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  • A sand dunes scenery close to Skardu, capital of Baltistan in Northern Pakistan, in the heart of the Karakoram mountains.
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  • The son of the Raja shows off a traditional gun used for festive ceremony such as weddings, at Khaplu town, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • A wall full of Pakistan history, including many images of Benazir Bhutto. In Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • An exploratory trek in the Basho valley, Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan.
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  • In Deosai plateau, a park ranger shows us the way Himalayan Brown Bears sleep. Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • On the Baltoro glacier, the trek leading to K2 basecamp, the world's second highest mountain, a trekker stop below a huge ice block. Karakoram mountain range, Baltistan, Pakistan.
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  • Young polo players on the edge of Skardu town, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Walking on the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Young boy of Balti origin in the village of Kachura, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Balti students after school, in Baltistan, a province bordering Kashmir, located in the heart of the Karakoram. Baltis have tibetans origins and their language is an archaic form of tibetan. They are now Shia Muslim, and were buddhist 600 years ago. Pakistan
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  • A young woman half way immersed in water at a lake near the Kachura village, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • A young shepherd takes a break at his high altitude pasture. Trekking in Basho Valley..Karakoram mountain range, Baltistan, Pakistan.
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  • Hasni, a poet, sings a song in his native Balti language, of Tibetan origins. Skardu, in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Camping in the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • A woman walks on the sand dunes near Shigar town in Baltistan province, Karakoram mountains. Pakistan.
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  • Army personnel at the Airport  in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • Pakistan's Independance Day celebration (14th August), on the Polo ground in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • A clerk at the Airport in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • Doing a stunt demonstration. Fire jump. Pakistan's Independance Day celebration (14th August), on the Polo ground in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • Polo players. Pakistan's Independance Day celebration (14th August), on the Polo ground in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • A motorcyle in Skardu town, Baltistan.
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  • A polo horse. Pakistan's Independance Day celebration (14th August), on the Polo ground in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • A man climbs a submerged tree in the Kachura Lake, Baltistan region.
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  • A mullah in front of a wedding shop, Skardu town, Baltistan.
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  • Pakistan's Independance Day celebration (14th August), on the Polo ground in Skardu town, Baltistan region.
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  • Young Wakhi men and women leaving the Bulbulik music school. Gulmit village.
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  • All women go to meet the groom family. Kissing them as they arrive. Zahir and Mariyam wedding celebration (love marriage), Zood Khun village, Chapursan valley.
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  • Bride maids eating mutton off the bone at a village wedding ceremony.
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  • Gujar nomads  in the Deosai plains, taking their herds of goats and sheep.
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  • A student returns from school, offers a sunflower to the passing tourists. <br />
Shimshal village, one of the remotest village in Gojal region, upper Hunza.
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  • A young trekker takes a break, Karakoram mountains, Hunza valley.
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  • Apricots are gathered in a red scarf.
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  • A young Wakhi girl. Zahir and Mariyam wedding celebration (love marriage), Zood Khun village, Chapursan valley.
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  • Young Wakhi discuss outside a wedding.
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  • Three boys and a donkey, Yarkhun valley, Chitral.
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  • Students teach each others how to play Rubab at the Bulbulik music school in Gulmit village, upper Hunza.
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  • Tourist setting up camp above the Passu glacier, Karakoram mountains, upper Hunza.
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  • Two friends.<br />
Life in Chipursan valley. It is the most Northwestern part of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and China. The people speak the Wakhi Language and belong to the Ismaili sect of Islam.
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  • The Qarun glacier in the Karakoram.
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  • Young tourists trekkers.
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  • Boys swimming in Borith Lake, Hunza.
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  • View over the Attabad lake, upper Hunza.
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  • Old Wakhi man.
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  • Tourists entering Chipursan valley in a jeep. It is the most Northwestern part of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and China. The people speak the Wakhi Language and belong to the Ismaili sect of Islam.
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  • Gilgit, detail of a portrait at a camera shop.
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  • All women go to meet the groom family. Zahir and Mariyam wedding celebration (love marriage), Zood Khun village, Chapursan valley.
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  • Ismaili Scouts, at the entrance of the Jamat Khana, in charge of security and order.<br />
At the Jama Khan (Ismaili community home). During the yearly celebration of Imamat Day (11 July), a day to celebrate the crowning of the current Aga Khan. Ismailis usually celebrate this day with dancing and religious singing, sport activities etc. In Passu village, upper Hunza, Gojal region.
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  • Detail of school book.
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  • Two muslim men break fast during Ramadan.
