've fallen into disuse. 318 00:38:05,561 --> 00:38:07,681 I dream of being invisible. 319 00:38:08,001 --> 00:38:10,481 We try to camouflage but we're no good at it. 320 00:38:10,761 --> 00:38:11,681 Being invisible? 321 00:38:17,761 --> 00:38:20,161 I've traveled a lot, I was spotted, 322 00:38:20,481 --> 00:38:22,121 and I had no clue. 323 00:38:24,481 --> 00:38:25,801 I had no clue. 324 00:38:30,241 --> 00:38:34,681 I've traveled a lot, I was watched, and I had no clue. 325 00:38:35,801 --> 00:38:37,361 That was my new psalm, 326 00:38:37,961 --> 00:38:40,321 which I mumbled Tibetan-style, 327 00:38:40,721 --> 00:38:42,001 droning away. 328 00:38:43,201 --> 00:38:44,521 It summed up my life. 329 00:38:45,401 --> 00:38:48,201 From now on, I'd know we meander 330 00:38:48,481 --> 00:38:51,761 before open eyes, in invisible faces. 331 00:40:14,641 --> 00:40:16,001 A Pallas's cat, 332 00:40:16,521 --> 00:40:18,401 otocolobus manul, 333 00:40:19,001 --> 00:40:22,681 pops up on a rocky spike with its hirsute head, 334 00:40:22,961 --> 00:40:24,401 syringe-canines, 335 00:40:25,041 --> 00:40:26,241 and yellow eyes, 336 00:40:26,801 --> 00:40:31,521 rectifying with a demonic glint its plushy cuddliness. 337 00:40:36,721 --> 00:40:40,521 Don't try to pet me or I'll leap at your throat, 338 00:40:41,281 --> 00:40:42,521 said its grimace. 339 00:41:06,161 --> 00:41:08,601 Munier enabled me to raise the veil 340 00:41:09,481 --> 00:41:12,801 to contemplate the wanderings of the princes of the Earth. 341 00:41:13,241 --> 00:41:15,961 I compensated for my former indifference 342 00:41:16,881 --> 00:41:20,081 by the twin exercise of attention and patience. 343 00:41:20,961 --> 00:41:22,561 Let's call it love. 344 00:43:12,161 --> 00:43:13,081 Fox! 345 00:43:14,241 --> 00:43:15,361 Tibetan fox! 346 00:43:16,401 --> 00:43:17,841 On a pika burrow. 347 00:43:34,481 --> 00:43:35,401 There! 348 00:43:35,721 --> 00:43:36,841 Got one! 349 00:43:39,561 --> 00:43:40,761 Impressive. 350 00:43:58,401 --> 00:44:01,001 Encountering an animal is rejuvenation. 351 00:44:03,001 --> 00:44:04,921 The eye captures a glimmer. 352 00:44:07,041 --> 00:44:08,561 The animal is a key. 353 00:44:09,081 --> 00:44:10,561 It opens a door. 354 00:44:11,561 --> 00:44:12,721 On the other side… 355 00:44:13,641 --> 00:44:14,841 The incommunicable. 356 00:45:06,961 --> 00:45:07,881 In his life, 357 00:45:08,241 --> 00:45:11,081 Munier had always wanted to take a look 358 00:45:11,361 --> 00:45:12,601 on the other side. 359 00:45:14,161 --> 00:45:15,481 We aimed for the summit, 360 00:45:15,761 --> 00:45:18,561 dominating the plateau at over 5,000 meters. 361 00:45:25,441 --> 00:45:28,721 There's always the hope that, on the other side, 362 00:45:29,001 --> 00:45:31,841 lies a whole new swath of freedom. 363 00:45:33,801 --> 00:45:36,161 A homeland for the leopards. 364 00:45:45,361 --> 00:45:46,281 Heck of a view! 365 00:45:47,041 --> 00:45:49,521 - Sorry? - It's a heck of a view. 366 00:45:51,321 --> 00:45:52,521 Well worth it. 367 00:46:06,801 --> 00:46:10,241 If we looked hard enough, areas of shadow emerged. 368 00:46:14,321 --> 00:46:16,041 Just open the right doors. 369 00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:19,721 In other words, find the right passes. 