Of course, this was partly because I was cold from sitting for hours in the ice while all this transpired, but I was also shaking because I couldn’t believe what we had just witnessed.
This coloration provides excellent camouflage in their native habitat. Because of their incredible natural camouflage, rendering them almost invisible in their surroundings, snow leopards are often referred to as the ghost of the mountains. That encounter was, and will probably always be, one of the the most incredible experiences I’ve had with a wild animal in my life. A slightly easier-to-spot snow leopard against a white, snowy backdrop (Caters News) Listed as vulnerable by conservationists, with only some 4,000 to 6,500 specimens surviving in the wild. Snow leopards have light gray fur with black spots, known as rosettes. With their thick, cream-colored coats and gray-black spots, snow leopards camouflage so well within their rocky habitat high in the Himalayas that they are. We wanted him to be successful so he could enjoy some food. 'Seven out of eight snow leopard hunts fail and we tried desperately to sit and hide so we wouldn’t interrupt his hunt. Ms Vandyke said despite the snow leopard's stealthy skills he was unable to catch the sheep. 'Even in the "camouflaged leopard" photograph you see in my images, we had followed that leopard so we knew where he was, but each time we took our cameras away from our faces to have a rest from carrying a heavy lens, we would try to locate him again to take a photo and it would take us a minute or more to try and find him again as he hid behind a rock.' The snow leopard, pictured, is rarely ever photographed because of its life in some of the most remote areas of the world
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