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  • A tourist plays with fire at a camp site, Karakoram mountains.
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  • Students teach each others. At the Bulbulik music school in Gulmit village, upper Hunza.
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  • A French muslim man prays in front of the Karakoram. Hunza valley.
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  • Young Wakhi discuss on his motorcyle, outside a wedding.
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  • The bride's maids of a village wedding, Chapursan valley.
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  • The bride's maids of a village wedding, Chapursan valley.
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  • A man smoking opium in Chitral, near the border to Afghanistan.
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  • A doctor and his team crossing a glacier outflow to bring medicine to a village.
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  • Pakistan flag on the floor during Pakistan independance day.
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  • Potatoes offered to the guest in a field, Hunza valley.
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  • Boy and girl play at spraying water at eachother with a hose. <br />
Around Kamaris village, upper Hunza.
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  • Night shot of Passu glacier. Upper Hunza, Karakoram mountains.
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  • Boys and girls meeting at a village wedding, Chapursan valley.
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  • Two Wakhi sisters.
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  • Family of the bride gathers to gossip at a village wedding, Chapursan valley.
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  • Wakhi men dancing, during the yearly celebration of Imamat Day (11 July), a day to celebrate the crowning of the current Aga Khan. Ismailis usually celebrate this day with dancing and religious singing, sport activities etc. In Passu village, upper Hunza, Gojal region.
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  • Preparing sheep meat for the community. During the yearly celebration of Imamat Day (11 July), a day to celebrate the crowning of the current Aga Khan. Ismailis usually celebrate this day with dancing and religious singing, sport activities etc. In Passu village, upper Hunza, Gojal region.
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  • Trekking trail in the Yarkhun valley, Chitral, Hindukush mountains.
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  • After it fell as a cub in the water, this snow Leopard has been kept in captivity, near Sust village, Gojal.
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  • Sabrina, a Wakhi woman, picks turnip in her father's garden - she lives and study in Islamabad the rest of the year.
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  • Detail of a glacier in the Karakoram.
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  • Shadow and a hand in a bus.
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  • View over the Attabad lake, upper Hunza.
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  • Throwing flour out of the window, a Wakhi wedding tradition. Zahir and Mariyam wedding celebration (love marriage), Zood Khun village, Chapursan valley.
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  • A dust storm over Passu village.
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  • Traditional game while coming out of the Jama Khana: girlfriend and relative of the bride arguing the price of the groom's shoes with a man from the groom's family.<br />
 Wedding celebration in Gircha village.
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  • Trekking across the a suspension bridge, over the Hunza river.
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  • Girls and Boys playing above their village. In Passu village, upper Hunza, Gojal region.
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  • A young tourist boy run with a local girl.<br />
Life in Chipursan valley. It is the most Northwestern part of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and China. The people speak the Wakhi Language and belong to the Ismaili sect of Islam.
    MMi53134_160614_0079.jpg
  • Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang). September 2006.
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  • Approaching  dust storm.<br />
Sost is a village in Gojal, Upper Hunza, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It is the last town inside Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway before the Chinese border. The town is an important place on the highway for all passenger and cargo transport because all traffic crossing the Pakistan-China border passes through this town; the Pakistani immigration and customs departments are based here. Pakistan and China have opened border for trade and tourism at the Khunjerab pass.
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  • A marker on the trail, in Pakistan, near the border with China...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
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  • Near Shimshal pass...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
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  • Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_08.jpg
  • A shrine...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_14.jpg
  • A flock of geese migrating through the Karakoram, flying above 5000m...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_057.jpg
  • The way to China...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
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  • A female tourist stands half submerged in a lake in the Western Himalaya, in Pakistan. Kachura Lake is in Baltistan, an area known as "The Little Tibet of Northern Pakistan".
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  • Sleeping out under the star, at the border between China and Pakistan. Pakistan..Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_04.jpg
  • The way to China...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_16.jpg
  • Near Shimshal village...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
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  • A young shepherd...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang). September 2006.
    Pak_Braldu_906_12.jpg
  • Snow leopard pug marks...Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_19.jpg
  • Trekking through remote Karakoram, in the Shimshal, Braldu and Shaksgam valley, finding human remains in unexplored caves hinting to the existence of an ancient trading route between Baltistan and China. Summiting unclimbed 6000m peak. Northen Pakistan, on the border with China (Xinjiang).
    Pak_Braldu_906_10.jpg
  • In Chilma Rabbot, below the Boroghil pass entering Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, whinowing wheat. Matthieu and Mareile Paley trekking with a donkey named Clementine over 5 high passes across the Hindukush, between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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