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Mountain Ibex - Chamonix, French Alps

I am not known for wildlife photography but when those two adolescent Ibex´s climbed a large boulder in-front of my while hiking down from Lac Blanc in the French Alps I could not resist photographing them. Indeed it was the most exciting time I have had photographing for a long while. They were only 5-10m away from me and seeing them practicing their fighting skills for about half an hour on the rocks was quite the show.

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Uploaded on June 26, 2012
Taken on June 20, 2012