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Every morning, the girls from the Khan's camp are in charge of getting water all throughout winter in sub zero temperature. They have to dig hole in the ice to hope and find the spring that always freezes overnight..Qyzyl Qorum campment, Abdul Rashid Khan's camp (leader of the Afghan Kyrgyz). .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

Every morning, the girls from the Khan's camp are in charge of getting water all throughout winter in sub zero temperature. They have to dig hole in the ice to hope and find the spring that always freezes overnight..Qyzyl Qorum campment, Abdul Rashid Khan's camp (leader of the Afghan Kyrgyz). .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