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Pegasus Caving Club
aka Pegasus Club Nottingham
Trek to India
Himalayan Expedition Challenge
1956
Part 2
July 3rd to August 2nd 1956. Istanbul (Turkey) to Zahedan (Iran).
Locals drawing water from the village well.
Turkey Iraq frontier, near the town of Mardin.
Ancient tomb built to a once exceptionally good headman of the village.
Near the town of Mosul
Going to market. Street scene in Bagdad
Ernest Smeeton, desert scene
Side note reads "Mysteriously turned up at my Mothers home 8 years later"
A recent photo of the original map used on the trek, marked in blue the route
between Qum and Yezd
Ted Winks, Desert Scene
Scene over the town of Yezd
Walled village of Meyidi-Abad
The Kerman Desert, a 300 mile desert hop with a lorry convoy
The Kerman Desert, our worst experience of the sifffling horror of a desert sandstorm
End of Part Two
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