Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Afghanistan followup
From: hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:55:36 +0430
References: <732E59D3-A846-4AA0-832A-F46E330D8360@mac.com> <3B067229-09FE-4F66-9CD7-D1ADEDDEE098@frozenlight.eu> <0101202F-7674-4CDA-B2E0-B980A64F195B@aotera.org> <A1F420E3-AE07-428A-AE66-ECC7B95FAE42@mac.com> <F2B3D732-C50A-430D-AF9E-A9B8963A30CB@aotera.org>
 
Spencer - wonderful photo.  I doubt if I can get up there, but this  
conveys the physical majesty of this troubled area.

Hugh

On 4-Jan-10, at 10:12 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote:

> To get back to Leica photography, this (need-to-be-rescanned-now- 
> that-I-have-IT8-target) picture (K64/M4P/35 pre-asph Sumicron) near  
> Passu on the Karakoram Highway in the far northern part of Pakistan.  
> The peaks across the valley are quite high, probably around  
> 6000-7000M high. The road you see curving around the bottom is the  
> KKH, the main, and only, road to China built at a cost of  
> approximately one life per kilometre. It is, at best, a 2-lane road.
>
> <http://www.aotera.org/tmp/Scan-070514-0057.jpg>
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