“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. ”
-Samuel Mansfield

A full account of the new peak that was climbed is posted here. The full scale of what he achieved is brought home to me in a couple of frames of that video.

I think that might be my wee brother!

holy moly, I'd better not show this to Mum and Dad