Ice-fishing in Mongolia I SLICE

In the snow-covered plains of northern Mongolia live the Tsaatan nomads. They rely on fishing to gain a meager existence, but the lakes in the taiga are shallow and the ice thick. So they have to come up with an idea to spot the fish and catch it.
Sticks, nets and a bunch of joyful experts: that’s all it takes to do it. It may not be the greatest catch, but they’re surely having fun. And if it ends with a family diner by the fire under the tent, what more could we want?
We followed these Mongolian fishermen in their methodic, unusual and peaceful fishing process. A fishing trip in Tsaatan territory…
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[@james.morris247]

So peaceful. It's beautiful to see people living simplistic and patient lifestyles. Very refreshing and calming.

[@ZainalArifin-hy6qu]

Sungguh sangat bahagia mereka tidak mengenal Amerika

[@stsbmu7169]

I am Mongolian and I've thought that reindeer Dukha people speak more of paleo-Siberian or Turkic dialects but when I listen to them they speak more like Mongolian dialect. But probably it is somehow recent transformations of their language

[@invalidaccount6147]

You know, finding a Mongolian comment is very rare.

[@stsbmu7169]

@@invalidaccount6147 Really? Actually, I have seen some below.

[@minni_x]

The guy singing while he works makes me so happy 🥺

[@onahu88]

They had me when they showed up riding the Danm deers with huge racks 👏👏

[@donwatson8257]

I guess Rudolph has a day job

[@Asdfghjkl1234]

@@donwatson8257 hahahaha

[@Bedroom_Musician]

Same here. This is my first time seeing a man riding in a raindeer

[@soliwan1932]

Mongolia is my dream country to be in. Love from 🇪🇹

[@ronyay3586]

Suppose anywhere would do you..'

[@leehenry5925]

these people value what they have and appreciate it

[@Shayoyeye5223]

They deserved to catch more for all that hard work.

[@alsaunders7805]

Yeah, kinda like crabs, more work than the calories you get from it. 🤓🍻

[@JuanMartinez-ez5hp]

thats how fishing is tho, maybe from time to time they catch some good fish(bigger) but there are times when they fish only a handful or nothing.

[@citizennoble9231]

and to think that thousands of years ago these people conquered and ruled most of the earth :/

[@mattiasdahlstrom2024]

They will probably reuse the holes. It looks similar to it’s done in Scandinavia by those few who winter fish with nets

[@raphaelverde4571]

@Jack Gull gfy

[@OKBushcraft]

No gloves, nothing covering their ears, howling winds... much respect.

[@tsiam359]

美妙的旋律！ 濃濃的蒙古風情~~~ 令一個身為海島國家的台灣人嚮往…… I love Mongolia ❤🇲🇳 I'm Taiwanese 🇹🇼 Taiwan is not a part of China

[@IqbalSingh-hr1is]

ok

[@user-js2dy6rs6i]

日本人は好き？私は中華民国台湾が世界で一番好きだよ！

[@aseertimeibra2524]

We know Is part of US

[@bladetv799]

NEXT LEVEL FISHING 🎣 LOVE FROM INDIA ❤️

[@mabellee424]

Extremely cold, hard , tough and exhaustion ways of living . Most of all they find Happiness, Simplistic and Joyfulness ! 💕👍🙏

[@Pakdoto]

woke up and saw this, best morning ever

[@ronyay3586]

Get a life

[@imcurious2731]

This was Beautiful! I can't believe their dedication, wow and here Some of us think that, we've done something out of Ordinary, by going Steelhead or Salmon fishing in the Rain or Cold winter day!! I'm Sure no Cold weather that I've experienced, comes even Close to their Extreme cold!! Can Someone at "SLICE", tell me, what species of fish that was, to me with limited View, it looked like either a Salmonid or maybe an Unusual "Strain"/Race of Arctic Char!! I'll formally give Credit in a book that I'm writing!! Thanks 😊

[@DJ-ep1zk]

This is in Khuvsgul. So it should be one of the lenok, salmon or sturgeon. We call them “white fish”. But I don’t know much about fish. So I don’t know 😅

[@user-ns2ej7ws1x]

วิธีชีวิตที่เงียบสงบไม่ต้องพึ่งพาความหรูหราในสังคมคนเมือง มันช่างดีเหลือเกิน ผมเป็นคนไทยน่ะครับ

[@theweatherisaokay4964]

7:58 that smile, its contagious! 😊

[@sunilkantakhumujam517]

Anyway sustainable fishing…. Love it 😍

[@unclebro2390]

Wow thank you for bringing us the world 💞

[@timothylee7315]

Genghis Khan already introduced Mongolia to the whole world long time ago.

[@dr.bamadevsigdel4390]

Hard work , endegeneous technique of fishing by nomad Mongolians!

[@whogivemethishand]

The sound of chipping wood Teik Teik just like water,ice enjoying your day thank you

[@enkhzayazundui1063]

They are just having fun. They were saying it is good that ice is not that thick here and telling each other instructions such as push to the right , to left. Seems quite a team work. 😁

[@williammadray7818]

Instantly freaked me out when I realized that the dudes were riding reindeer.