370 00:46:26,161 --> 00:46:27,681 And on the other side, 371 00:46:28,361 --> 00:46:30,881 it was a land of valleys and crests, 372 00:46:31,841 --> 00:46:33,201 whose human presence 373 00:46:33,481 --> 00:46:35,441 amounted to a few nomads, 374 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:37,521 pursued by the wind. 375 00:47:20,961 --> 00:47:22,481 A few bharals up there. 376 00:47:24,201 --> 00:47:27,841 Look how steep it is. The leopard can't go left or right. 377 00:47:28,121 --> 00:47:30,321 This is the only route, a kind of… 378 00:47:31,201 --> 00:47:32,121 A bottleneck. 379 00:48:30,121 --> 00:48:32,561 Fabulous! If it comes by, this is wonderful. 380 00:48:36,481 --> 00:48:40,001 I set video to one minute. If it comes from afar, we'll get 381 00:48:40,641 --> 00:48:42,121 the full approach. 382 00:48:44,401 --> 00:48:47,681 Conversely, if it comes this way, we'll get its pretty tail 383 00:48:48,281 --> 00:48:49,881 and watch it all the way out. 384 00:48:50,161 --> 00:48:51,361 Maybe two minutes. 385 00:48:53,041 --> 00:48:54,761 Let's leave it at one. 386 00:48:56,321 --> 00:48:57,681 Then, who knows, 387 00:48:57,961 --> 00:48:59,761 maybe it comes by once a week. 388 00:49:00,041 --> 00:49:01,441 We're in for a surprise. 389 00:50:06,721 --> 00:50:07,881 That's a bear. 390 00:50:08,521 --> 00:50:12,121 You can see it went down the valley to eat barley or wheat 391 00:50:12,401 --> 00:50:13,441 near the village. 392 00:50:13,801 --> 00:50:16,481 That's a bear, that size. No doubt about it. 393 00:50:17,361 --> 00:50:18,801 Over there, same deal. 394 00:50:19,441 --> 00:50:20,401 Bear! 395 00:50:22,721 --> 00:50:24,641 You can see it's polished here. 396 00:50:25,561 --> 00:50:26,641 By the animals. 397 00:50:28,161 --> 00:50:29,801 There's hair and fur. 398 00:50:31,961 --> 00:50:34,801 The animal was clearly concerned about home comforts. 399 00:50:35,081 --> 00:50:36,481 It pulled off moss. 400 00:50:37,601 --> 00:50:39,241 The moss from that wall. 401 00:50:40,121 --> 00:50:41,361 To line its bed. 402 00:50:43,601 --> 00:50:45,761 Hollowed out like this, could be… 403 00:50:46,041 --> 00:50:48,401 it's been a bear shelter for years. 404 00:50:48,681 --> 00:50:50,481 Hundreds of years even. 405 00:50:58,161 --> 00:51:00,961 - So that means it sleeps here? - Look up there. 406 00:51:02,801 --> 00:51:04,761 The whole palm of the plantigrade. 407 00:51:05,041 --> 00:51:06,921 Then it curled up here. 408 00:51:07,561 --> 00:51:09,361 It seems really fresh. 409 00:51:11,161 --> 00:51:12,081 First time 410 00:51:12,361 --> 00:51:14,401 I see bear tracks in Tibet. 411 00:51:14,681 --> 00:51:16,441 They're so discreet, I never saw any. 412 00:51:16,721 --> 00:51:18,681 The first reading of the world! 413 00:51:19,361 --> 00:51:21,241 That's the world's oldest profession. 414 00:51:21,601 --> 00:51:22,801 Reading tracks. 415 00:51:24,801 --> 00:51:26,121 It goes way back. 416 00:51:26,401 --> 00:51:29,521 In fact, you're not very evolved, in human terms. 417 00:51:29,801 --> 00:51:31,481 - Exactly. - The earliest stages. 418 00:51:32,001 --> 00:51:33,241 And proud of it. 419 00:51:36,801 --> 00:51:38,801 The cave bear! Look at this… 420 00:51:39,881 --> 00:51:41,681 It's a dream of mine to see 421 00:51:42,281 --> 00:51:44,321 the silhouette of a bear like that. 422 00:51:49,241 --> 00:51:50,321 And there… 423 00:51:50,601 --> 00:51:52,201 Looks like fox droppings. 