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A dealer (Right) comes to sell opium to Khaltcha (Left) who is severely addicted to the drug. She is one of the rare Kyrgyz woman to have done the several weeks trip down the Faizabad to get treatment for her addiction. So far it has failed and she has always relapsed into addiction...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

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Contained in galleries: Pamir, Winter 2012

A dealer (Right) comes to sell opium to Khaltcha (Left) who is severely addicted to the drug. She is one of the rare Kyrgyz woman to have done the several weeks trip down the Faizabad to get treatment for her addiction. So far it has failed and she has always relapsed into addiction...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.