PLAN TO RENDEZVOUS WITH JORGE CERVANTES
AT ACS IN NEW ORLEANS
AND EXTEND AN INVITATION TO HIM FOR THE KAMCHATKA BIG HORN HUNT
Dr. Jorge Cervantes
Professor of Surgery, ABCMC, IAP
Sur 136 No 116 Col Las Americas
Apartado Postal 18901
01120 Mexico, DF
Fax 525/ 516 99 70
Dear Jorge:
Congratulations! June 21, 2001
What a superb honor! I knew that you would be up to it, and I envy the chance to follow in your footsteps for this prestigious award. You also know that I will be there, especially since I also have a presentation the same day on the subject of international medical missions—for which I will be flying in from the far side of the world—and now I have a doubled reason to be sure to be awake and alert on October 10 in New Orleans!
I have not forgotten your generous offer to hunt the superb country of your familiar northern big buck setting. I wanted to reciprocate with an even better offer!
I have been invited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hunt the big Kamchatka Big Horn ram with a very good chance of taking a very large Brown Bear which are very thick in the area of the northern Kamchatka mountains adjacent to Siberia. I have arranged with George Sevich of Eurasian Expeditions who was my outfitter who had arranged my last Kamchatka Expedition in May of 2000, and also the great hunting experience in the High Altai in Kazakhstan in September of last year just preceding the time I saw you at the ACS meeting in Chicago. I had told you that I had a bit more adventure than most folk would bargain on, being lost and marooned in the trackless Altai mountains adjacent to Mongolia in the vast Kazakh wilderness, but that I survived the experience even if my horse did not, having been hit twice by carnivores during the long and wearying night, once by a wolf, and finally by a grizzly. But, I scored an impressive trophy with the magnificent Maral stag, which you saw in a picture I showed you, as well as a roebuck, which I could carry back to my yurt, and is now in taxidermy. The magnificent Dall Ram that I had collected at very long range in the Brooks Range of the Arctic in the August just before is now home in Derwood in a magnificent mount by Marcus Zimmerman (see www.Zimmermanwildlife.com)
I have arranged the dates for August 19—31 for the hunt which will be coming through Anchorage to a flight reserved for you to Petropavlosk and on by chartered helicopter into the wilderness. Sergei, one of our guides will have scouted the area for prime trophy rams, as well as big bears (which they had to chuck rocks at to avoid spoiling the stalk on rams last year!) and we will come in to the remote camp on horseback. The trophies will be well taken care of and I might suggest we carry them back through Alaska for Russell Knight Taxidermy Services either for taxidermy or forwarding to Zimmerman—whom I highly recommend for superb taxidermy art on sheep.
I will be forwarding further information on the experience by fax and post, and if you can send me your email address (I attach my contact points on the enclosed “Signature” page) we can communicate more rapidly.
We could compare notes on our respective speeches on the same day to the international community of the ACS while in camp and, as respective professors in the ABC and GWU, you could write off such an educational experience!
I have been looking forward to our hunting together and comparing the trophies I have envied in the way you have displayed your taxidermy for some time. This may be a good way to start us off toward the hunts we have promised, both in Sonora or elsewhere in Mexico and in other exotic reaches to collect the kinds of memories you will see attached in the enclosures!
I am looking forward to it and hope that this might work out for you as well.
Once again, congratulations on this honor, and, Cheers! For adventures yet to come!
Glenn
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