Life in Pakistan's Hindu Kush: Beauty and Peril in Isolated Chitral

Tucked against the Afghan border in the folds of the Hindu Kush, Pakistan's Chitral region has long asked something profound of those who live within it: the willingness to accept beauty and danger as a single, indivisible offering. Its valleys and peaks reward the traveler who makes the difficult journey, yet the same geological forces that sculpted this landscape continue to move, sending rockslides and avalanches through communities with little warning. As climate patterns grow less predictable, the ancient bargain between these mountain people and their mountains is being quietly renegotia