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Summer expedition through the Wakhan Corridor and into the Afghan Pamir mountains, to document the life of the Afghan Kyrgyz tribe, one of the remotest high altitude communities in the world. Afghanistan

Setting up the new camp on the summer location. Afghan Kyrgyz are nomads. The skeleton of a yurt awaits its felt cover..The summer camp of Kara Jylga, Mullah Abdul Haq place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

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Setting up the new camp on the summer location. Afghan Kyrgyz are nomads. The skeleton of a yurt awaits its felt cover..The summer camp of Kara Jylga, Mullah Abdul Haq place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.