Who are Tims heroic equines?
With Tim at the end will be the animals in which he has trusted, and who are the real heroes of this epic trek. Taskonir (which means Brown stone in Kazakh) is a 14 year old Gelding. and has been Tims main reliable mount since Tim bought him in the Altai region of Kazakhstan in October 2004. Ogonyok, a tough pack horse up to the task of carrying heavy loads, is a seven year old gelding who is also from the Altai of Kazakhstan. Kok (which means ‘green’ in Kazakh) is a young five year old gelding, and a relative necomer to the team. Together these horses have weathered all of the extremes that Tim has encountered an more. They are all tough steppe breeds, who unlike sedentary animals can survive in any temperature without cover. Historically it was these kinds of horses that allowed Ghengis khan and the Mongols to travel so far and fast. The steppe breeds can survive without hay and grain, and in Winter are accustomed to digging through the ice and snow to find pasture.
