THE PACK SURVIVES

THE ETHIOPIAN WOLF IS THE rarest canid in the world. As a wildlife photographer, it had been my long-standing dream to capture this elusive, beautiful creature. In pursuit of this goal, I visited the Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP), 400 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, where I met Claudio Sillero-Zubiri. Claudio and I had been colleagues almost two decades ago at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (wildcru.org) in the University of Oxford, where I was working towards my doctorate on tigers, and he had completed his dissertation on Ethiopian wolves.

I was received at the airport by an intrepid team of a guide and a driver, who helped me load my many bags of camera gear before we could set