hanistan is border towns .
me to negotiate a risky. forbidden. round-about route Afghanistan is through the town of Termez in southern " Uzbe��istl:m; BUIUw ith'\; foreign infiltration. Tajikistan presented itself as the only way to · lac;,.ႀ䊉I�: :F We:ntrl l : CI'i working with Tajik refugees in the war-tom south. My goal is to'l;Onr'lel1low� mieet: (ult� a'nd,i so I can continue on to Termez and Afghanistan. My journey wa=i',QclmQI,as 'smioolllllv. through this turbulent region. traveling illegally with no visa. no klil
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myself stuck on a 3.700-meter-high mountain pass in the wearing thin clothing. with only a glimmer of a chance to survive
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