Faces of Wakhan, Afghanistan

Some footage, with music by Ensemble Tengir Too from Kyrgystan (second and third track) from a recent trip to the Wakhan Corridor in N.E Afghanistan. We travelled from Dushanbe in Tajikistan down to Ishkashim in the Wakhan, then travelled up the corridor, spending 9 days in the Hindu Kush where a new peak was climbed,and then crossed the Wakhan into the Great Pamir, where both the Wakhis and the Kirghiz were tending summer pastures. An unbelieveably beautiful area and a welcome contrast to all the negative press coming out of Afghanistan.. This area has never been ruled by the Taliban and you could not recieve a warmer welcome. For more information visits www.mountainunity.org.

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• Afghanistan
• Badakhshan
• peace
• mountains
• Wakhan
• Climbing
• Hindu
• Kush
• fighting
• taliban
• faces
• people
• kirghiz
• nomads
• mountain
• unity
• tourism
• tengir
• too
• kyrgyz
• pamir

[samuelmansfield]

Hi,

Thanks for interest in vidoe, the Wakhan really is an amazing part of the world! The mountain was in a place called the Qual e Hurst valley, but had no name and was unclimbed until we visited. You can read about the ascent here

If you google "American Alpine club Joel Fiddes " you can read about the mountain and ascent

Hope you enjoy and if you are considering visiting the area then I'd be happy to offer the limited information I have! Kind regards, Sam

[LAJAWARD]

HI this is one of the greatest video ever watched 1000 bravo for making this video wish one day i visit this beautiful place. God bless badakshan and the one made it.

[samuelmansfield]

@LAJAWARD many thanks , glad you enjoyed it. Hope to make a proper film there one day soon. Kind regards,

Sam

[MissNanik]

Good job!

[samuelmansfield]

@MissNanik Very kind, glad you enjoyed. Really is a beautiful place, worth reading about if you get the chance, might be surprised by what you find. Happy new year, sam

[SHANGRIPL]

Thank you for sharing this beatiful video. Afgan mountains and people looks absolutely amazing. Is it possible for you to tell us what is the name of the mountain, that appears about 2:15 here? Looks really breathtaking...

Cheers!

[Bbubbo]

@samuelmansfield Mr. Manfield..absolutely breathtaking video and very touching for "Afghans and friends of Afghans''. Just note that those who make comments otherwise are enemies of Afghanistan and against peace in Afghanistan, they are not Afghans and their loyalty is to those like to bleed my nation with their weapons, hate and proxies.They cant see the beauty of our Afghanistan because they are blinded by their love for "destruction" of my 5,000 yr old nation, such a FANTASY!

[syedmastanshah]

thank you very much for making this beautiful video thanks a lot

[afridiboy777]

Thisz truely awsaum!

Gud work

[borneo215]

@BornInAfghanistan excuse me decent from the most evil savage? are you serious if your an arab asshole you fukkers would rape your mother and have kids with your sisters back in the time afghanistan had an civilization read about the kushan lol you calling us a savage fuk you pieace of shit you bastard go rot in your ugly desert country you fukkin camel shit you are the savage ones read about the arab muslim conquest of afghanistan and india how you killed and forced my ancestors into islam

[borneo215]

your a good man for doing this i respect you alot thank you for caring and showing the world who we really are

[MrWalibayat]

Tanks for opploading this video. its really good video ;)

[neopogos]

Beautifull video. I'm pleasantly surprised there are still Kyrgyz living in Afghanistan, I thought the Turkish Army had airlifted the Afghani Kyrgyz all out off Afghanistan to Turkey during the long years of war, but apparently not all of them.

[sanjarsaqib]

How Nice could be travelling to this area