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ABOVE: the camp in the Wakhan-i-Pamir the morning after the team reached the ice cave; LEFT: (left to right) the author, Anthony Kitchin and Dillon Coleman in front of the ice cave; ABOVE LEFT: Mohammed Mirza, one of the horsemen, holds a trout caught by hand from among reeds in a small stream

Explore Afghanistan’s remote Wakhan Corridor – the jaw-dropping landscape and the simple day-to-day life of its people – with Wild Frontiers. In 2008, Wild Frontiers became the first UK operator to resume group adventure travel into the region, and it now runs trekking and cultural trips from Tajikistan into the Wakhan each summer. For further information, visit www.wildfrontiers.co.uk or call 020 7736 3968

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