18/10/2019 1 Comment The Pamir highway, our Everest momentSome of our previous blog posts talk about the Pamir and the struggles we had along the way as well as the amazing things we saw. The Pamir plateau was a place of absolute silence, of salt-soaked earth, of red/ green/ yellow mountains and dust tornadoes. Wide open spaces, forlorn villages, and long stretches of empty road.
All in all, from Samarkand to Osh, we biked for 31 days, plus 8 rest days, and did 1816 kilometres. We climbed 9 passes, 5 of which were over 4000m. But there were countless more hills, meaning that in total we climbed 19,262 altimetres. We biked while it was snowing twice, had one puncture, one broken chain, one broken stove and a lost water filter. It was a pretty epic journey through the mountains, the pinnacle of our trip and a great way to end the Central Asian chapter of our cycling tour.
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P Benians
22/10/2019 04:15:31 am
Great and fascinating blog
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