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Two shepherds, they spend all year herding sheep. Trekking with yak herder Mohammad and Malang up the frozen Wakhan River, the only way up to the Little Pamir..Winter expedition through the Wakhan Corridor and into the Afghan Pamir mountains, to document the life of the Afghan Kyrgyz tribe. January/February 2008. Afghanistan

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Contained in galleries: Pamir, winter 2008, Afghanistan. Unvisited since 1972

Two shepherds, they spend all year herding sheep. Trekking with yak herder Mohammad and Malang up the frozen Wakhan River, the only way up to the Little Pamir..Winter expedition through the Wakhan Corridor and into the Afghan Pamir mountains, to document the life of the Afghan Kyrgyz tribe. January/February 2008. Afghanistan