And through his work in Afghanistan he’s seen landscapes that spark his desire to explore terrain that’s entirely new — yet hit close to home. “When I was a Boy Scout leader we spent a lot of time in ...

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Panjshir looked promising on the map - that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. ''It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

in which the military has sent civilian social scientists to battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, has noble aims but misses its targets badly. "The Human Terrain System sought to bring a degree ...

One obstacle to extracting Afghanistan’s minerals is its terrain, considered the eighth most mountainous in the world. But security has been a much bigger impediment. Amid the political ...