The Big Open – On Foot Across Tibet’s Chang Tang –

“For centuries, the endearing Tibetan antelope called the chiru has been the source of the world’s finest wool, shahtoosh, and for millennia chiru have migrated every year across the 16,000-foot-high Central Asian plateau called Chang Tang. A century ago, early Western explorers wrote of herds of many thousands, but in the decades since, their numbers have dwindled drastically – for the only way to obtain their delicate, luxurious hair is to hunt down and kill these elusive creatures.

This wonderful book chronicles four men’s extraordinary contribution to the worldwide campaign to save the chiru – a month-long, 275-mile trek on foot in search of their hidden calving grounds, pulling rickshaws laden with gear into a wilderness where no Westerner had ever set foot.”