I had a talk with one of my friends working in Kabul on Saturday and he said the city looked so serene, covered with a blanket of snow. I re...

Here is a poem I wrote in 1976 when I was working in Afghanistan after a huge earthquake in Khulm, near Samangan. AFGHAN WIND Whisper wind, ...

Here is a poem from my book on Afghanistan about a mountain roadman. I met this man at about 3,800 metres in the Hindu Kush mountains buildi...

From the American Alpine Club Journal 1995 Mir Samir and ascent of P500. After years when it was too dangerous to enter the mountains of Af...

Afghanistan's mountain ranges developed in the alpine Orogeny, though some traces of previ-ous uplifts had also survived. During the oro...

Babur, the first Mogul Emperor who lived in Kabul, and when he died on his Delhi throne, he willed his body to be buried at the feet of the...

Pre-History The ancient mountains of Afghanistan have been inhabited for well over 100,000 years and contain a story which is still unfoldin...