Hunza in 1953

[mikhurram]

The end.

[ka_khan]

Outstanding Photos.Thanks a lot for sharing these jewels with us.Share more if you have.

[M Farooq]

Nice share. God has blessed Pakistan with everything one can imagine in terms of natural resources ... but still the present situation makes me sad :-(

[saqib]

interesting post

[mikhurram]

I have also have images of hunza from another national geographic article dated 1975 and was thinking of posting them along them images of Pakistan from National Geographic Magazine dated 1952, 1967 and 1977 but the board quota seems to full.

[mikhurram]

Here are some photos of Hunza which appeared in November 1975 issue of National Geographic written by a French couple. Those who may be tired of seeing these photographs should take solace as they are the final pictures to be posted. even though they i still have photographs of the 1987 and 1994 edition.

Some of the Hunzakuts even live up to 120 years which became the covering story in the January 1973 National Geographic and the reason was their their simple organic diet consisting of fruits, vegetables which is very frugal as they eat only two light meals a day, even though they perform extremely laborious physical work for hours at a stretch and spend hours hiking daily along steep mountainous paths. The life style of Hunzakuts till the late 80's remained the same.

In contrast we tend to overeat sometimes two or three times more than the requirement of our body organisms. However not all is well with the diet of Hunzakuts as diseases like Goitre (swelling of the neck) occur due to lack of iodine salt in their daily diet.




Majestic Himalayas


Dragging a Yak across the river.


Karakoram highway being build

[rafique]

wonderful.

[KBW]

Khurram sahib, thanks a ton for this wonderful share. I have great memories of this area. Have been tracking a lot here in various valleys, going up to Wakhan in the north and Mantika pass towards China. Tracked along the remnants of ancient silk route as well on mantika pass where one can still trace remnants of old caravan Sarais.

With a submerged KKH and the fascinating blue waters of Ataabad lake, this area looks quite different now. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Regds

[KBW]

Khurram sahib, thanks a ton for this wonderful share. I have great memories of this area. Have been tracking a lot here in various valleys, going up to Wakhan in the north and Mantika pass towards China. Tracked along the remnants of ancient silk route as well on mantika pass where one can still trace remnants of old caravan Sarais.

With a submerged KKH and the fascinating blue waters of Ataabad lake, this area looks quite different now. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Regds

[mikhurram]

KBW sahib, i am glad you enjoyed reading this post. Franc and Jean Shor were the first westerners to travel through the Wakhan corrider from Afghanistan which became immortalised in Jean Shor book "After you Marco Polo". After crossing the Wakhan corrider they landed in Hunza by sheer coincidence in 1950. The book written by Jean Shor is fairly interesting and is out of print but old copies are still available on Amazon, alibris and other book sellers. An abridged version of their trek appeared in the November 1950 issue of National Geographic titled "We took the Highroad in Aghanistan". I have included the text of this article in the following url.
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