Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips
bySitting and scrawling now, pen-on-paper, sweat-smudged and soggy my notebook as I crouch in a shady corner of the “tribal area,†a raised platform…
Pakistan
The Longest Ride: Comin’ down the mountain when we come
byThere was so much more we could have done in the north: the three-day Rakiposhi Base Camp trek; the hike from the village of…
The World Roof Hotel
byHere it is, our home for a week-and-a-half in the village of Karimabad. The town’s water comes from the Ultar Glacier, pictured in the…
Rash Lake Trek: The Highest We’ve Ever Been
byNay, not the famed “Peshawar Original†hashish, smuggled to the Northern Areas from Peshawar’s main bazaar by many a young Japanese pot tourist. Why…
The Mir of Hunza, Part 2
byOur reception at the Royal Palace was short and official, about the minimum of what our imaginations had conjured up; we were led directly…
Himalaya, Mountain Mama: The Hunza Valley
byWhile Pakistan struggles with a severed submarine Internet cable (the communications ministry, apparently, had misled the country for years about the existence of a…
Trail Magic
byWhen thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail receive random acts of hospitality and kindness from total strangers, they call it “Trail Magic;†and when round-the-worlders…
Why We Traveled to Pakistan: Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and our search for Dr. Stewart
byWe did not come to Pakistan simply to wander the country for travel’s sake. That we are able to do so — to browse…
Next up, on the Rawalpindi runway…
byJoshua is cool and casual in his new, custom-tailored shulwar kameez, 100 percent cotton with Chinaman collar and straight cut flaps; design and fitting…
The Mir of Hunza
byThough only 600 kilometers on the Karakorum Highway, the bus trip from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, is an arduous 18-hour ascent, sometimes longer when there…