Fifteen seconds of chest-mounted bodycam footage, timestamped 2024-06-18 10:27:36, shows a mountain rescue worker carefully lifting a tiny baby goat from a rain-soaked landslide slope high above mist-covered terraced rice fields — the animal’s cream-white fur soaked through and matted with brown mud, its wide eyes fixed on the rescuer.

The video opens on the goat standing alone on a narrow band of unstable ground, the slope falling away beneath it. Heavy rainfall has softened the hillside, and loose earth shifts under every step. In the distance, green terraces drop toward a swollen muddy river, small rural houses huddled at the field edges.

The rescuer, in a dark olive-green waterproof mountain rescue jacket and heavy tan gloves, steadies their position before moving in. One gloved hand supports the goat’s upper chest while the other slides beneath its body — slow, deliberate, no sudden movements. The little goat answers with a soft bleat, then goes still, as if it understands.

Step by careful step, the rescuer moves the animal away from the unstable edge toward a wider section of the mountain path, mud sliding beneath their boots. By the final seconds the goat is cradled securely against the rescuer’s chest, blinking calmly, its breathing steady — the mist-covered terraces still stretching out behind them.