53967. Breakfast at the airport - three small pancakes with forest fruits and honey (the only warm dish available), tea and a glass of hot water
Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. Present in the photos are Vedran Ferenčak from Zagreb, Holidin Pojonov with his daughter Farangiz Kudratulaeva from the village of Dehibolo, Marija Studenikina - Maša from Ekaterinburg and Aleksandr Kuznecov - Saša from Snežinsk, participants of the Chul-Bair 2024 Caving Expedition (organized by the ASU - Ural Speleological Association), as well as people from the hamlet of Har Ahar.
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53967. Breakfast at the airport - three small pancakes with forest fruits and honey (the only warm dish available), tea and a glass of hot water
53968. Airport departures of the day
53969. Vedran took a little nap in a Nap zone
53970. Departures at nine in the evening ...
53971. ... here in a little closer view - the destination is the first line in the second column.
53972. In the shadow of a shop house in the village center (1750 meters above sea level) - Farangiz and two donkeys, loaded with camping and caving equipment for three people, cave photo gear and food for three days. We added ten liters of water for the first day in the hamlet of Har Ahar just below the mountain wall.
53973. We took the shortest route, which rises directly from the village to Har Ahar at about 1900 meters above sea level, and from there zigzags the wall to the Karaha saddle in the Chul-Bair ridge at about 2300 meters. From there it proceeds with a gentle ascent to the cave at 2647 meters above sea level. The distance is about eight kilometers, four less than the usual route, which crosses the wall at a much lower altitude, two kilometers west of the village. The camp is about a hundred meters higher than the cave, to the left above the canyon. In the photo: the view from the trail to the south across the village to the canyon that leads to the Oltinsoy plain on the border with Tajikistan.
53974. Deep shadow - a willow tree by the bed of a stream, which is no longer here - sinks a little higher into an PE hard plastic water supply pipe, which supplies the village.
53975. Har Ahar (har in Tajik means donkey, and ahar means path) is a green oasis right under the Chul-Bair wall - the water irrigates apple and peach orchards (the winters are a little too cold for grapes), clover fields and vegetable gardens.
53976. Hajrulo
53978. Šahobudin with his son
53979. Inojatulo
53980. Firdaz
53981. Bahadur
53982. Hidojatulo
53983. Boy in a cypress grove
53984. Above the hamlet, the path turns to the west (away from Boybuloq), crosses a scree, and then continues along ...
53985. rock passages ...
53986. more and more steep, where the donkeys also have to be helped.
53987. You wouldn't even notice the path from afar,...
53988. ... it gets ...
53989. ... increasingly ...
53990. picturesque.
53992. Farangiz carried two sticks intended for cave lighting stands.
53993. View from the height over Dehibolo to the south
53994. On the Karaha saddle: Farangiz (15) and Holidin (48) with donkeys Mala and Kabut. Mala is 6 years old, and Kabut is 10. In the background is the Hodja-Gur-Gur-Ata ridge with several long and intertwined caves.
53997. From the saddle on, the path turns in the proper direction, towards the northeast, and winds more or less along an isohypse, which is walking friendly.
53998. Cows on a terrace by the trail
54000. View from the cavern above the trail; it continues with a low tunnel.
54001. The Kudrat bridge crosses the canyon which is here about ten meters deep. It was built by Holidin's father.
54003. Another canyon among many that descend from the top of the ridge perpendicularly to the rim, to the northwest.
54004. Kabut grazes in a depression under the canyon wall that runs past Boybuloq.
54005. View up the Boybuloq canyon. The entrance to the cave is in the dark spot to the right of Holidin.
54006. Dry puffball mushroom, measures approximately 12 x 15 cm.
54008. Face of dry algae ...
54007. ... on a rock.
54009. View of the caving expedition camp on the slope of Chul-Bair. Behind it is the Boybuloq canyon, and a little further on is another canyon. They can only be crossed in a few places.
54010. Camp kitchen with Maša
54011. Saša ...
54012. ... and Maša
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*For greater accuracy the cyrillic names in this report were romanized according to the Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic with the pronunciation of the main additional characters as: č = ch, š = sh, ž = zh, y = hard i, j = y, ë = yo, u = oo - i. e. Dmitrij Čeredničenko = Dmitriy Cherednichenko.
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