Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: China-Afghanistan
Date: Nov 01, 2005 @ 12:17
Author: Richard Lam ("Richard Lam" <richardlam11@...>)
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----- Original Message -----From: aletheiakSent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:43 PMSubject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: China-Afghanistan--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <kirkman123@y...> wrote:
>
> It seems that many years ago National Geographic had an expedition
> traverse the Wakhan Valley of Afghanistan, and entered China via an
> established road, although "road" many be generous terminology.
> Anyone have any knowledge of the expedition?
>
> It certainly would be a coup if anyone can come up with pictures of an
> actual border crossing anywhere along the Afghan-China border.
>
> Kirk
yes all the data we have seen here strongly suggest all 7 or more afcn passes are still
ungraded pack trails
but with a good deal of traffic on them nonetheless
the expedition article you seek may possibly be the one given under michaud 1972 in the
bibliography at the end of this article
http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ejos/pdf6/dor-final.pdf
& i think richard & i have probably both come up with good purported pix of the afcn
border all right
at least for the time being
if not actually pix of any certain crossing
& all thanx to your original initiative
so we can already be delighted & grateful for all of that
but at the same time
i think the certain bp coup would be if anyone comes up with a picture of afcntj or afcnpk
or preferably
actually visits & reports here personally upon them
as they do appear to be the most remote & challenging tripoints of the entire world class