http://pulsemedia.org/2009/09/23/genghis-khan/ "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://pulsemedia.org/2009/09/23/genghis-khan/#comment-10299 Mon, 03 May 2010 12:33:01 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=15351#comment-10299 [...] It’s gotten a lot warmer in the last few days – yesterday was positively hot. The camp is coming together, I’ve gone up to help a few days and spent some in Ulaanbaatar. I’m not sure what my plan is now. My fantasy plan was to ride a horse across Mongolia, or even further. I will definitely do some horse trekking, but Mendee has told me not to expect more than twenty or thirty kilometers a day on a long horse-trek, which seems strange to me as I can walk twenty kilometers a day with a pack on and I smoke cigarettes. I thought horses were, well, strong as, um, horses. It would take me over two months to cross Mongolia at that rate and I’m not sure I’m up for it, not to mention visa and schedule issues. Mongolian horses are smaller than western horses, and it has been a rough winter, but even so I expected more mileage. Mendee says it has to do with letting the horses roam free from time to time and that they get weak when they spend long periods without ever getting to cavort on their own. I believe him, but I don’t understand how Ghengis Khan managed to maraud across Europe on such horses. Perhaps he fed them the leftover bodies from his skull piles. [...]

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