thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月15日 07時20分

Photo by @bethjwald // A Kyrgyz girl carries a lamb through her family’s winter camp at about 14,000 feet in the Little Pamir with the snow-covered peaks of the Hindu Kush trip making a spectacular backdrop, in the Wakhan Corridor, northeast Afghanistan. The lamb was born in late December and is too young to spend the winter days with its mother and the rest of the flock as it forages for food in the cold and snow, so they are kept in a warm place at the camp for the day and then returned to its mother each evening to nurse. A small population of Kyrgyz live a nomadic life on the high plateau of the Afghan Pamirs, moving seasonally with their herds of yaks, goats, sheep, camels and horses. It is a hard life, especially in winter, and the Kyrgyz suffer from poverty, opium addiction and lack of education, but they also are proud of their culture, their ability to survive and their freedom on the “Bam-i-Dunya” or Roof of the World. The photo was taken exactly ten years ago today, during a hard, month-long journey on foot through the roadless, frozen mountain world of the Afghan Pamirs, part of a several year project to document the peoples of the Wakhan-the Wakhi and Kyrgyz, their ways of life, their relationship to each other, to their environment and to the wildlife of the Pamirs. The huge pay-off and privilege was being able to spend time with these families, some of whom I had met on previous journeys. Check out my feed @bethjwald - I will be posting more photos this week and next from the journey I took ten years ago through the winter landscape of the Afghan Pamirs! #Afghanistan #wakhancorridor #Pamirs #Kyrgyz #mountainculture #Badakshan #roofoftheworld #mountainjourney #onas

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