Western China, Kyrgyzstan Trip, August 1999

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A section of the Karakoram Highway was damaged by floods.
KKH14_road_damage.jpg		 Karakul Lake, just North of China-Pakistan border
KKH20_sandhill.jpg		 Yurts at Karakul Lake
KrK01_Yurts_snow.jpg		 Heavy snow in August
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Krk23_snowhill.jpg		 Mt. Mustagh Ata (7546m)
Krk39_328_MstgAt_lan.jpg		 Karakul Lake
Krk40_327_2camels.jpg		 Linda taking a short ride at Karakul. Photo courtesy of Phil Anderson
Linda on Horse.jpg		 Mt. Kongur (7719m) in the clouds.
Krk43_324_kongur_rflxtn_dtl.jpg		 Mt. Mustagh Ata (7546m)
Krk47_320_MstgAt_morning.jpg		 Silk on display at Kashgar's Sunday market
Kshgr5_315_hanging_fabric.jpg		 The crowded Sunday market at Kashgar
Kshgr6_314_SunMarket_Por.jpg		 Uygur twins
Kshgr8_312_UgrTwin.jpg		 Mao statue in Kashgar, probably gone by now.
Kshgr_Mar_far.jpg		 Yak farm in Northern Kyrgyzstan
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YkFrm23_534_Hrdsmn.psd		 The helicopter pad in Kazakhstan that serves both Khantengri and Pobeda basecamps.
TS01_531_Kzk_IntlCamp.jpg		 Russian 6x6
TS05_527_6X6.jpg		 We took a helicopter ride to the basecamp of Khantengri. Here is the helicopter, our pilot, and guide.
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mountains_adj.psd		 Unknown peak in Tian Shan mountain range.
TS25_507_ridges_side.jpg		 One of the many knife-edge ridges we saw on our way to Khantengri basecamp.
TS26_506_steepface.jpg		 Mt. Khantengri and Engelchik Glacier. Tian Shan mountains, Kyrgyzstan.
TS31_501_Ktngri_glcrbed.jpg		 Mt. Khantengri (7005) at the border of China, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
TS36_620_Ktngri_pk_udr.jpg		 An Iranian mountaineering team loading the helicopter at the basecamp. We later learned that they just successfully climbed Mt. Pobeda (7439m).
TS38_618_HeliLoad.jpg		 Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
Osh04_607_LeninLan.jpg		 We spent the last 3 days of our trip trekking in Ak Cai Mountains, just North of Bishkek.
AkCai10_720_fog_prt.jpg		 Ak Cai
AkCai20_710_rock_moon.jpg		 Glacier at Ak Cai
AkCai21_709_glcr.jpg		 Ak Cai
AkCai22_708_clds.jpg		 Ak Cai
AkCai29_701_Glcr_LS.jpg		 Ak Cai
AkCai40_813_pk_por.jpg		 Ak Cai
AkCai42_811_pk_lan.jpg		 Linda jumping over a crevasse.
AkCai44_809_LS_jump.jpg		 Glacier
AkCai46_807_glcr.jpg		 The brand new high-speed train took us from Guanzhou to Hong Kong in 2.5 hours.
GZ08_908_train_inside.jpg		 We stopped in Hong Kong for a day before heading back to San Francisco. I had neither the skill nor the equipment to photograph the breathtaking view of Hong Kong skyline. Here are a couple of pictures scanned from postcards.
00_HKBlue_PostCard.jpg		 We stopped in Hong Kong for a day before heading back to San Francisco. I had neither the skill nor the equipment to photograph the breathtaking view of Hong Kong skyline. Here are a couple of pictures scanned from postcards.
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