They told me that snow leopards were extinct in caucus, putin I think introduced a few back. But when I told the local ranger about it he said "well maybe u saw the one that got lost".

I saw it on the mountain trail around 3000m at 11pm it was with a family of smaller cats. And the main feature was that it looked like a giant muscular cat with a huge tail. That was I think 2018 in elbrus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518241&forum_id=2#47586980)