Pakistan's Snow Leapords

For a century, Pakistan knew its ghost cat was out there. This year, someone finally put a number to it.

Muhammad Ali Nawaz has spent the better part of two decades trying to count an animal that does not want to be counted. He is a wildlife biologist and the founder of the Snow Leopard Foundation Pakistan, based in Islamabad, and his work has taken him to ridgelines above Khunjerab, into the side valleys of Chitral, across the boulder fields of the Centra…