[@basumatarytoon7185]

I'm Bodo tribe from India and Mongolians are our ancestor 😘

[@mnrebel11]

I kinda wanna travel there and bring them some ice fishing gear from Minnesota...

[@user-rv4qq4gy5y]

Dog is one of my best domestic animal and also the faithful animal in the world...

[@danielobriot3116]

What time of year is this . looks like it is first ice in the late fall . thanks for sharing. Nebraska USA 🇺🇸

[@StrawmanScarecrow]

I am so happy that I have a fish market near my house

[@ballistic350]

Ima try this style ..this coming ice season lol

[@Skinny_Buddha13]

I just love these documentaries.

[@irinamiklashevskaya4605]

What a survival humans have 😍

[@yveslandry6985]

The same technique is used in Northern Quebec by Innu and Naskapi First Nations.

[@laaylagi6503]

They are Mongolian descendants

[@diannaclarke2758]

How do the fish get more oxygen under the ice?

[@kevinpayne5825]

This is wicked cool! Possibly salmon with the forked tails

[@robertneighbors4091]

Wow, cowboy Mongolians riding in on giant horned Raindeers . . . .

[@D-B-Cooper]

There is another method of pulling a net under the ice that was used in North American. It is using a diver board that when pulled heads down at a steep angle and then floats up at a slant away from you. You keep working it until you can get the string at the other hole and then use it to pull the net . Having ice you can see through is pretty important hear either way. Guess you could also make the second hole when you have reached your extent instead of having to steer it to hit an existing hole.

[@ronyay3586]

thats what she said

[@JackTheReaper758]

@@ronyay3586 I see ur a virgin

[@blakebailey23]

First scene and they’re riding in on reindeer. Love it

[@Moha-vu1de]

Nolol qurux badan ❤

[@fritzbrazil329]

I'm addicted to this channel

[@hvacdr]

woah i didnt know people could ride reindeer! i want one!

[@goatgate3815]

Excellent content thank you

[@milabs862]

🙌🙌🙌 up why so good in narrating 😉..great videos 👍

[@user-xm8cu4kl5r]

Молодцы 👍

[@andreybobrov6684]

Как тысячу лет назад😊🇷🇺

[@kaloofficial1722]

Amazing 🥰

[@Longrunthefox]

Great people 👏

[@martinreyes257]

good slide but what kind of fish? folks

[@mikethompson5966]

these guys need a frabill sponsorship, give them rods fish finders ice shelters and a lil buddy heater! i bet they would catch way more if they used a rod and jigged.

[@citizennoble9231]

they need ghengis khan.

[@69jbr69]

As an avid ice fisherman I agree but when you show up on a reindeer it doesn't matter if you catch any fish or even fish at all. You have already won.

[@user-co6sy9fu8g]

Да уж.!!! А монгольское мясо самое дорогое в мире !!!

[@mariolopez-ri8wd]

nice video beautiful Mongolia love from northern michigan united state

[@zhimohoax9413]

Oh men you deserve 1m subscribers...

[@novemberuniformromeounifor1240]

Beautiful people ❤️

[@abdulhayee6108]

So beautiful and peaceful

[@oneofusall]

If you don't eate you will get cold very fast and it won't be peaceful and beautiful anymore.

[@BushCampingTools]

fantastic doc

[@sproge2142]

Man, they're brave hacking away with the hatchets like that, I'd lose my grip and sent it to the bottom of the river for sure! 🤣

[@lagonatasha8582]

Love this channel

[@charlesleblanc6638]

A very strong, skilled, and rugged people.

[@imcurious2731]

To onahu 88 those deer are called Caribou and here in North America, We have Very big species in the U.S. & Canada ! The ones in Asia and Europe are Smaller and Europeans call them Reindeer 🤠😀

[@jamalbacko7571]

Bless yous all love yous xoxoxo

[@johnbelesis]

for people that are into fishing this is mindblowing. how do they know the spots? the currents?

[@custodioelmarfortes4037]

Quanto mas difícil Á vida,mas DURO são os Homens (CONCEIÇÃO DO ARAGUAIA PA. 🇧🇷 )

[@TP-ne6ez]

Somebody tell them to use their Bass Pro credit card points and get an auger and some tip ups🤷‍♂️

[@ronyay3586]

Ermmmmmm, no bud.

[@DennisH22A]

Skip all that. They just need to run over to Costco and buy some fish. Duuuuuhhh

[@faisalraja3356]

Thanks so much this I am like

[@YouTubeUzername]

I had no idea you could domesticate a reindeer to the point of riding and using them for work.

[@donwatson8257]

Popular in Lapland

[@zimzansiradio]

Humans are super intelligent...our survival instinct is our secret weapon

[@irinamiklashevskaya4605]

When people see this they think the are suffering.. tho it wrong lot of people live to live in cold places and in this mode. Look at Philadelphia what is better? This people want to live like this tho to be able to survive the need lill help specially with medicine. This is how we have lived inany generation's.

