Herds will be kept off that pasture so the grasses can be harvested, dried, and used by the Wakhi people for animal fodder in the winter months. Her hair was dyed purple. She wore spandex.

However, for several days, he camped alone with a group of Wakhi shepherds and tried to communicate. “We would point at things and I would say the English word and he would say the Wakhi word ...

For generations, Pakistan's Wakhi people have herded each summer in Pamir, a high-altitude grassland that is vital to raising the livestock upon which they depend. The difficult trek there along ...