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Mountain view. The Pamir is part of the greater Himalaya. It’s all the way West and doesn’t get hit by the monsoon. So it’s a very lunar landscape, where vegetation stands out. All the water comes from shrinking glaciers high up. Trekking from Baiqara camp into the Tash Köpruk valley, leading to 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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Mountain view. The Pamir is part of the greater Himalaya. It’s all the way West and doesn’t get hit by the monsoon. So it’s a very lunar landscape, where vegetation stands out. All the water comes from shrinking glaciers high up. Trekking from Baiqara camp into the Tash Köpruk valley, leading to 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.