[@JJ-kj4dy]

all that work and whole day for 5 fish...i dont know man... i'm hungry just looking at the raindeer

[@Bedroom_Musician]

This is my first time seeing a man riding in a raindeer.🤔 Looking so Cool & weird man 😍 Imagine the temperature over there and while we are using cooler/Ac to make ourselves cold here.

[@doscoronitas]

No Tuna?

[@citizennoble9231]

and to think that thousands of years ago these people ruled most of the earth... what the hell happened?

[@zjzjbigfishcatches7740]

Riding deer to go catch the big one on ice! Smile? Z

[@hieuromvn]

what fish?

[@thebenefactor6744]

I don't get it. Where's the beer?

[@kra776jisnik]

Bear the fisheries and forestry inspector banned it .

[@dorothy8036]

The real Santa 🎅

[@yukonjack9030]

Hey! There's Hakuho!

[@michaelwilbur4320]

After doing all of that work I would want to go get some coffee and take a nap

[@citizennoble9231]

you take a nap and when you wake up all the fish already been eaten.

[@michaelwilbur4320]

@@citizennoble9231 I figure but I dont live where those people do and I've never ice fished

[@marcrochefort4483]

Send those boys some Frabill TipUps and an ice auger. They are working way too hard for 4 fish.

[@milabs862]

i love the team work out there 🙌🙌🙌👍

[@motivationaltalks29]

I didn't know antelopes can be saddled too. They so cute.

[@---Blue]

They're not antelopes lol

[@tsiam359]

真辛苦，只有抓到4尾

[@jamescoughlan8193]

Now that's blast freezing your catch right there no chance those fish would spoil.

[@dejavu666wampas9]

I’m from Minnesota and have ice fished all my life. This is outstanding ‘technology’. However, I’m not sure how badass cold it is. You can’t see their breath. The air has to be incredibly dry. And around a lake and woods, that’s doubtful. It’s a mistake movies make all the time. That said, these men are badass anyway.

[@eveneeee]

@@dejavu666wampas9 It is windy so that is probably why you don’t see their breath

[@eveneeee]

@@dejavu666wampas9 also mongolia is inland, it does not have a coastline. So less moisture. Anyway it is below freezing with a lot of wind, so it is definitely cold enough to freeze the fish

[@dejavu666wampas9]

@@eveneeee -Good points all. Internet civility is a thing for me, so thanks for being civil and not calling me names or telling me to go to hell. Below freezing I’ll grant you. BLAST freezing, as the OP stated, is a stretch. Maybe you’ll get blast freezing, but I’m not sure. I’ve ice fished when it was pretty cold, and it took a bit for the fish to freeze. For sure, these guys are getting blasted by the wind. I’ve got no beef with the OP; sorry if I offended you, Mr Coughlan. Actually, I’d be interested to know if you pronounce your name rhyming with ‘cough’, or with ‘cog’. Let’s all go have a beer and a sandwich.

[@emptyset00]

wow - these dudes are riding reindeer and have pet wolves! legit! Not much fish for all that effort, though...

[@munkhbatganaa4453]

Энд нэг гоё авчих гээд бна гэж үнэн хэлжээ

[@PratapSingh03]

Wao I like it

[@prissypants2336]

True living....

[@drlehman73]

Do we know which lake this was?

[@citizennoble9231]

i dunno, i'm too dumb to read the video description at the top of the page -.-

[@tugo8354]

İts ain’t much but honest work

[@mopsymane]

Nice edit there at 9:38

[@asimally9468]

HARD WORK ...LESS FISH...

[@aliwaris8609]

Meat is very good for our health 😂😂

[@ganbatdulam4854]

цэвэрлэж сур!

[@colingreenlees1536]

It's the word Satan in the title that puts me off .

[@fabz84]

They need new fish net to catch more fish .

[@jonelcelespara8301]

💯

[@ayangayim4444]

Riding reindeer ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@Kenan-Z]

These people call themselves as "Tsaatan" but they are termed as "Dukha Turks" by anthropologists. I'm from Turkey and I caught common words occasionaly when they were speaking. They've kept our original lifestyle and stayed close to our ancestral homeland in eastern Siberia (Orkhon). We've moved westward and settled in Anatolia, our Turkic dialect (Oghuz Turkic) taken many loanwords from the neighboring people, so much so that we cannot communicate with the original Turks nowadays.

[@otgonerdeneenkhbaatar9334]

well netting is againts law in mongolia

[@AnshuSingh-ul2st]

Adventurers video

[@pedrotampos2877]

yesss

[@TitaSim]

I bet it's pitch dark under that ice, some of them fish probably froze to death.

[@citizennoble9231]

well under the water is not always like you see in spongebob squarepants kiddo

[@TitaSim]

@@citizennoble9231 😂

[@christopherjenkins6154]

I think I'll just go to the chippy 😊

[@haknee]

Whats a chippy ?

[@christopherjenkins6154]

It's where you buy fish and chips Great British food 😁

[@haknee]

@@christopherjenkins6154 Lol 😂

[@kra776jisnik]

@@christopherjenkins6154 a bit nippy hey !

[@Shayoyeye5223]

😂

[@kevintillotson4181]

A lot of work for 4 fish