The Wakhan Corridor-a narrow strip of land carved during the colonial era-stands today as a haunting relic and a strategic vulnerability. It is an unchecked gateway through which Afghan-based ...

One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

Contending with snow, cold, and a tired donkey, Paul Salopek takes his last steps in Afghanistan’s Wakhan corridor as he and photographer Matthieu Paley navigate the Irshad Pass into Pakistan.

The Wakhan Corridor, a narrow valley located between the Pamir Plateau and the Hindu Kush mountains, stretches 400 kilometers, with about 100 kilometers located within China's borders. The ...

He bought it from one of the locals during a mountaineering expedition in the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan and paid extra for the carved attachment hook as wood is scarce in the region.

Beijing traveler Chen Dawei had journeyed to the Wakhan Corridor carrying memories of her late father and their shared devotion to Visitors on the Icy Mountain - a 1963 classic about frontier ...

The origins of the Wakhan Corridor lie deep within the geopolitics of the colonial era. In the 19th century, the British, in an attempt to establish a buffer zone between their colonial empire in ...