Rivers are usually the meeting point for women and kids during the day. This one is taken outside of Murghob shortly before sunset.

On Wednesday 8 April 2026, INALCO organised a multidisciplinary symposium (covering anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, photography, cartography, musicology, and more) dedicated to the Pamir region, entitled ‘The Faces of Pamir: the mountain lived, inhabited, spoken’.

Credit: Etienne Bellard (France, @etienneblld)

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