Great day today. They get up fairly late here, so we got up this morning when it was light. We had our breakfast of goat cheese, onions and some sort of flat bread. The bread is almost like a tile, but softer, but not by much. I stepped outside and looked through my binos and there was a beautiful, big Ibex on the top of the mountains just beside us. The guides decided we would try and get that one but we had to go way around to the far edge of the mountain, so we climbed, climbed, climbed forever and got up there, but then for some reason they decided we couldn't go any further that way, so we had to go the other direction. So by then we weren't seeing much; we only a group of nine females and babies that were already running. It's hot, hot, hot, boiling desert up in the high areas, and really steep and nasty rock. We went through some cliffs that were about as steep and dangerous as I've ever climbed through, but the rocks are weathered in a way that there are little spikes sticking out of the rocks. It rips the heck out of your boots and your hands, but they stick right into the soles of your boots and you can actually hang onto some steep stuff. The cliff drops off a couple hundred feet on the face, and we're walking right along the face the whole way. So we got up to where we were going and then they decided that we were going to climb one more ridge before it was too late in the day. We crawled up and found a group of Ibex, probably 10 females and young ones, two males and one was a really beautiful male so we snuck up. At 196 yards he spotted us and started going. He stopped once at 220 yards to look back and I made a perfect shot right through the heart and got him. A magnificent Persian Desert Ibex right in central Persia, which is Iran. They're the tiniest little Ibex that I've ever seen. Definitely not any bigger than a Sindh Ibex, and with beautiful markings on them. The guys here are like mountain goats - they actually carried him down whole the entire way down the mountain. I was hanging on with my finger nails all the way down, and we went down even steeper than what we went up. Pretty nasty stuff. But we got down safe and sound and we're here at camp, so we're going to celebrate with a little cheese and flat bread with onions, which is what I think we're having for breakfast tomorrow too.