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Jun

Cities & Society

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Pamir Highway: Roads as Lifelines and Fault Lines

The Pamir Highway begins in whispers. Asphalt emerges from Dushanbe’s dense urban fabric and slowly winds into hills, climbing toward the high plateaus like a ribbon laid across the bones of the Earth. Officially known as the M41, this road is one of the world’s highest international highways, crossing passes over 4,000 meters as it…
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Feb

Cities & Society

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Roads and Passes: Human Traces in High Mountains

At the top of a mountain pass, the air thins until every breath feels like effort. The road unwinds beneath you in tight, improbable switchbacks, carved into slopes where rivers tumble a thousand meters below. Trucks grow small like toys on the hairpins. A prayer flag flutters against stone. There is a moment of silence…
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Jun

Land & Ecosystems

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Roads and Passes: Tracing History Across Mountains

At sunrise, the road climbs in silence. Engine off, the only sounds are the hiss of a cooling radiator and a marmot’s whistle rolling across a high valley. Hairpin by hairpin, the Pamir Highway (M41) climbs from the dusty Kyzylsu basin toward the Ak-Baital Pass, the highest paved point in the former Soviet Union at…
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21

Mar

Cities & Society

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Remoteness vs Connectivity: Roads in High Tajikistan

At the first light of dawn, the Pamir Highway seems almost empty- just a thin ribbon of asphalt unspooling through rock and sky. A truck grinds up a long incline, leaving a wake of dust and echoes, and for a brief moment the only sound is the wind. From here, where the road cleaves the…
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