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Trek to India
Himalayan Expedition Challenge
1956
Part 2

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July 3rd to August 2nd 1956. Istanbul (Turkey) to Zahedan (Iran).
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Locals drawing water from the village well.

Turkey Iraq frontier, near the town of Mardin.

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Ancient tomb built to a once exceptionally good headman of the village.

Near the town of Mosul

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Mosul (Iraq) to Zahedan (Iran)

View large scale map

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Going to market. Street scene in Bagdad

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Ernest Smeeton, desert scene

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Side note reads "Mysteriously turned up at my Mothers home 8 years later"

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A recent photo of the original map used on the trek, marked in blue the route 

between Qum and Yezd

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Ted Winks, Desert Scene

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Scene over the town of Yezd

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Walled village of Meyidi-Abad

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The Kerman Desert, a 300 mile desert hop with a lorry convoy

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The Kerman Desert, our worst experience of the sifffling horror of a desert sandstorm

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End of Part Two
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