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At an altitude of 3,650 metres, sport—even at a beginner’s level—requires stamina and training. Murghob, the highest town in Tajikistan.  Credits: Simone Bergonzi (Italy, @simobergz)

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At an altitude of 3,650 metres, sport—even at a beginner’s level—requires stamina and training. Murghob, the highest town in Tajikistan. 

Credits: Simone Bergonzi (Italy, @simobergz)

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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, […]

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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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In the few villages along the Pamir highway, you will always see children playing outside. They are sometimes the only signs of life in these seemingly deserted high mountain towns. But what a life! Alishur, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Credit: Etienne Bellard (France, @etienneblld)

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In the few villages along the Pamir highway, you will always see children playing outside. They are sometimes the only signs of life in these seemingly deserted high mountain towns. But what a life! Alishur, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan.

Credit: Etienne Bellard (France, @etienneblld)

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Two men cross the village of Alichur on their motorbike. Behind them, the typical landscape of Pamir in Tajikistan: desertic plains with peaks in the background, and a small river running alongside the road. Credits: Etienne Bellard (France, @etienneblld)

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Two men cross the village of Alichur on their motorbike. Behind them, the typical landscape of Pamir in Tajikistan: desertic plains with peaks in the background, and a small river running alongside the road.

Credits: Etienne Bellard (France, @etienneblld)

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Like small rocks in the vastness of the Pamir mountains, the lorries using the M41 road between Tajikistan, China and Kyrgyzstan are blocked by roadworks near Vanj, in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. This emblematic road, which is barely paved and on which traffic can be very difficult, is an important commercial and political issue in […]

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Like small rocks in the vastness of the Pamir mountains, the lorries using the M41 road between Tajikistan, China and Kyrgyzstan are blocked by roadworks near Vanj, in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. This emblematic road, which is barely paved and on which traffic can be very difficult, is an important commercial and political issue in the region.

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From the fortress of Yamchoun, the view stretches far out over the Wakhan corridor with its still snow-capped peaks, as well as the free-flowing meanders of the Panj river. Credits : Novastan

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From the fortress of Yamchoun, the view stretches far out over the Wakhan corridor with its still snow-capped peaks, as well as the free-flowing meanders of the Panj river.

Credits : Novastan

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