The American helicopter rides high above eastern Afghanistan, through a pass in the towering Hindu Kush range.
"Tacita has used white chalk to create these melting views of the Hindu Kush, " Ms. Christov-Bakargiev said.
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On one occasion, I visited the front lines in the savagely harsh Salang Pass through the Hindu Kush Mountains.
Bullard pointed to a primary geographical challenge: the Hindu Kush mountain range that bisects the country, roughly separating north from south.
Between mountains in the Hindu Kush range lie six, sky-blue lakes.
The three-day workshop will bring together experts, policy makers, local stakeholders, and managers of Natural Heritage Properties from Asian countries, mainly from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
American officials admit that Afghan forces don't have the ability to patrol the entire border, which cuts through the Hindu Kush mountain range, whose peaks exceed 20, 000 feet.
The U.S. military broke ground on the project last year to create a staging area for the withdrawal of U.S. troops on the northern side of the Hindu Kush.
Even though NASA Marshall in Huntsville, Alabama is at the helm, it's in cahoots with researchers in Central America, East Africa and the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region to carry out its goal.
With a confidence born of many years of travelling as a journalist a confidence that recalls the British imperial travellers of the nineteenth century Kaplan whisks us from the Hindu Kush to the Congo.
The rains came up from India, washing the Himalayas, filling the rivers of the Punjab, pouring down water on the Hindu Kush and on the plain that extends from the Khyber to Karachi.
We will never leave behind a sort of Switzerland in the Hindu Kush but we can make that country safe from terrorist training camps, which will make us safe back here at home.
Hindu Kush-Himalayan Glacier Monitoring Network, HKH-GMN, in HKH-FRIEND.
Not long after the four-man team was inserted into a notoriously dangerous area of the Hindu Kush mountain range, tasked with capturing or killing a known al-Qaeda leader, two unarmed goat herders compromised their position.
Careful observation of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region, an area where climate change could bring major impacts to people, have been relatively scanty, due to the difficulty of doing science in remote areas, compounded by political disagreements.
It was here, in March, 2001, that the Taliban, in the high fever of their zealotry, demolished two magnificent statues of the Buddha that had been carved out of the rock escarpments of the Hindu Kush, fourteen hundred years before.
The spectacular mountainous regions of Central Asia, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas, closed for many years to visitors from abroad, now attract growing numbers of foreign tourists attracted by the unique cultures and natural beauty of these hitherto isolated areas.
But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.
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