The full reportage has been published in National Geographic Magazine and was awarded in Sony World Photography Awards 2019, IPA 2018, Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Award 2018 and MIFA 2019. Naadam, an annual, traditional sports festival (and a public holiday), is an important event for the Mongolian nation, dating back to the times of Huns. Horses with whom Mongols have been tied since the dawn of their history are for them a source of pride, wealth, and a determinant of social status. They win prizes in exhausting races over a distance of 15 to 35 kilometers (depending on the age of the horse). An interesting fact, however, is that their riders are only juvenile jockeys, aged 5 to 13, physically fit and lightweight. Girls and boys, often without shoes, in socks or flip-flops, without professional equipment, sometimes even without saddles, masterfully ride their mounts with great bravado. One cannot resist the impression that most of them were born in the saddle. Preparations for the competition are long-lasting and demanding, starting from ensuring the physical capacity of the horses, the special way of feeding them, ending with exhaustive training in the heat. The festival takes place in July, and it is the driest and hottest month in Mongolia when temperatures can reach up to 35 degrees Celsius. The competition itself is the accumulation of emotions and expectations. Jockeys nervously walk the horses at an improvised starting gate, a piece of net used to enclose small livestock farms. Shot from the gun and here they go. The kids are screaming and blindly whipping their horses, galloping through the steppe. Sometimes the horse loses the rider on the way and ends the race alone. After long moments full of tension and anticipation, the first competitors and their mounts reach the finish line, mud-spattered, covered in dust, barely visible.Dirty, exhausted, yet exhilarate.