Hunting Wild Sheep and Goats Around the World: A Mountain Hunter's Journal

Hardcover, 333 pages. Fifty years ago, Latham Myers learned to hunt with his grandpa. Today he scales the highest peaks in the world in the toughest of big-game hunts. It was his grandpa who taught him how and why we hunt, and it was this same mentor who instilled in him a love of hunting that grew into one of his greatest passions, hunting wild sheep and goats on the pinnacles of the world. In 1995, Latham started his mountain-hunting journey with an add-on hunt for the challenging North American mountain goat. Since then, he has hunted on five continents and in eleven countries, including six trips to Russia, four to Canada, and two to Spain. Along that journey he accomplished a Triple Slam that includes a Grand Slam of North American sheep (Dall, Stone, Rocky Mountain bighorn, desert bighorn), an Ovis World Slam (twelve varieties of wild sheep), and a Capra World Slam (twelve varieties of wild goats). During that process, he maintained a journal and took thousands of photographs of