Photos: The Profound Bond Between Mongolia’s Last Eagle Keepers and Their Mighty Birds

Photos: The Profound Bond Between Mongolia’s Last Eagle Keepers and Their Mighty Birds
Courtesy of Daniel Kordan
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Venturing to Mongolia to meet the country’s last remaining nomadic eagle keepers, Russian photographer Daniel Kordan turned his reverence into a series of incredible photographs.

Kordan’s work, a breathtaking mixture of epic landscape photography and intimate portraiture, exemplifies the bond between the keepers and their birds—an elusive 1,000-year-old tradition that runs the risk of dying out.