The Pamir Knot

All photos by Jack Wheeler The Pamir Knot of Eastern Tajikistan, the Wakhan of Afghanistan, and Northern Pakistan. Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. About 55 million years ago, the giant subcontinent of India, which had been drifting north for tens of millions of years after breaking off from the supercontinent of Gondwanaland, began crashing into the Eurasian … Continue reading The Pamir Knot