A short jaunt in the Afghan Pamir
September 7th 2010 The path crawled up and up, out of Sarhad-e-Broghil and past the last vestiges of civilisation, the few lonely mud and stone huts and irrigated fields that clung loosely to the outskirts of the village at the end of the 200km road that led east from Ishkashim. Sarhad was apparently at 3300m above sea level, and the pass we had to cross today about 1000m higher, but any thoughts or feelings of tire
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denis
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Horns
Hi Ed, Sorry to tell you this but this is a photo of Ibex horns not the horns of a Marco Polo sheep. Denis Belliveau Author and filmmaker of "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo"