Hotels-live.com - Photo by @paleyphoto (Matthieu Paley). Back in 1999, at the impressionable age of 25, my girlfriend (here in a lake near Skardu) and I left New York with a one-way ticket to #Pakistan. We headed for the #mountains. They were gigantic and

Hotels-live.com - Photo by @paleyphoto (Matthieu Paley). Back in 1999, at the impressionable age of 25, my girlfriend (here in a lake near Skardu) and I left New York with a one-way ticket to #Pakistan. We headed for the #mountains. They were gigantic and treacherous; the people living amongst them were warm and touching. We opened up new passes, learned the language, went into the wild. #Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Pamir, year after year, we must have trekked over 3000 Kilometers. I was near K2 on 9/11. Soon I was asked to go photograph demonstrations in the streets of Islamabad. I tried, but it didn’t feel right – this was not the Pakistan I wanted to portray. I went back countless times to these mountains, more recently for National Geographic, shooting a story on the Evolution of Diet (September issue). Find out about my experience on PROOF : proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/12/we-are-what-we-ea... - For the FULL IMAGE SERIES, head out to @paleyphoto #latergram #evolutionofdiet #paleodiet #lake @thephotosociety @natgeocreative @Hotelslive by natgeo instagram.com/p/vVeLGqIVQD/ Follow #Instagram @Hotelspaschers instagram.com/hotelspaschers and @Voyageslive #Twitter #TeamFollowBack #Natgeo #Voyage #Travel #TFB #FollowTrick www.facebook.com/125048940862168/photos/a.801751693191886... via Hotels-live.com www.facebook.com/pages/p/125048940862168 #Retweet #TeamFollowBack #F4F #TityFollowTrain via http://flic.kr/p/pKYjKj