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Pegasus Caving Club
aka Pegasus Club Nottingham
Trek to India
Himalayan Expedition Challenge
1956
Part 2
© Diane Wilson
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.
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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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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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