Chelab camp..Every evening, Kyrgyz gather their yak herds back to their camp..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