The Other Face of the Mountain: Afghanistan’s ‘Ski Challenge’ · Global Voices
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https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9-800x450.jpg Afghanistan’s jagged, sky-scraping mountain ranges have over centuries been its best defence against foreign invasions, but there are other ways they can be put to use for the country.
Since 2011, the annual Afghan Ski Challenge has run from February through March in the Koh-i-Baba mountains, not far from where the Taliban infamously bombed giant Buddha rock carvings in the country’s central Bamyan province.