I walked away from my tent, to a higher place for better reception. The sat phone rang and my wife was on the line. There she was – from another world.
I saw them coming from below, in line, dust flying. They reminded me of some Hell’s Angels on their motorcycles, except way cooler. Sidol, Jumagul and Assan Khan were just back from checking the growth of grass at lower elevations. That grass will be used for animal fodder in the winter months. They drove those 1000-kilogram beasts with incredible skill down steep valleys and across rivers, blissfully unaware of their cool factor.
On my sixth expedition to the Wakhan corridor, shooting a story for National Geographic on the Out of Eden Walk (titled “Passage to Another Time”, Sept. 2018). A four-week trek from Afghanistan into Pakistan, across the Pamir and Karakoram mountains with writer Paul Salopek who is walking across the world on foot to retrace the ancient path of human migration.
Print Details
Format: Archival print, printed with pigment ink on acid free Hahnemühle paper.
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