With her engaging and informative text, Montgomery invites the reader to join them on the journey. In Saving the Ghost of the Mountain, author Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop accompany Tom and his team on one such expedition to the harsh Mongolian desert. His work takes him to remote places all over the world in search of this elusive cat. Enter Tom McCarthy, a scientist who has dedicated his life to studying and protecting the snow leopard. Scientists estimate that there might be between 35 in the entire world, but snow leopards are so hard to spot that this estimate might be completely wrong. How rare, you ask? Well, that's hard to tell. They thrive in temperatures cold enough to freeze human tears. They can live at altitudes too high for trees - sometimes in places with only half the oxygen people need to breathe easily. Snow leopards are as tough as they are beautiful, They survive in some of the harshest, most remote, most extreme habitats in the world. People live their entire life among snow leopards and never see one. People call it "the ghost of the mountain." A pale, spotted, almost cloudlike coat makes the snow leopard uncannily invisible in its rocky mountain habitat. Saving the Ghost of Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop.
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