John Mock & Kimberley O'Neil

The Source of the Oxus River:
A Journey to the Wakhan Pamir & Across Dilisang Pass to Misgar
(July-August 2004)

Expedition Report

• Politics


• What About Those Warlords


• How Do You Get There?


• Maps: Where's the Dilisang Pass?


• Speak to People in Their Own Language

• Islamabad: From Tourism to Interior Ministries


• Kabul to Faizabad: Meeting General Warduk


• Faizabad to Sarhad-e Broghil: The End of the Road in the Wakhan


• Wakhan: Trekking from Sarhad-e Broghil to Kashch Goz


• Little Pamir: Kashch Goz up the Wakhjir Valley


• The Source of the Oxus River: Is there an Ice-Cave?


• Kamansu: The Way to Dilisang


• Across Dilisang Pass to Misgar


• After You Marco Polo, But After Us …

Download a printer-friendly text-only version of the expedition report (221KB PDF file) or read it on W.L. Gore's Shipton/Tilman Adventure Diaries.

Read our Notes for Travelers and Tour Operators

Maps

• Route Map: Sarhad to Misgar, orientation sketch map (505KB JPG file)
• Dilisang Pass Map, topographical map (1MB JPG file)

Sponsorship

We were awarded the 2004 Shipton-Tilman Grant by W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.; read grant application excerpts.