424 00:51:52,481 --> 00:51:53,681 A Tibetan fox. 425 00:51:56,521 --> 00:51:59,041 - It's deep. - And well-used, see? 426 00:52:00,001 --> 00:52:01,721 It's completely polished. 427 00:52:04,241 --> 00:52:05,721 Check this out back here. 428 00:52:06,121 --> 00:52:08,281 It's much damper, so it marks better. 429 00:52:08,561 --> 00:52:09,481 Look, there! 430 00:52:10,161 --> 00:52:11,121 See that? 431 00:52:12,521 --> 00:52:13,441 Yes. 432 00:52:14,041 --> 00:52:15,241 - Leopard… - Leopard! 433 00:52:15,521 --> 00:52:16,841 And there, and there! 434 00:52:18,961 --> 00:52:19,921 Leopard! 435 00:52:21,361 --> 00:52:24,001 It went as far as it could go into the cave. 436 00:55:33,601 --> 00:55:35,601 With another, you'd get two angles. 437 00:55:35,881 --> 00:55:37,281 Exactly, so… 438 00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:39,241 Sometimes I set two. 439 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:42,761 They're not super reliable. 440 00:55:44,641 --> 00:55:46,081 A great big nothing. 441 00:55:47,481 --> 00:55:48,401 Nothing. 442 00:55:49,001 --> 00:55:50,881 Surprising I didn't get any clips 443 00:55:51,161 --> 00:55:54,841 when we passed by after setting the trap. 444 00:56:10,401 --> 00:56:12,121 Waiting was a prayer. 445 00:56:13,681 --> 00:56:14,841 An animal came. 446 00:56:15,641 --> 00:56:16,681 An apparition. 447 00:56:17,801 --> 00:56:20,001 Hoping had not been in vain. 448 00:56:21,761 --> 00:56:25,601 But if nothing came, we just hadn't looked properly. 449 00:56:33,281 --> 00:56:35,521 The blind was a modus operandi. 450 00:56:36,201 --> 00:56:40,201 Back home, I should make it a way of life. 451 00:58:58,401 --> 00:58:59,321 A crow. 452 00:58:59,601 --> 00:59:00,921 Yes, ravens. 453 00:59:02,361 --> 00:59:04,081 They often follow predators 454 00:59:04,361 --> 00:59:06,361 to feed off remains of their prey. 455 00:59:06,681 --> 00:59:08,041 A good sign for our panther. 456 00:59:12,721 --> 00:59:14,201 This is the best time. 457 00:59:15,241 --> 00:59:16,281 When they move. 458 00:59:17,521 --> 00:59:21,241 All that hollering in the canyon, I suspect it's there. 459 00:59:45,521 --> 00:59:48,001 - Aligot, right? - Dunno. It says… 460 00:59:48,281 --> 00:59:50,361 - Aligot. - With chunks of porcini. 461 01:00:22,721 --> 01:00:24,441 I think they've spotted us. 462 01:00:40,041 --> 01:00:41,001 Hello! 463 01:00:44,281 --> 01:00:45,321 Hey, Gompa. 464 01:00:49,401 --> 01:00:52,241 We're here for the leopard, not you. 465 01:00:55,241 --> 01:00:56,161 Tough climb? 466 01:01:02,401 --> 01:01:04,681 This is what I call inconspicuous. 467 01:01:10,601 --> 01:01:12,321 The leopard's over there! 468 01:01:12,921 --> 01:01:15,561 There? Look for it, look for the leopard. 469 01:01:26,281 --> 01:01:29,601 Let's do a drawing as a souvenir. 470 01:01:32,201 --> 01:01:35,121 Meantime, the leopard is watching us. 471 01:01:48,201 --> 01:01:51,801 - He found it? - Yeah, he found my playlist. 472 01:01:53,161 --> 01:01:54,241 Unbelievable. 473 01:02:18,721 --> 01:02:19,641 That's him. 474 01:02:19,921 --> 01:02:20,921 And him. 475 01:02:21,401 --> 01:02:22,321 That's her. 476 01:02:23,201 --> 01:02:25,721 Franco-Tibetan summit 477 01:02:26,001 --> 01:02:29,281 Mekong Valley, Feb 17, 2018 478 01:03:08,961 --> 01:03:10,601 What time do you call this? 479 01:03:12,161 --> 01:03:14,801 You go wandering off in the mountains and… 480 01:03:15,361 --> 01:03:16,761 come home at all hours! 