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Pamir Kyrgyz Nomads On 'The Roof Of The World'

Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately document their migrations and culture in an environment where temperatures, on average, rise above freezing for only two months a year.

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