GETTING INTO GER

Tatler spent a week at Genghis Khan Retreat in Mongolia’s Orkhon Valley, where the region’s fascinating history is met with great hope for its future

By Coco Marett

TRAVEL In Mongolian wrestling, men don a sleeved uniform that covers the arms but exposes the chest. Legend has it, this is because once upon a time, a woman entered a wrestling match disguised as a man—Mulan-style—and brutally defeated her male opponents. To this day, to ensure this doesn’t happen again, all wrestling matches are fought bare-chested. The Orkhon Valley is filled with fascinating stories such as these. And one of those is that of the Giercke family. Christopher Giercke was a child actor in mid-20th-century East Berlin before becoming a film producer who worked alongside Francis Ford Coppola on Apocalypse Now (1979), and Cocaine Cowboys (1979) featuring Andy Warhol. Decades later, in 1993, while scouting film locations in Mongolia, he fell in love—not only with the vast expanse of…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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