Today’s episode focuses on someone that Girl Museum has long admired - Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the 13-year-old eagle huntress of Mongolia. In 2014, Aisholpan won her first competition, followed by additional wins in 2015 and 2016. Her accomplishments were first documented by Israeli photographer Asher Svidensky for BBC News; seeing the photographs, film director Otto Bell tracked her family down. In an interview with BBC, Otto stated that “on the very first day…[he] filmed one of the early scenes in the film, where the girl and her father seize a baby eaglet from its nest. It’s a dramatic moment with Aisholpan climbing down a cliff, her father holding a rope attached to her waist.”