Having recovered Simon from his extended scouting mission, during which he shepherded 35 sheep 35 miles over 4 mountain passes, we stocked up on provisions and left Dushanbe for the mountains again. We got a ride east to the town of Romit, then hitched a cheap ride in an old army convoy truck, passing by [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Trip report 2
Posted in The first trip- 2007 on August 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Trip Report 1
Posted in The first trip- 2007 on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The bureaucratic maneuvering is at last complete. We are duly registered with Tajik KGB and clear to go paddling, no thanks to our own abilities. In fact, all our own work over our first few days here was worth exactly nothing. In the end we paid Ichboll at a tourism company to do it for [...]
Paddling into the Pamirs- the prospectus
Posted in The first trip- 2007 on August 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A team of three elite expedition kayakers proposes to descend over 100 river-miles of unpaddled tributaries in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, using two major rivers, the Muksu and Obikhingou, as access routes to the otherwise completely isolated whitewater of these tributaries.
The trip
Our team proposes to kayak two large rivers, the Muksu and Obikhingou, deep in Tajikistan’s [...]