481 01:03:17,041 --> 01:03:18,001 Be serious! 482 01:03:19,921 --> 01:03:22,721 And it's all about snow leopards? 483 01:03:23,921 --> 01:03:25,161 One big excuse! 484 01:03:27,961 --> 01:03:28,881 That? 485 01:03:30,601 --> 01:03:32,921 The cat. I don't know the word for it. 486 01:03:50,921 --> 01:03:51,921 And you? 487 01:03:57,121 --> 01:03:58,641 What's "dia"? Ah, eight! 488 01:04:01,001 --> 01:04:02,081 Eight years old. 489 01:04:04,881 --> 01:04:06,921 I'm asking what he's studying. 490 01:04:07,401 --> 01:04:09,201 As he's a little "bonze"… 491 01:04:10,121 --> 01:04:11,601 I suppose it's "nan"… 492 01:04:27,881 --> 01:04:28,801 All right. 493 01:04:29,081 --> 01:04:33,201 Now, how many yaks do they have on the farm? 494 01:04:34,361 --> 01:04:35,881 That's going to be tricky. 495 01:04:36,961 --> 01:04:37,961 Now then… 496 01:04:39,721 --> 01:04:40,321 No! 497 01:04:40,801 --> 01:04:43,041 Not "teeth"! A "male yak"! 498 01:04:43,321 --> 01:04:45,321 This textbook is useless! 499 01:04:56,321 --> 01:04:57,241 So… 500 01:04:59,401 --> 01:05:01,601 There must be a replay function. 501 01:05:12,121 --> 01:05:15,881 I got an animal at night, but it triggered late. 502 01:05:16,361 --> 01:05:17,881 Who is it? A bharal? 503 01:05:19,001 --> 01:05:20,081 I don't know. 504 01:05:25,201 --> 01:05:27,441 We'll keep going, I'll show you later… 505 01:05:27,721 --> 01:05:28,801 Look, what's that? 506 01:05:29,241 --> 01:05:30,041 A fox! 507 01:05:31,081 --> 01:05:32,921 In these temperatures, it's unreliable. 508 01:05:33,201 --> 01:05:34,521 That's a Tibetan fox. 509 01:05:36,601 --> 01:05:38,281 And another. Goodness! 510 01:05:39,161 --> 01:05:40,961 Tibetan fox, on what date? 511 01:05:42,801 --> 01:05:44,681 - It's written really small. - Last night? 512 01:05:44,961 --> 01:05:46,121 Yes, last night. 513 01:05:47,641 --> 01:05:48,681 But there's still… 514 01:05:48,961 --> 01:05:50,121 Fuck, look! 515 01:05:50,681 --> 01:05:52,281 A leopard, comrade! 516 01:05:54,441 --> 01:05:55,401 Fantastic! 517 01:05:56,881 --> 01:06:00,841 The leopard in the middle stops right in front. Magnificent! 518 01:06:01,521 --> 01:06:03,361 - Look, it's yawning. - Yawning! 519 01:06:07,681 --> 01:06:08,801 There it is! 520 01:06:09,201 --> 01:06:10,441 Unbelievable! 521 01:06:11,401 --> 01:06:12,801 Let's run it again. 522 01:06:14,601 --> 01:06:16,601 - Right in the middle. - It stops. 523 01:06:16,881 --> 01:06:19,081 Stops bang in front! 524 01:06:20,361 --> 01:06:22,961 - It has no idea. - No, doesn't see a thing. 525 01:06:23,241 --> 01:06:24,121 A quick yawn. 526 01:06:24,401 --> 01:06:25,521 Unbelievable! 527 01:06:26,401 --> 01:06:28,881 Weirdly, it comes from the right. 528 01:06:29,161 --> 01:06:30,521 I was expecting head-on. 529 01:06:31,441 --> 01:06:32,601 So, from over there? 530 01:06:32,881 --> 01:06:34,001 Yes, over there. 531 01:06:35,001 --> 01:06:36,121 In broad daylight! 532 01:06:39,361 --> 01:06:41,281 We'll come back in a few days. 533 01:06:41,561 --> 01:06:44,801 I think it's worth trying a few blinds here. 534 01:06:48,361 --> 01:06:50,161 That gives it a touch of the divine. 