My stomach flips again as I stare into the gorge that is racing past less than a metre from the car’s passenger window. Far below the narrow, twisting road, I…
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Stalking roebuck in the Austrian alps
The dirt track that winds up from the valley floor to the hut near the top of the mountain is eight kilometres long, climbs 800m in altitude and connects two…
Spanish roebuck – chasing the gold medal
The dream of shooting a gold-medal roebuck had already led Frank Olsen to Romania a couple of times. On the first occasion, he didn’t get a sniff at a deer…
Why the Scottish Highlands are such a shooting tourist hotspot
The weather is far from typical for deerstalking in the Scottish Highlands as outfitter Thomas Heinzel-Kienberger leads visiting hunters Rasmus Andersen and Mathias Nielsen across his family’s estate. The 5,000-acre…
Stalking medal roebuck in the English countryside
Mud squelches out from beneath my companion’s boot every time it connects with the boggy ground below. Stalker Anthony White is well over 6ft tall and has a shoe size…
Conservation in South Africa – sharing knowledge with the next generation
Daniel Smith is one big smile as the vehicles pull up at the camp after his first day on safari. With the smoke from the bonfire tickling his nose, he…
Tracking tahr in the mountains of New Zealand
The two helicopters take off almost simultaneously, leaving us in pristine mountain wilderness on the far side of the world. We’re a full day’s hike from civilisation in one of…
Stalking Chinese water deer
Britain now has more than 15% of the world’s Chinese water deer population, but it is an exotic species native to China, eastern Asia, North Korea and South Korea. It…