Friendship gallops across the Kazakh steppe

Dressed in black, Tao Mingxiu gallops across the vast steppe in Kazakhstan, her left hand holding the reins and an eagle perched on her right arm. Her striking silhouette, captured in a short video, has earned millions of likes on social media.

Known to her fans as "Tao Tao", Tao is a horse-loving young woman from Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province, and a social media influencer with nearly 10 million followers across multiple platforms.