Bibi Hawa pulling water container up the slope back to her house..Sultan's family is getting water in the morning..Campment of Tshar Tash (Haji Osman's camp), in the Wakhjir valley, at the source of the Oxus..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