thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月25日 09時17分

Photo by @bethjwald // As night falls, Kyrgyz man and a boy carry lambs from stone corrals back to the mud huts where they live at a Kyrgyz winter camp, about 14,000 feet in the Little Pamir, Wakhan Corridor, northeast Afghanistan. The lambs, who were born in December and are too young to survive the frigid winter temperatures, are put with their mothers just long enough to nurse twice a day; the rest of the time they are kept in the same room where the herders eat and sleep. 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, when temperatures can dip to -40 Fahrenheit and the wind blows almost constantly, and especially for women and girls. But despite many challenges, including increasing rates of opium addiction, the Krygyz 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 ten years ago, during a hard, month-long January journey on foot through the road-less and icy mountain landscape 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. I will be posting more photos from this series – looking back ten years ago- through the week. #Afghanistan #wakhancorridor #Pamirs #Kyrgyz #mountainculture #Badakshan #sheep #frozen #roofoftheworld #mou

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