Cycling the Karakoram Highway

From Kashgar, China to Islamabad, Pakistan from August to September 1995

Kashgar Sunday Market.....................................................................................................................................................................................................

Cemetery near Sayyid Ali Khan tomb.....The beginning of the highway.................The majestic Pamirs.............................abandoned prison camp......................

The Tarim basin on the Ghez river...........Mount Kongur (7,719m)........................Home at Bulun Kul...............................Keith Bradley and Steve Palmier..........

Muztag Ata (7,546m) with children.........The Family Jazzoo................................Subash village......................................The Tagh Arma Basin.........................

Approaching the border...................................................................................The Khunjerab Pass (4730m).................and into Pakistan...............................

The 'Karakoram' meaning 'black crumbling rock'...........created by the collision of three 'plates' of the earth................................................................................

Local richly decorated truck...................Fertile fields at the bank of the River Indus..................Spiritual mountains at Sust and Passu......................................

Suspension Bridge...............................Passu Glacier.......................................River Indus...........................................Altit Fort...........................................

The Hunza Valley - 'The lost Kingdom of Shangri-la'...........................................Fairy Meadows.....................................Nanga Parbat (8126m).........................

Pattan village........................................Komila bazaar, Indus Kohistan..............making lahti.........................................dentist advertising sign.....................

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