One of the most fascinating human-animal partnerships is the millennia-old tradition of hunting with golden eagles in Mongolia. Dr. Lauren McGough spent two years in the Altai Mountains, living with nomadic families, learning and documenting this incredible relationship between nomadic Kazakh people and wild eagles. Here she takes you on a whirlwind adventure of what it is like to learn to be an eagle hunter, how to earn an eagles' respect, and how to thrive in one of the world's harshest environments with horses, camels, goats, sheep, dogs and birds of prey. She now uses what she learned in Mongolia to rehabilitate young eagles that never learned to hunt in the wild, bringing these traditions to the USA for a species in need.