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View towards Sekr Yanj ("Red Canyon"), our camp for the night. The tiny red bag on the left, that’s mine –this is the point, of no return for us, at the end of this valley, to the right, is the pass leading into Pakistan. Trekking up the Tash Köpruk valley, leading to the Irshad Pass (4950m) into Pakistan. Guiding and photographing Paul Salopek while trekking with 2 donkeys across the "Roof of the World", through the Afghan Pamir and Hindukush mountains, into Pakistan and the Karakoram mountains of the Greater Western Himalaya.

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View towards Sekr Yanj ("Red Canyon"), our camp for the night. The tiny red bag on the left, that’s mine –this is the point, of no return for us, at the end of this valley, to the right, is the pass leading into Pakistan. Trekking up the Tash Köpruk valley, leading to the Irshad Pass (4950m) into Pakistan. Guiding and photographing Paul Salopek while trekking with 2 donkeys across the "Roof of the World", through the Afghan Pamir and Hindukush mountains, into Pakistan and the Karakoram mountains of the Greater Western Himalaya.