Clay Lancaster recently gave an interview on www.moosefm.ca about his hunting trip to Russia. What a tale! Glad to hear he made it home safely.

Amigo: Is there a transcript or summary or something ?? .. if not, that is about the worst reporting of a hunting tale that I have heard lately ....

Sorry. Clay and his companions went to Kyrgastan(?) to hunt Marco Polo sheep, Ibex, etc.. At the end of their hunt, they became stuck in a blizzard when their 4 wheel drives could no longer negotiate the trail. After 2 days of very little food and water, temps dropping to -30 at night, only 4 sleeping bags to share among a dozen people, and several calls to their booking agent, whose number evetually reached a not in service recording, a helicopter was sent to rescue them.
2 dozen people piled into this chopper and headed for the drop-off point. The chopper was overloaded with fuel tanks and such and the chopper crashed on a downhill slope, miles from anywhere.
2 locals were killed, and just about everyone else was injured, some seriously. A decision was made by Clay and a couple others to walk out to get help. They encountered a group on maneuvers and were taken by snowmobile to relative safety.
After refusing to sign a waiver in Russian, the gov. officials reluctantly let Clay and the others leave the country. The gov. also demanded payment for the initial fatal flight that crashed!
I will try to get the interview repeated if possible or a transcript as my short version is no substitute for hearing it from Clay.

Scary !!! ... there is probably a lesson there somewhere... but I'm not exactly sure what it might be .. Bad stuff just sometimes happens ... Too bad .. for all concerned.

We are trying to get a re-broadcast of the interview organized so I will post the time(s). You can catch the moose on the net @ www.moosefm.ca It's well worth a listen to hear of all the details of this near tragic-- for Clay-- hunting trip. There's no place like home?

Thanks yama. I'll keep an eye on this thread for the time of the re-broadcast. Would love to hear it!!

Cheers,
Canuck