What kind of person agrees to scale the mountains of Central Asia with you, week after week, month after month—inching over the ‘roof of the world’ on a foot journey spanning continents? These kinds of people:

#EdenWalk #ItsTheirWalkToo #SilkRoad @outofedenwalk @InsideNatGeo

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‘Strangers on our route were always surprised that I am a young woman doing what they think is a hard job. Even now I get calls from some of them asking if I’m alright after this long walk.’—Furough Shakarmamadova #Tajikistan

Story: https://bit.ly/2QzhZ0Q 

#ItsTheirWalkToo

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‘To be honest, the hardest part was to leave the walk after 14 days. I had no choice. I was hurrying from the trail to attend my own wedding.’—Safina Shohaydarova, who walked 200 km across the Pamirs in sandals. #Tajikistan

Story: https://bit.ly/3gCIjC7 

#ItsTheirWalkToo

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Safar Ali was our wrangler in #Tajikistan. The donkey got loose the 1st night. So he tied her to a rock. She pulled free. He retied her. Come morning, Houdini was gone again. Ali tracked her 25 km back to Kyrgyzstan: her home.

Story: https://bit.ly/2EG73fh 

#ItsTheirWalkToo

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Inayat Ali (left) was planting trees in the remote #Wakhan Corridor of #Afghanistan. He had an uncanny ability to calm people down. It was something to see. Village, farm or town, children took his hands & walked along.

Story: https://bit.ly/32u1yZo 

#ItsTheirWalkToo

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We were detained by ISI, #Pakistan’s secret police. Matthieu Paley was curled on a cot, mouthing lines back to a hidden phone: ‘An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind!’

‘You’re watching ‘Gandhi’’—I said—‘in an ISI safe house?'

Story: https://bit.ly/31zeJcm 

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Naveed Khan walked from the #Karakoram to the Indus plain. He cranked 200 mi on the Grand Trunk Road. Dodging trucks. Bent against gales of engine noise. Sneezing asteroids of carbon from his lungs. Howling jokes. #Pakistan

Story: https://bit.ly/2YFJPgE 

#ItsTheirWalkToo

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