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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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