Mongolia

In 2007, I started work in Mongolia as a geologist with the company, Gobi Coal and Energy Limited. The Chairman was Mohammed …

“Would you like to see a Museum?” We were in one of the most remote parts of Mongolia – and I wondered …

In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …

Corals in Mongolia – is there a better example of dramatic Earth-change?! The Gobi Altai -the mountains flanking the Gobi Desert, are …

In five years or so  in and out of Mongolia, I’ve criss-crossed thousands of kilometres by 4WD Landcruiser. But I’ve only taken …

I once had a student come to me for help looking at sheep crap. It took the mystery out of what this …

Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

“I’ll have to show these to my colleague”. The security guard at Brisbane’s International Airport took the two objects from my bum-bag …

It was on the flight back to UIaan Baatar that I remembered the ghost. My field partner, Nyambayar, and I had been …

It’s March 2009 in Mongolia and there is an ill-feeling along the Gobi Altai. The year before, and some months after the …