Khyber Pass (Iconographic document) - Demski, Dagnosław (1992)
Photography (scan from a slide). Landscape with mountain road leading to Khyber Pass on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is the main road from the west to the Indian subcontinent, known and described in the literature for hundreds of years. Currently the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Areas inhabited by Pashtuns. On the slopes of the mountains traces of homes posed in this harsh climate. Photo from 1992., A few years after the withdrawal of the Russian army in Afghanistan (1979-1989), and before the outbreak of a new conflict. Because of the war this area is currently (2013) dangerous and inaccessible
Keywords: ethnography; social culture; social life; material culture; Khyber Pass; Pakistan's border with Afghanistan