#Latest news with #AgarForestDaily Mail19-05-2025Daily MailDay our greatest big game hunter came face-to-face with 'the Maneater of Chowgarh'... and was only saved by his trusty Rigby rifle: ROBERT HARDMANOn the afternoon of April 11, 1930, the celebrated British big-game hunter Jim Corbett nearly met his maker. He was painstakingly following a trail through the Agar forest in northern India in pursuit of a tigress which had already consumed 64 people. The terrified locals were pinning their hopes on Corbett.
Daily Mail19-05-2025Daily MailDay our greatest big game hunter came face-to-face with 'the Maneater of Chowgarh'... and was only saved by his trusty Rigby rifle: ROBERT HARDMANOn the afternoon of April 11, 1930, the celebrated British big-game hunter Jim Corbett nearly met his maker. He was painstakingly following a trail through the Agar forest in northern India in pursuit of a tigress which had already consumed 64 people. The terrified locals were pinning their hopes on Corbett.