The Khan's son is taking the yaks out, scaring them off with a sling shot..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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Pamir, winter 2008, Afghanistan. Unvisited since 1972