Synopsis
Explorer Levison Wood stays with a nomadic people in their summer camp in northeast Afghanistan.
- Programme: Walking the Himalayas
- Episode: 1
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Geography | Human Environments | Rural and Urban | Rural Settlements
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