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Pakistan - Mountains

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  • A woman returns from the winter pasture, carrying potatoes, over a suspended bridge above the Hunza river.
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  • The return home, after fetching wood for cooking in Khuramabad pasture, a two hour walk from Passu village, across the Hunza valley riverbed.
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  • In the winter pasture of Zor Abad, Zamrad Begum and Nasib Sultan gather wood for cooking and heating their homes.
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  • Through a poplar forest, a Wakhi woman brings apples that have been kept for winter.
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  • A group of Wakhi women comes back from their daily excursion across the Hunza riverbed to gather fodder and wood for their cooking fires.
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  • Teenager play on the roofs, in the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • Mr Sher Aziz, the Islamic religious leader of Hussaini village, Hunza region.
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  • Mother and grand daughter cooking Barove Giyaling (Buckwheat Pancakes).
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  • Traditional dishes from Hunza, all made from locally grown ingredients such as apricot, buckwheat, yak butter etc
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  • Women eating Burutz Berikutz (Fresh cheese chappati).
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  • Cooking Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • Flour is always grown in the village.
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  • Tasting, with a wooden spoon, a traditional dish of Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • Kids having tea. Hussaini village, Gojal region.
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  • Rock-salted milk tea.
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  • A young boy having rock-salted milk tea.
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  • Wakhi men in Shimshal. People living in the Hunza region are known for their exceptionally long life expectancy.
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  • Ploughing a future wheat field. Soon manure will be added to the soil, then the field will be flooded and then sowing will take place. In the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • A father and his son plant a cherry tree. In the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • A Wakhi woman picking Sea Buckthorn berries, know for their anti-cancerous faculties. In winter, the frozen berries are usually picked, as it is then easier to handle.
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  • Wakhi man cutting lamb meat with an ax. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains.
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  • Sheep herd in a sea buckthorn forest.
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  • A woman watches her sheep herd.
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  • Girl playing.
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  • A young duck hunter looks for cartridge.
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  • Duck hunters, Hussaini village, Hunza region.
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  • The result of a day hunting at high altitude.
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  • A Wakhi man catches a yak in Chapursan valley, Pakistan
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  • Foothills of the Pamir: the last sheep pen before the climb up into Afghanistan. Wolf and snow leopard predation is a big problem in the region.
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  • A glacier near the Afghan-Pakistan border - Pakistan
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  • Inside of a hat. Pakistan
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  • A unnamed peak on the Afghan-Pakistan border - Afghanistan
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  • 3 generations side by side. The interior of Sarfraz Khan's house, a Wakhi trader in Pakistan that later became one of the main regional manager at the Central Asia Institute..Mud house in Zood khun village (3300m), at the end of Chapursan Valley, at the border with Afghanistan, in the Pamir Mountains. Wakhis are Ismaili muslim, an ethnic group followers of the Aga Khan. Ismailis are known for their tolerance and their Islam with no veils nor Mosque.
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  • The interior of Sarfraz Khan's house, a Wakhi trader in Pakistan that later became one of the main regional manager at the Central Asia Institute..Mud house in Zood khun village (3300m), at the end of Chapursan Valley, at the border with Afghanistan, in the Pamir Mountains. Wakhis are Ismaili muslim, an ethnic group followers of the Aga Khan. Ismailis are known for their tolerance and their Islam with no veils nor Mosque.
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  • In the valleys below the Pamir plateau inhabited by Afghan Kyrgyz live the Wakhis, an ethnic group of Tajik origins. In Pakistan, this is the last house inhabited by Wakhis before heading past the rainbow into Afghanistan and the Pamir mountain range.
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  • Wakhi mother and her daughter, Chapursan valley. Pakistan.
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  • A sheep has been attacked by wolves overnight. Chapursan valley, Pakistan.
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  • Our first view of Pakistan! Going over the 4925m Irshad Uween pass, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in our last days trek....Adventure through the Afghan Pamir mountains, among the Afghan Kyrgyz and into Pakistan's Karakoram mountains.
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  • Below the Altit fort and above the Hunza river, a woman tends to her potatoe field. In the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • In the remote village of Shimshal, Baba Jan’s family gathers together to prepare dinner: chai and chapatis sprinkled with apricot oil.
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  • Preparing a dinner of maltashtze giyalin (Hunza pancakes), to be served with mulberry syrup and a cup of rock-salted milk tea.
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  • A group of Wakhi women comes back from their daily excursion across the Hunza riverbed to gather fodder and wood for their cooking fires.
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  • Rubina Ismail and Yahyah Naig pluck and cook ducks in the village of Shimshal.
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  • Preparing chalpindok, chapatis drizzled with a salty sauce of kurut (dried yak milk curd) and butter.
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  • After breakfast, a woman in the village of Altit checks on her baby, Hunza, Pakistan.
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  • A kitchen in a home in the village of Aliabad.
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  • The summit of Mt Rakaposhi, 7,788 m (25,551 ft) towering above Hunza region.
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  • In Ganesh town, Hunza region. During a funeral, cooking a traditional dish called Harisa : leg of lamb cooked with bruised wheat.
