This paper describes the Smithsonian Institution’s expedition to Mongolia in the summer of 2007 with a structured light system to collect 3-D scan data of stone monoliths from the Bronze Age. This expedition was characterized by traveling in Russian all-terrain vehicles for more than 1,200 miles across country and on dirt tracks, passing through rivers without bridges, changing weather conditions, extreme temperature differences each day, sandstorms and thunderstorms, being many miles from any modern civilization, and scanning under the stars.