6000 miles in the saddle, but he couldn’t ride!
Basha O’Reilly reports on the remarkable exploits of Australian Tim Cope, equally a cinema nigh his adventures is nigh to hide inwards southern New Zealand.
When Australian Long Rider Tim Cope laid out to brand the start equestrian journeying betwixt Mongolia as well as Republic of Hungary since Genghis Khan’s horde, he knew naught nigh horses.
He had already spent several years travelling inwards regions of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, as well as Ukraine yesteryear bicycle, row-boat as well as skis.
But he had never made an equestrian journey.
Tim had been thrown from a Equus caballus equally a child, broken his arm, as well as decided that horses were non for him. Yet when he contacted the Long Riders’ Guild for advice, experienced equestrian explorers from all over the basis advised Tim, including Catherine Waridel who made a Long Ride inwards the contrary direction, from the Crimea to Mongolia.
Could the immature Australian larn plenty nigh horses to ensure their comfort as well as security?
Many emails as well as yell conversations after his initial approach to the Guild, Tim started his epic journey.
Three years of adventures inwards the Steppes amongst the nomads followed – including having his horses stolen as well as beingness threatened yesteryear wolves – but the horses’ welfare was ever paramount inwards Tim’s mind.
One terrible hurdle for Tim was to acquire himself as well as his animals into Russia, a seemingly impossible chore inwards spite of the huge mound of official paperwork from both the Kazakh as well as the Russian authorities. With literally hours left on his Kazakh visa, the occupation was solved.
Tim wrote: “Well, simply inwards the nick of fourth dimension I volition enjoin you. Feel similar I receive got aged yesteryear nigh 10 years inwards the final few weeks, most of that inwards the final v days! No sleep, constantly playing the mysterious game of bureaucracy, similar clutching at straws inwards the night. Finally roughly mutual feel prevailed.”
What had caused the difficulty? The documents stated that Tim was allowed to convey horses INTO Russia. But non i of them truly authorised Tim to go inwards ON horseback!
Tim side yesteryear side wrote to the Guild inwards Feb 2006: “Here on the delta inwards Astrakhan province a multifariousness of cultures as well as countries has mixed as well as conflicted for millennia. These include the mount domicile Caucasus people – Chechens, Dagestanis, Cherkes, Ossetians to advert a few – the nomad tartars, Kazaks, Kalmiks as well as Nogais, free-roaming Cossacks, as well as the settled Russians who arrived to accept payoff of merchandise routes across the Caspian. I was essentially arriving on the fringe of the ancient battlefront betwixt settled peoples as well as nomads. In fact, I experience that 700 or 800 years agone the nomads as well as the sedentary people must receive got felt pretty much the same nigh each other equally farmers as well as I create today!”
As Tim finished his epic journey, he was honoured at the most sacred as well as of import historical site inwards Republic of Hungary (Opusztaszer), where inwards the yr 896 the modern acre of Republic of Hungary was born. Tim paid tribute to the master copy nomads of Republic of Hungary (known equally ‘Magyars’) who came from the eastward yesteryear horse, as well as the many other steppe peoples who receive got migrated across Eurasia for millennia, including the Mongols.
Yes, but what happened to the horses, two of which had travelled amongst him for nearly 3 years?
Tim presented them equally a gift to a Hungarian children’s home. He hopes that his journeying volition aid inspire immature people to notice their history as well as civilisation as well as that his horses volition encourage children to explore the basis similar he did, from the saddle.
The even of this epic trip has been made into a cinema entitled “On the Trail of Genghis Khan”. Even though it has non nonetheless been released, it is sweeping awards all over the world, including Austria, Czech, Bulgaria, Canada, Slovenia as well as Slovakia.
In an electronic mail to the Guild, Tim reported: “It is quite remarkable that a long riding cinema has been given such accolades inwards the aspect upward of modern-day extreme lead chances documentaries. But nosotros are getting Equus caballus riding, as well as these ancient steppe cultures, into the relative mainstream.
The Long Rider cinema volition hold out shown inwards New Zealand at the Wanaka festival, as well as then afterwards inwards Queenstown betwixt July half dozen as well as 11.
More information:
http://mountainfilm.net.nz/
http://www.timcopejourneys.com/
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