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  • Cooking lunch at the house of Mehbano, in Aliabad town, Hunza province.
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  • Preparing bread. Cooking lunch at the house of Mehbano, in Aliabad town, Hunza province. Making Qista dough.
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  • Cooking lunch at the house of Mehbano, in Aliabad town, Hunza province. Qista bread.
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  • Cooking lunch at the house of Mehbano, in Aliabad town, Hunza province. Shhikerkutze Hoi dish (Potatoes and greens called Fenugreek).
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  • Cooking lunch at the house of Mehbano, in Aliabad town, Hunza province. Making Shuro (large bread).
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  • At the house of Tehmina and husband Majeed Ullah Baig, relative of the Mir (King) of Hunza. Making traditional dish of Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • Making traditional dish of Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • Making traditional dish of Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • At the house of Tehmina and husband Majeed Ullah Baig, relative of the Mir (King) of Hunza. Making traditional dish of Apricot soup called Haneetze Doudo. In the old village of Karimabad, Hunza province.
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  • Making and eating Burutz Berikutz (Fresh cheese chappati). Cooking diner at Shahid Karim's house, in Altit village, Hunza region.
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  • Below the Altit fort and above the Hunza river, a woman tends to her potatoe field. In the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • Preparing breakfast of chappati (flat bread), butter and salty milk tea. In the old fortified village of Altit, over 1000 years old, Hunza region.
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  • Women in a public minibus. In the village of Altit, Hunza region.
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  • Cooking at Shahid Karim's house. In the village of Duikar, above Karimabad village, Hunza region.
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  • Butter is preserved by wrapping it into Birch bark and burrying it in the ground for several months in winter.
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  • Abandoned boats. Devastation upstream from the 30 Kilometers Abbotabad Lake, result of a huge landslide that took place in January 2010.
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  • Going to get wood for cooking and heating in Khuramabad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Passu village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • Going to get wood for cooking and heating in Khuramabad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Passu village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • The kitchen of Bano, in Passu village, Gojal Region.
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  • A woman return from the winter pasture, carrying potatoes, over a suspended bridge above the Hunza river near Passu village, Gojal region.
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  • Women go every day to get wood (for cooking and heating) and hay (for animals) in Zor Abad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Hunssaini village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • Women go every day to get wood (for cooking and heating) in Zor Abad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Hussaini village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • Zamrad Begum and Nasib Sultan cutting wood (for cooking and heating) in Zor Abad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Hussaini village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • Women returning with potatoes after cutting wood, in Zor Abad, a winter pasture two hour walk from Hussaini village, across the Hunza valley riverbed. Gojal region.
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  • Lunch at the house of Doostik, in Hussaini village, Gojal region.
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  • Family portrait. Lunch at the house of Doostik, in Hussaini village, Gojal region.
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  • Khasiat Numa's home. Cooking Chalpindok, a dish made of stacked chappatis sprinkled with salty sauce made out of Kurut (dried yak milk curd) and butter. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Khasiat Numa's getting water.In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Group of Shimshali men stretching ibex skin to make traditional shoes out of it. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Banafsha making apricot oil by hand. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Finely grinded apricot kernels are sprinkled with water and pressed on a large heated stone. in a mortar. Banafsha making apricot oil by hand. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Holding the wing of a duck. Plucking, and cooking ducks. February is hunting duck season, as the migratory animals return fat from India, on their way back to Siberia. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Chappati (flat bread) and kid's toy. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • A father makes his son drink. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Soaked dried apricot. Traditional Wakhi dishes. In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Nanga Parbat, 8,126 m (26,660 ft), 9th world's tallest mountain, Karakoram mountains.
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  • View over the Karakoram mountains.
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  • A woman walks on the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • An exploratory trek in the Basho valley, Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan.
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  • Walking on the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Camping in the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Young boy of Balti origin in the village of Kachura, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • A young woman half way immersed in water at a lake near the Kachura village, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • The son of the Raja shows off a traditional gun used for festive ceremony such as weddings, at Khaplu town, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Hasni, a poet, sings a song in his native Balti language, of Tibetan origins. Skardu, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Young polo players on the edge of Skardu town, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • On the Baltoro glacier, the trek leading to K2 basecamp, the world's second highest mountain, a trekker stop below a huge ice block. Karakoram mountain range, Baltistan, Pakistan.
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  • In Chilma Rabbot, below the Boroghil pass entering Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, whinowing wheat. Matthieu and Mareile Paley trekking with a donkey named Clementine over 5 high passes across the Hindukush, between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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  • In Deosai plateau, a park ranger shows us the way Himalayan Brown Bears sleep. Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Balti students after school, in Baltistan, a province bordering Kashmir, located in the heart of the Karakoram. Baltis have tibetans origins and their language is an archaic form of tibetan. They are now Shia Muslim, and were buddhist 600 years ago. Pakistan
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  • A sand dunes scenery close to Skardu, capital of Baltistan in Northern Pakistan, in the heart of the Karakoram mountains.
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  • A wall full of Pakistan history, including many images of Benazir Bhutto. In Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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