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Western efforts to help the Kyrgyz, especially with health education and medicine have failed so far. Often, the pills given away to alleviate headaches and other pains end up as part of the opium kit - ground up they are used to increase the effect of the opium...The Kyrgyz settlement of Tchelab, near Chaqmaqtin lake, Haji Bootoo Boi's camp...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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Contained in galleries: Pamir, Summer 2012

Western efforts to help the Kyrgyz, especially with health education and medicine have failed so far. Often, the pills given away to alleviate headaches and other pains end up as part of the opium kit - ground up they are used to increase the effect of the opium...The Kyrgyz settlement of Tchelab, near Chaqmaqtin lake, Haji Bootoo Boi's camp...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.