Subject: Re: China-Afghanistan<br/>
Date: Oct 31, 2005 @ 13:43<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1066968621">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Kirk&quot; &lt;kirkman123@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt; It seems that many years ago National Geographic had an expedition<br/>
&gt; traverse the Wakhan Valley of Afghanistan, and entered China via an<br/>
&gt; established road, although &quot;road&quot; many be generous terminology. <br/>
&gt; Anyone have any knowledge of the expedition?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; It certainly would be a coup if anyone can come up with pictures of an<br/>
&gt; actual border crossing anywhere along the Afghan-China border.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Kirk<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>yes all the data we have seen here strongly suggest all 7 or more afcn passes are still <br/>
ungraded pack trails<br/>
but with a good deal of traffic on them nonetheless<br/>
<br/>
the expedition article you seek may possibly be the one given under michaud 1972 in the <br/>
bibliography at the end of this article <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ejos/pdf6/dor-final.pdf">http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ejos/pdf6/dor-final.pdf</a><br/>
<br/>
& i think richard & i have probably both come up with good purported pix of the afcn <br/>
border all right<br/>
at least for the time being<br/>
if not actually pix of any certain crossing<br/>
& all thanx to your original initiative<br/>
so we can already be delighted & grateful for all of that<br/>
but at the same time <br/>
i think the certain bp coup would be if anyone comes up with a picture of afcntj or afcnpk<br/>
 <br/>
or preferably <br/>
actually visits & reports here personally upon them<br/>
<br/>
as they do appear to be the most remote & challenging tripoints of the entire world class</div>