Festivities kick off when a group of villagers catch a mountain goat and parade him through the streets.

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"We ate wild berries for breakfast and spit-roasted mountain goat for dinner, " she told the Moscow Times in 2002.

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With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.

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The solemn ritual sacrifice of a goat to the mountain is performed by villagers clad in their finest ceremonial dress, under the careful direction of a shibi (priest).

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Back then, the locals could not begin to understand why would ever scale a mountain unless you had lost a goat up one.

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Mountain bikes designed for scrabbling along goat tracks or the heart of forests are as superfluous and unsuitable for our purposes as gigantic 4x4 off-road SUVs are on the school run.

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Not long after the four-man team was inserted into a notoriously dangerous area of the Hindu Kush mountain range, tasked with capturing or killing a known al-Qaeda leader, two unarmed goat herders compromised their position.

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