Mountain Patrol: Kekexili

Based on the real-life exploits of China's so-called Wild Yak Brigade, this harrowing adventure follows a fearless mountain patrol as they cross the Tibetan plateau in search of a ruthless band of poachers. The poachers prey on the endangered chiru, a gorgeous, long-horned Tibetan antelope that makes its home in the vast Kekexili region along China's Tibetan border. Prized for their ultrafine coats used to weave expensive shahtoosh shawls and scarves, the antelope's numbers have dropped from more than one million in the mid-1980s to fewer than 10,000, and the poachers' cruel willingness to hunt females in the antelopes' breeding grounds means the popula...