Protected: The unbelievable filmmaking feats of our American friends on the Kuril expedition.

A new day dawned in the Karavshin valley in Kyrgyzstan. By morning the weather had once again turned so fine that… the joy of being alive was boundless – and infinitely so! The only thing taking the edge off was that, yet again, we had to pull off some physical endurance feats that simply don’t […]

September and the rest of fall are once again seeing me get caught up in a whirlwind of business trips – when I’ll have no time at all for getting on with my tales from the Karavshin and Oka River side. So let me crack on during these here few days in the office between […]

And so – tomorrow had arrived on our Karavshin mountain trek in Kyrgyzstan!… We were to be heading off up into those gorges over there – where gigantic granite skyscrapers shoot up some four or five thousand meters, where glacial moraine landscapes spread out in every direction, where the streams run with “glacial milk” (rock […]

Our rambling along the Karavshin route in Kyrgyzstan continues… Next up for us was a three-day out-and-back leg toward some seriously contemplative views in the gorge that goes by the same name – Karavshin – plus the Asan-Usen glacier, plus some plain old mind-blowing granite peaks. First, we got ourselves to our next camp (name: […]

What a joy it was to wake up to rays of bright sun after a rainy, foggy day of lousy weather on the Karavshin trek in Kyrgyzstan! The weather, clearly, had seen the error of its ways and decided to make amends. Bless. Bliss!… Breakfast, packing up our things, handing over the non-essentials (the stuff […]

Salam elim! On the Karavshin trek across the Pamir-Alay mountain system, summer weather is normally glorious. Mornings bring guaranteed blue skies, by midday a few insignificant little clouds might swell up (or possibly rather more significant ones); and toward evening there might be a fine drizzle. At night the clouds dissolve, and whoever’s lucky enough […]