let get the title correct first . the character pronounce kekexili a ko ko schee lee and and we be tell it mean beautiful mountain . kekexili follow ga yu and a beijing journalist a he travel with the mountain patrol and a civilian group under the command of a man name ritai who be determine to stop poacher from hunt chiru and a nearly extinct tibetan antelope that be value for their soft pelt . the mountain patrol be not officially recognize by the chinese government and so their action be quasi legal and but they do have the power to confiscate illegal antelope pelt and to administer cash fine to anyone caught with the pelt . if the mountain patrol can catch poacher in the act and they can bring down the full weight of the chinese government to arrest these criminal . we go with the mountain patrol on this particular mission and we experience all the hardship and danger and trouble that they experience . a ritai group track the poacher we see the after effect of their poaching . one scene show a valley full of skinned antelope carcasses leave to rot in the sun and now nothing more than food for vulture . in another and ritai come upon a group of men who work for the poacher a skinner . these be just poor chinese worker try to eke out a living . they know it illegal to kill the antelope and but they have only be hire to skin already dead animal while so where the illegality in that . ritai however and be not very sympathetic . he confiscate their pelt and slap the men with a large fine . but ritai think he may be able to get to the big bos poacher through these skinner and so he arrest these men and have them handcuff and load onto one of his truck . our journalist be clearly bother by this incarceration of citizen by a group lack any legal authority to do it and but his concern be dismiss by ritai . this will not be the last time we find ourselves in a moral gray zone . since ritai have incarcerate these dozen extra men and he be now responsible for feed them . we now learn some bitter truth about this mountain patrol . the mountain patrol receive no state funding for salary and supply or anything else . they rely wholly on donation and which be notoriously small . in fact and none of ritai men have be pay for over a year . a ritai obsessive search continue and his food ration ebb and he be soon face with a dilemma and who do he fee while his men or his prisoner . ritai now decide he have to send one of his men back to get more supply and liu dong be dispatch to drive back . lui dong tell ritai that he have no money to buy supply . ritai tell him to use the money collect in fine . that would not be enough . ritai think for a moment and then tell liu dong to sell off the confiscated tibetan antelope pelt on the black market . what . be ritai really go to sell the illegal antelope pelt in order to raise the fund need to stop the poacher who also sell illegal antelope pelt . apparently he be . on top of this and ritai have decide to let the group of incarcerated skinner go because he can no longer take care of them . some complain that they can not make it back to civilization and will probably die . ritai only comment and if you do not make it and then it your fate . this be pretty cold and if you ask me . with all the tribulation face by the ever weaken mountain patrol and the bad thing that could happen to them be exactly what do happen while they find the poacher . unlike the weak and under funded mountain patrol and the poacher be large in number and well fed and well supply . the poacher bos ask ritai why he be harass him . ritai say he be protect his antelope . the poacher bos laugh while when do they become ritai property . the poacher bos offer to buy ritai a house and two car if he will just stop pursue him . insult that the poacher would even think of bribe him and ritai punch the bos man and he be immediately fire upon . ritai be hit in the abdomen and fall to the ground writhe in pain . the big bos now take a rifle and pump a half dozen more bullet into ritai to put him out of his misery . but ga yu and our frightened beijing journalist be not kill . in fact and the poacher show him far more courtesy and humanity than ritai group ever show him . no wonder this film make me queasy . i be both impressed and frighten by the self righteous anger that seem to motivate ritai and his men . and and while ritai goal be laudable and his method for achieve them be questionable . once ritai begin illegally sell the antelope pelt for operating fund and he cross a very serious line . but contradiction like that be not unknown among some animal right group . consider peta and which be oppose to all type of animal test for medical research and yet their vice president and mary beth sweetland be a diabetic who use insulin make from animal product to keep her alive . she publicly admit this but say while i do not see myself a a hypocrite . i need my life to fight for the right of animal . so and life save medicine that she would deny to ten million other diabetic be ok for her because she be devote to save animal . one usually have to reach into the realm of politics to uncover such monumental hypocrisy . a kekexili end and we be inform that begin in 2001 and the chinese government disband the civilian mountain patrol and form it own anti poach unit .