535 01:06:50,441 --> 01:06:54,081 It consecrates everything. It all becomes way more beautiful, 536 01:06:54,361 --> 01:06:57,881 unless it's my imagination distorting things. 537 01:07:00,281 --> 01:07:01,481 See what I mean? 538 01:07:01,761 --> 01:07:03,961 It enhances the value of everything. 539 01:07:04,441 --> 01:07:05,361 It's unbelievable. 540 01:07:05,641 --> 01:07:08,641 What we need to do is make sure… 541 01:07:09,721 --> 01:07:11,281 we cannot be seen. 542 01:07:11,561 --> 01:07:13,681 Set up a blind and stay put. 543 01:07:13,961 --> 01:07:15,481 The thing is to see… 544 01:07:15,921 --> 01:07:19,081 To turn the tables, to see before being seen. 545 01:07:21,401 --> 01:07:24,001 So the high-up strategy is the right one? 546 01:07:24,281 --> 01:07:25,321 I think so. 547 01:07:25,801 --> 01:07:28,721 Here's great for observing them from afar. 548 01:07:29,601 --> 01:07:32,201 To see them in movement, their behaviors, 549 01:07:32,481 --> 01:07:34,081 we need to be higher up. 550 01:07:34,801 --> 01:07:35,961 I'm sure of it. 551 01:07:46,881 --> 01:07:49,121 I like to sweep along the ridges. 552 01:07:50,241 --> 01:07:52,801 Sometimes you glimpse a silhouette. 553 01:08:03,401 --> 01:08:04,921 That would be wonderful. 554 01:08:06,201 --> 01:08:07,921 To get it outlined on a ridge. 555 01:08:09,921 --> 01:08:11,721 It's possible, very possible. 556 01:08:12,721 --> 01:08:15,121 This is when they come out to hunt. 557 01:09:13,961 --> 01:09:18,241 There's a whole herd of bharals coming down, whistling and warning. 558 01:09:18,961 --> 01:09:20,441 What do you call warning? 559 01:09:20,721 --> 01:09:22,961 They warn of a danger and regroup. 560 01:09:27,801 --> 01:09:29,841 Jeez, you're kidding me! Sylvain! 561 01:09:33,121 --> 01:09:34,161 It's a bear! 562 01:09:34,441 --> 01:09:36,081 There's a bear on the ridge! 563 01:09:38,641 --> 01:09:39,681 Fabulous! 564 01:10:17,081 --> 01:10:19,001 They're near the ridge. 565 01:10:19,441 --> 01:10:20,601 They're playing. 566 01:10:32,681 --> 01:10:34,441 Shoot, the wrong side. 567 01:10:36,241 --> 01:10:37,721 Wanna go see? 568 01:10:38,441 --> 01:10:39,201 It's tricky 569 01:10:39,481 --> 01:10:40,561 but let's try. 570 01:10:41,361 --> 01:10:43,801 Yeah, let's try. It's tricky, we'll go slow. 571 01:10:44,081 --> 01:10:46,721 - Tricky because? - We'll run straight into them. 572 01:10:47,001 --> 01:10:48,241 Run into them, right. 573 01:10:53,401 --> 01:10:55,281 It's a mother with two cubs. 574 01:10:56,201 --> 01:10:57,481 Could be dangerous. 575 01:11:19,521 --> 01:11:21,441 Up there, Sylvain! The silhouettes! 576 01:11:33,761 --> 01:11:34,841 Magnificent! 577 01:11:42,121 --> 01:11:44,161 They're coming our way, for sure. 578 01:11:44,921 --> 01:11:45,881 Maybe not. 579 01:11:46,321 --> 01:11:48,641 Them coming our way is less problematic. 580 01:11:48,921 --> 01:11:50,521 - Not dangerous? - No. 581 01:11:55,921 --> 01:11:57,561 Rubbing on the rock. 582 01:12:00,241 --> 01:12:02,681 Watch, it'll go up on its hind legs. 583 01:12:03,201 --> 01:12:04,201 As in, not happy? 584 01:12:04,481 --> 01:12:06,001 No, it just feels good. 585 01:12:06,801 --> 01:12:07,961 They love it. 586 01:12:10,961 --> 01:12:12,801 - Don't move. - I'm not moving. 