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Brad House, a former curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo, had joined me for
this trip to Chitral. At the Peshawar bazaar I had to find a taxi willing to take us the
1 20 miles to Dir, and after considerable haggling over the price, a driver agreed
to make the trip for the equivalent of twenty-five dollars. The car had a gasoline
leak which filled the inside with fumes, and the tires were so worn that we soon
had a flat. Then a wheel cracked. Although we had it welded at a village shop, we
soon ...
Brad House, a former curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo, had joined me for
this trip to Chitral. At the Peshawar bazaar I had to find a taxi willing to take us the
1 20 miles to Dir, and after considerable haggling over the price, a driver agreed
to make the trip for the equivalent of twenty-five dollars. The car had a gasoline
leak which filled the inside with fumes, and the tires were so worn that we soon
had a flat. Then a wheel cracked. Although we had it welded at a village shop, we
soon ...
Page 52
At Dir we rented a jeep for the five-hour trip to Chitral town. The road, we were
told, was open. However, experience had taught me never to expect a routine trip
in the mountains. Approaching the Lowari Pass, we commented on the complete
absence of traffic from Chitral, and soon the reason became apparent: landslides,
boulders, and uprooted trees blocked the road in many places, the result of a
cloudburst the previous day. After digging and rolling debris aside, we finally ...
At Dir we rented a jeep for the five-hour trip to Chitral town. The road, we were
told, was open. However, experience had taught me never to expect a routine trip
in the mountains. Approaching the Lowari Pass, we commented on the complete
absence of traffic from Chitral, and soon the reason became apparent: landslides,
boulders, and uprooted trees blocked the road in many places, the result of a
cloudburst the previous day. After digging and rolling debris aside, we finally ...
Page 97
The trip was scheduled to take two days, driving round the clock, but near the
village of Patan a Chinese crew had obliterated the road with a dynamite blast.
One day's wait, we were told. A night passed and much of the next day as the
Chinese worked slowly and steadily, impervious, it seemed, to the traffic jam of
about a hundred trucks, their drivers increasingly impatient, that now lined both
sides of the obstacle. By late afternoon the impassive workmen prepared to
withdraw into ...
The trip was scheduled to take two days, driving round the clock, but near the
village of Patan a Chinese crew had obliterated the road with a dynamite blast.
One day's wait, we were told. A night passed and much of the next day as the
Chinese worked slowly and steadily, impervious, it seemed, to the traffic jam of
about a hundred trucks, their drivers increasingly impatient, that now lined both
sides of the obstacle. By late afternoon the impassive workmen prepared to
withdraw into ...
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Mountains in the Desert | 115 |
Cloud Goats | 150 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya |
| Author | Jean Pruchnik |
| Photographs by | George B. Schaller |
| Contributor | George B. Schaller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Andre Deutsch, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0233972153, 9780233972152 |
| Length | 292 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General |
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