Notes on the Geography of Pakistan: ChaprotChaprot lies in a side valley off the Karakoram Highway between Gilgit and Hunza. Make default image size smaller ![]() A jeep running up the Karakoram Highway from Gilgit can cross the Hunza River on this suspension bridge and head up the tributary valley to Chaprot. Think the bridge is old-fashioned? I draw your attention to the fifth chapter of Algernon Durand's The Making of a Frontier, 1900: "In the whole course of the river only two bridges existed, both of them twig rope suspension bridges..., and there was no other means of crossing the river when in flood." ![]() The day is chilly and wet. ![]() A girl casts a wary eye. ![]() Later in the year. You can bet there's an irrigation channel running at the top of the green. ![]() Rakaposhi rises above the staple apricots drying on the roofs. ![]() Apricots, apricots, drying everywhere. ![]() Each household finds its own drying surface. ![]() The doorway to the house is there on the left. ![]() A grandmother sits on the porch of a house more open to the world. ![]() The venue was his choice. How many American men would choose to be photographed surrounded with flowers? ![]() Father and sons. Any question about which is the eldest? Their father said the valley provided everything one could want--food, water, and wood for construction and fuel--but he still wanted all his boys to go down to the Punjab and seek higher education. ![]() After the formal picture--and better. ![]() No such luck for daughters, expected to withdraw from the world at about age 12. |
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