Saturday, November 15, 2008
A full description of the Mountain Ranges of Afghanistan
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Climbing with Bruce Watson from Hokitika, in the Kohi Anjuman Range in August 1996. We were at about 5000 metres when I took the photo. Pho...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Kuchi or Kachchhi nomads - India and Afghanistan
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Kuchi nomads in Afghanistan In late 1993 when I moved to Afghanistan for 3 years, I started taking a deep interest in Kuchi nomads and over ...
Monday, November 10, 2008
To sit by the Samovar
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Nomadic Kyrgyz boiling water in a Samovar for tea. Note the silver coloured Sanovar at the ankles of the man who has a wood supply around hi...
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Buzkashi, the mountain metaphor
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Buzkashi, the mountain metaphor A frentic crowd of 10,000 gathers in the shadow of the Hindu Kush. A few fruit trees display the first pink ...
GEOLOGY, SOILS. GEMSTONES AND WEATHER IN AFGHANISTAN
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Afghanistan's mountain ranges developed in the alpine Orogeny, though some traces of previ-ous uplifts had also survived. During the oro...
Return to Afghanistan 2003
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4 April 2003 RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN On 10 March 2003 I returned to Afghanistan for 3 weeks to work with the Afghan Red Crescent Society. It w...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Spies, soldiers, diplomats and ordinary people
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An old Tajik man at Jami's gravesite in Herat, prays for peace. Photo: Bob McKerrow Shabibi Shah in Afghanistan during the 1960s The o...
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