"Right." Snow leopards will meet other adult snow leopards briefly in time to mate or fight. The females will then raise their young, and once those adults leave, they will never again cross paths.

He doesn't say how many days he waited in snow, looking out, waiting for someone.

"Happy is not the word I would use," he responds. But he is trying to get to happy, he's just gotten to a lot of other things first. Confused, worried, surprised.