587 01:12:13,681 --> 01:12:15,121 They've seen us, for sure. 588 01:12:17,161 --> 01:12:18,721 They're taking a good look. 589 01:12:56,201 --> 01:12:59,401 - Maybe we should beat it. - No, not a chance! 590 01:13:00,401 --> 01:13:01,761 Where'd they go? 591 01:13:24,801 --> 01:13:27,721 - They're coming down. - Yes, most likely. 592 01:13:34,721 --> 01:13:36,841 At some point, shouldn't we go? 593 01:13:37,281 --> 01:13:38,721 Where's the third one? 594 01:13:42,601 --> 01:13:43,481 Let's go! 595 01:13:56,881 --> 01:13:58,041 Seeing a wild beast 596 01:13:58,321 --> 01:14:01,561 amounted to pressing your eye to a magic peephole. 597 01:14:02,081 --> 01:14:06,401 It was a view of a world that we could study, photograph, 598 01:14:07,121 --> 01:14:08,041 describe, 599 01:14:08,321 --> 01:14:09,681 understand perhaps, 600 01:14:09,961 --> 01:14:11,481 destroy certainly, 601 01:14:12,241 --> 01:14:15,321 but with which we were prohibited from communicating 602 01:14:15,601 --> 01:14:19,321 since destiny had expelled us from that golden age, 603 01:14:19,841 --> 01:14:22,001 when beasts, humans and gods 604 01:14:22,281 --> 01:14:24,281 conducted a common conversation. 605 01:14:38,721 --> 01:14:40,161 We're here, Sylvain! 606 01:14:41,041 --> 01:14:41,801 Can I come in? 607 01:14:42,521 --> 01:14:43,281 Of course. 608 01:14:43,561 --> 01:14:44,361 Hello. 609 01:14:44,641 --> 01:14:45,681 Hello! 610 01:14:55,441 --> 01:14:56,801 Come and sit down. 611 01:14:59,841 --> 01:15:02,041 - We need a translator. - There, maybe? 612 01:15:03,081 --> 01:15:04,001 Thanks. 613 01:15:08,481 --> 01:15:09,441 Sylvain! 614 01:15:15,401 --> 01:15:19,361 For weeks we'd been there, sweeping those ridges. 615 01:15:21,481 --> 01:15:24,281 My beautiful journey, alas, was nearing its end. 616 01:15:25,921 --> 01:15:27,201 I could see myself 617 01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:31,041 accepting the fact that the leopard had escaped us. 618 01:15:32,241 --> 01:15:33,241 Fatalistically, 619 01:15:33,801 --> 01:15:37,041 I'd have forced myself to cheer its absence 620 01:15:37,801 --> 01:15:41,841 and to convince myself that my dream was better intact. 621 01:15:44,401 --> 01:15:46,281 One being obsesses you, 622 01:15:46,881 --> 01:15:48,721 the world takes its shape. 623 01:16:57,041 --> 01:16:58,401 No, it's deep. 624 01:17:02,721 --> 01:17:04,121 It's wonderful. 625 01:17:05,921 --> 01:17:07,401 There's even a crown. 626 01:17:09,521 --> 01:17:10,241 From a bharal. 627 01:17:10,521 --> 01:17:11,601 Wonderful! 628 01:17:14,721 --> 01:17:15,881 A fine male. 629 01:17:19,521 --> 01:17:22,841 This little mound hid the full depth of it, 630 01:17:23,681 --> 01:17:25,081 but it turns out… 631 01:17:29,761 --> 01:17:30,681 Look! 632 01:17:33,441 --> 01:17:35,481 - Look, it's… - We have a pair. 633 01:17:35,921 --> 01:17:37,121 Stick it in. 634 01:17:38,641 --> 01:17:39,561 A horn. 635 01:17:42,321 --> 01:17:44,561 And Tibet out of the opening. 636 01:17:47,361 --> 01:17:48,361 Fabulous! 637 01:17:52,081 --> 01:17:54,521 We get a view of the valley from there? 638 01:17:55,481 --> 01:17:57,281 I think we will. 639 01:18:13,881 --> 01:18:15,441 How did we miss that? 640 01:18:16,281 --> 01:18:18,401 - Crazy! - Completely nuts. 641 01:18:22,961 --> 01:18:25,001 You think scavengers have seen it? 642 01:18:25,281 --> 01:18:28,001 I don't think so. It looks really fresh. 