But he knows this route like the back of his hand, and he is almost within sight of his cabin.
Their twenty-year-old truck was nicknamed a Kung, and it was the Russian army's four-ton equivalent to the Unimog and the Humvee.
Gasoline-powered, with a winch, four-wheel-drive, and wide waist-high tires, it is a popular vehicle in Primorye's hinterlands.
Some believe the tiger's whiskers will make them bulletproof and that its powdered bones will soothe their aches and pains.
Between 1992 and 1994, approximately one hundred tigers — roughly one quarter of the country's wild population — were killed.
Up ahead, the tiger's tracks showed plainly in the snow, brought into sharp relief by the shadows now pooling within them.
But at that moment, he was poised — equidistant between the tiger and the harrowing evidence of what it had done. »