People, who live at an altitude of 3000m in Hushe valley, northern Pakistan, pictured on Friday, 13 May 2005. Women work the fields and 95 per cent of men work as porters or cooks during the tourist trekking summer. Every year mountaineers flock to the valley to follow the famous routes, penetrating the world's so-called 'third pole', bordering India. Military skirmishes along this border have resulted in the closure of the route to Ladakh over the Siachen glacier.  EPA/OLIVIER MATTHY...
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