643 01:18:33,961 --> 01:18:35,841 I think we can pitch camp. 644 01:18:36,761 --> 01:18:38,521 Pitch camp, prep the gear. 645 01:18:38,801 --> 01:18:41,721 No, you keep looking. I'll shift the rocks. 646 01:18:44,561 --> 01:18:47,401 On the way up, we disturbed it gutting the prey. 647 01:18:47,681 --> 01:18:49,321 There's fur everywhere. 648 01:18:50,241 --> 01:18:53,641 It saw us coming through. It's there, observing us. 649 01:18:55,281 --> 01:18:58,401 There's blood on the snow. Last snowfall was two hours ago. 650 01:18:58,681 --> 01:19:01,641 It grabbed the prey, hauled it by the neck into the valley 651 01:19:01,921 --> 01:19:03,601 and started gutting it. 652 01:19:09,281 --> 01:19:12,321 A lot of hermits come here on retreats, 653 01:19:12,601 --> 01:19:15,041 in the caves. So said the nomads. 654 01:19:15,521 --> 01:19:18,401 There was a great Tibetan hermit named Milarepa, 655 01:19:18,681 --> 01:19:21,161 who spent goodness knows how many years 656 01:19:21,441 --> 01:19:24,321 in a cave, eating nettles, until he turned green. 657 01:19:25,121 --> 01:19:27,641 Due to the nettles. They worship him here. 658 01:19:28,361 --> 01:19:29,481 Milarepa. 659 01:19:30,321 --> 01:19:31,481 I think more animal. 660 01:19:32,161 --> 01:19:34,481 - Yes, I saw you sniff… - The rock. 661 01:19:34,761 --> 01:19:37,081 … the walls when we arrived, 662 01:19:37,721 --> 01:19:38,921 it's one approach. 663 01:19:39,201 --> 01:19:41,361 But if you're invited to someone's 664 01:19:41,641 --> 01:19:42,721 in Paris… 665 01:19:43,321 --> 01:19:44,201 Just don't. 666 01:19:44,481 --> 01:19:46,041 No sniffing the rooms. 667 01:20:10,761 --> 01:20:12,001 And its paws? 668 01:20:12,281 --> 01:20:13,041 How wide? 669 01:20:13,921 --> 01:20:14,841 Wider than that? 670 01:20:15,121 --> 01:20:17,561 On some photos, on the move… 671 01:20:19,001 --> 01:20:22,841 In mid-air, the paws look to be the same size as its head. 672 01:20:23,121 --> 01:20:24,041 Just imagine. 673 01:20:27,281 --> 01:20:29,441 We talked about life in the caves, 674 01:20:29,721 --> 01:20:31,761 about fear vanquished by fire, 675 01:20:32,081 --> 01:20:34,401 about conversation born of flames, 676 01:20:34,681 --> 01:20:36,921 about dreams becoming art, 677 01:20:37,201 --> 01:20:39,161 about wolves becoming dogs, 678 01:20:39,841 --> 01:20:42,721 and about human audacity in crossing the line. 679 01:20:43,481 --> 01:20:45,801 Then we slipped into our sleeping bags. 680 01:20:46,801 --> 01:20:49,001 If the leopard came in the night, 681 01:20:49,281 --> 01:20:52,601 it would sniff our scent despite the cold. 682 01:20:54,001 --> 01:20:56,481 We had to accept the depressing idea… 683 01:20:57,201 --> 01:20:59,561 The Earth reeks of humans. 684 01:21:13,881 --> 01:21:16,081 It's blowing up there, really blowing. 685 01:21:43,081 --> 01:21:45,121 I think I've got it, Sylvain. 686 01:21:45,401 --> 01:21:47,361 There's something on the ridge. 687 01:21:47,641 --> 01:21:50,001 - It moved? - It will. It's up. 688 01:21:50,681 --> 01:21:53,321 I've got it. See that big block? 689 01:21:53,601 --> 01:21:54,721 The big block? 690 01:21:55,361 --> 01:21:57,241 To the right of the big block. 