Ask what counts as an adventure sport in Mongolia and most listings default to rafting, rock climbing, or paragliding. None of that exists here in any organized form. What Mongolia actually offers is narrower, older, and arguably more interesting: horseback archery, wrestling, and one small ski hill that runs entirely on manufactured snow. Horseback archery is the real draw Camps east of...

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