2008 Highlights
New Edition of Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway
We contributed a new "Trekking in Northern Pakistan" chapter to Lonely Planet Publications' Pakistan & Karakoram Highway. Foootscray, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications (7th ed. May 2008).ISBN 1-74104-542-0
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Comments from Pakistan, June 2008
- "We appreciate your professional contributions towards tourism promotion in Pakistan particularly for the Northern Areas mountain communities who benefited and expect for the better future of tourism. Book cover is so attractive, presenting the best of its own." Saeed Jan, Misgar
- "Your works are great and commendable." Fazal Amin Beg, Gulmit
- "Congratulation to the new edition of LP ... Bohut Acha." Maqsood ul Mulk, Chitral
- "I am thankful to inform me about your new adition. I congratate you and your success. I have seen your new aditon in Madina with some tourists [who] came from England and looked its some pages too." Yaqoob, Gilgit
- "I [would] like to congratulate for the 7th edition of Lonely Planet, Pakistan and the Karkoram Highway." Ejaz ullah Baig, Baltit
- "I congratulate you on the publication of [the] new updated edition of Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway. We highly appericiate your contribution in promoting tourism in Northern Areas." Ghadir Shah, Passu
2007 Highlights
"Wakhan & the Afghan Pamir" in "Mazar-e Sharif & Northeastern Afghanistan" in Afghanistan. Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications (1st ed. forthcoming August 2007).ISBN 1740596420
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2006 Highlights
Middle of Nowhere
From the Publisher
Lonely Planet's Guide to the Middle of Nowhere is a celebration of travel, the pioneering spirit and the truth that our well-trodden world is still full of places untouched and untrampled - they're all around us, you just need to explore. We take you on tankers to the Antarctic, with armed rebels in Colombia, the neon madness of Vegas and on epic journeys through Africa. Spin the globe, throw away the map, head out and find your own Nowhere.
"The Roof of the World" about the Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan in The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere, a semi-pictorial coffee table book, is a travel literature anthology with descriptive essays of quintessential wide open spaces and the "middle of nowhere" (Lonely Planet Publications, pp 170-173, October 2006).
ISBN 1741047846
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Wakhan & the Afghan Pamir
Wakhan & the Afghan Pamir, a 16-page tourism brochure with descriptive text, route information and detailed two-page route map, published by the Aga Khan Foundation-Afghanistan (June 2006).
Read more about our activities in the Wakhan Corridor and the Afghan Pamir.
2005 Highlights
John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil returned to Wakhan for the second consecutive summer. They worked as consultants for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and Aga Khan Foundation-Afghanistan producing a report, Tourism Promotion in Wakhan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan (Kabul, Afghanistan, November 2005) that will be used to begin opening Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir to worldwide tourism.
At the end of their fieldwork, they trekked across the Irshad Uween, a pass from the Little Pamir to the Chapursan Valley in Pakistan's Northern Areas, their second consecutive legal international border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan made with the full permission of both governments.
2004 Highlights
Recipients of 2004 Shipton/Tilman Grant
John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil traveled to Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Their successful expedition to the source of the Oxus River in the Wakhjir Valley and across the Dilisang Pass to Misgar in Pakistan was supported by the 2004 Shipton/Tilman Grant awarded by W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Read the expedition report. Play the expedition slide show.
