Eric Dragesco / Wild Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) climbing among rocks on a mountainside, Altai Mountains, Mongolia, August.

Wim van den Heever / Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) climbing up mountain slope, Hemis National Park, India, February.

Ben Cranke / Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) walking down snow covered slope, Hemas National Park, Ladakh, India. Winner of the Long Lens catergory in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.

Ben Cranke,Ben Cranke / Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia) walking down snow covered slope, Hemis National Park, Ladakh, India

Sandesh Kadur / Snow leopard (Unica unica) scent marking against boulder in rocky landscape in Himalayas. Ule, Ladakh, India. March 2018. Sequence 2/2.

Sandesh Kadur / Snow leopard (Unica unica) standing beside boulder in rocky landscape of Himalayas, prior to scent marking. Ule, Ladakh, India. March 2018. Sequence 1/2.

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) walking in snow, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) female with her two juveniles, sniffing a territorial mark in a rock, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India, March

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) juvenile walking in snow, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India, March

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) juvenile walking in snow, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India, March

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) female with her two juveniles walking in snow, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India, March

Oriol Alamany / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) at dusk walking in snow, in Spiti Valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India, March;