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  • A yak, weighing about 700 Kg is caught before being sheared.  It is impossible to overestimate the importance of livestock to the Kyrgyz. Not only do they provide for most of the Kyrgyz's subsistence needs and serve as the medium of trade that allows the Kyrgyz to procure all the other goods they require, but livestock are also one of the main determinants of social status. In the Afghan Pamir, livestock equals wealth and is more valuable than money..Summer camp of Muqur, Er Ali Boi's place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • A yak, weighing about 700 Kg is caught before being sheared.  It is impossible to overestimate the importance of livestock to the Kyrgyz. Not only do they provide for most of the Kyrgyz's subsistence needs and serve as the medium of trade that allows the Kyrgyz to procure all the other goods they require, but livestock are also one of the main determinants of social status. In the Afghan Pamir, livestock equals wealth and is more valuable than money..Summer camp of Muqur, Er Ali Boi's place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • A Kyrgyz man is lassoing a yak to shear its wool. At the summer camp of Muqur, Er Ali Boi's place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • Yak rope
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  • A Painful process: before departure, a leading rope (= a rope used to lead the yak) is passed through the nostrils of the yak.  In Boraq..Trekking up to the Little Pamir with yak caravan over the frozen Wakhan river.
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  • After washing socks, Donkey G's rope is used as a laundry line. Winter camp of Mulk Ali, past Chaqmaqtin Lake.<br />
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Adventure through the Afghan Pamir mountains, among the Afghan Kyrgyz and into Pakistan's Karakoram mountains. July/August 2005. Afghanistan / Pakistan.
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  • Matthieu holding a small rope to secure Malang, a Wakhi man, on slippery ice above the river. Malang taking a short cut along a dangerous patch on the frozen river - yak caravan can not follow, it must make a long detour...Trekking up the Wakhan frozen river, the only way up to reach the high altitude Little Pamir plateau, home of the Afghan Kyrgyz community.
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  • A rope and ibex horns. In Boraq..Trekking up to the Little Pamir with yak caravan over the frozen Wakhan river.
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  • Putting a rope through the nostrils of a yak, to lead him..At the shepherd place of Aq Jilga, one of the first Kyrgyz camp when you  arrive in the plateau. Near Bozoi Gumbaz...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • Detail of a rope tied to a tree. Sarhad village, the end of the road in the Wakhan Corridor.
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  • Rope made of yak hair. Trekking from a Wakhi pasture called Warm across the wide snowfree Aqbelis Pass, entering the Little Pamir range. Guiding and photographing Paul Salopek while trekking with 2 donkeys across the "Roof of the World", through the Afghan Pamir and Hindukush mountains, into Pakistan and the Karakoram mountains of the Greater Western Himalaya.
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  • Yaks are guided on the ice - a rope passes through the yak's nostrils..Trekking up to the Little Pamir with yak caravan over the frozen Wakhan river.
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  • Putting a rope through the nostrils of a yak, to lead him..At the shepherd place of Aq Jilga, one of the first Kyrgyz camp when you  arrive in the plateau. Near Bozoi Gumbaz...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • On the flat roof of their home, men shake off and fold ropes after carrying dry hay to their home and putting inside a barn accessible from the roof.  The traditional life of the Wakhi people, in the Wakhan corridor, amongst the Pamir mountains.
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  • Man holding ropes that hold the Thongdrel. Rolling and packing of the Thongdrel. A Thongdrel is a large appliqué religious image normally only unveiled during tsechus, the main religious festivals in Bhutan. They are the largest form of thangka paintings in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tshechu of the Gasa monastery on the road leading to Laya. Tshechu are annual religious Bhutanese festivals held in each district on the tenth day of a month of the lunar Tibetan calendar. Tshechus are large social gatherings, which perform the function of social bonding among people of remote and spread-out villages.
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