Highest-living mammalian predators on land

The rarely seen snow leopard (Uncia uncia), whose range extends across 12 countries in the mountainous regions of Central and southern Asia, has been photographed by cameras hidden at an altitude of 5,800 m (19,000 ft). During the 1990s, in the South American Andes mountain range, a puma (Puma concolor) was observed at the same altitude.

Moving footage of a snow leopard hunting a markhor (a species of ibex-related wild goat) were famously captured by a camera crew in remote mountains on the Afghan/Pakistan border, for the acclaimed Planet Earth series (BBC, 2006).