691 01:22:00,281 --> 01:22:03,121 On the ridge, outlined against the sky. 692 01:22:04,281 --> 01:22:05,361 Sylvain, look… 693 01:22:06,001 --> 01:22:07,001 Look at me. 694 01:22:07,401 --> 01:22:09,841 You see the biggest boulder? The darkest? 695 01:22:10,121 --> 01:22:11,201 Kind of reddish? 696 01:22:11,481 --> 01:22:13,881 Kind of reddish. Then go to the right. 697 01:22:14,241 --> 01:22:15,281 On the ridge. 698 01:22:18,081 --> 01:22:18,961 Got it? 699 01:22:23,361 --> 01:22:24,401 Magnificent! 700 01:22:35,241 --> 01:22:36,761 - See it now? - Yes… 701 01:22:37,041 --> 01:22:38,081 Fabulous! 702 01:22:43,801 --> 01:22:45,401 Absolutely marvelous. 703 01:23:41,761 --> 01:23:43,041 It really is nuts. 704 01:23:45,041 --> 01:23:47,921 I've never seen this before. It's super rare. 705 01:23:54,121 --> 01:23:57,041 It knows we slept in the cave. I'm sure it knows. 706 01:23:57,321 --> 01:23:59,001 It took its time overnight… 707 01:24:02,601 --> 01:24:03,841 It doesn't look… 708 01:24:05,281 --> 01:24:08,481 It doesn't look at all bothered about us. 709 01:24:16,321 --> 01:24:17,281 It makes a kill 710 01:24:18,001 --> 01:24:21,201 100 meters from the cave we pick to sleep in. That's… 711 01:24:22,241 --> 01:24:25,001 It's a gift, a gift out of nowhere. 712 01:24:25,801 --> 01:24:27,681 It could have been anywhere. 713 01:24:30,001 --> 01:24:31,801 Jeez, what a stroke of luck! 714 01:25:48,081 --> 01:25:50,401 Your heart skips a beat. 715 01:25:52,201 --> 01:25:54,441 It's everything we've renounced. 716 01:25:55,521 --> 01:25:56,761 Liberty, 717 01:25:57,321 --> 01:25:58,561 autonomy, 718 01:25:58,841 --> 01:26:01,401 perfect knowledge of the environment. 719 01:26:48,321 --> 01:26:51,361 I'd encountered the fine features of the spirit of the rocks. 720 01:26:51,921 --> 01:26:52,961 Its image 721 01:26:53,241 --> 01:26:55,041 slipped under my eyelids 722 01:26:55,321 --> 01:26:56,521 and lived within me. 723 01:26:58,001 --> 01:26:58,961 Closing my eyes, 724 01:26:59,241 --> 01:27:02,081 I saw its haughty feline face, 725 01:27:02,361 --> 01:27:06,161 its features tapering into a delicate, terrible muzzle. 726 01:27:07,121 --> 01:27:08,681 I'd seen the snow leopard. 727 01:27:08,961 --> 01:27:10,361 I'd stolen fire 728 01:27:10,881 --> 01:27:12,961 and I carried within me the embers. 729 01:27:16,361 --> 01:27:19,761 I'd learned that patience was a supreme virtue. 730 01:27:20,281 --> 01:27:22,761 The most elegant and most neglected. 731 01:27:24,361 --> 01:27:26,441 It helped you love the world. 732 01:27:38,361 --> 01:27:40,321 On the pages of my notebooks, 733 01:27:40,801 --> 01:27:44,561 I compiled the principles inspired in me by these days 734 01:27:44,841 --> 01:27:46,921 spent rubbing shoulders with beauty. 735 01:27:50,361 --> 01:27:52,481 Revere what is in front of us. 736 01:27:53,961 --> 01:27:55,321 Hope for nothing. 737 01:27:57,401 --> 01:27:59,281 Delight in what crops up. 738 01:28:01,481 --> 01:28:04,001 Have faith in poetry. 739 01:28:06,441 --> 01:28:08,161 Be content with the world. 740 01:28:11,241 --> 01:28:13,441 Fight for it to remain. 741 01:29:33,681 --> 01:29:36,801 This film was shot with a small crew, with free and wild animals 742 01:29:37,081 --> 01:29:38,921 and the constant concern not to disturb them. 743 01:29:39,201 --> 01:29:42,281 Tribute to the animals and to those who devote their lives to protect them.