TOM ROSPABE. IMAGES OF AKSAI QIN.

IMAGES OF AKSAI QIN ARE VERY HARD TO COME BY, CERTAINLY ANYTHING NOT RELATED TO POLITICS. TOM WAS PART OF THE FIRST EXPEDITION THERE, AND THOUGH FOCUSED ON THE CLIMBING TOOK PERSONAL PHOTOS THAT DOCUMENT THE UNIQUE EVENT.

TOM KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING, A CINEMATOGRAPHER BY TRADE, AND PHOTOGRAPHED THE LOCATIONS AND EXPEDITION IN A WAY RARELY SEEN. THESE PHOTOS SHOW ONE SIDE OF AKSAI QIN, A SIDE THAT CAN BE DAUNTING, UNEARTHLY AND BIZARRE, FAR BEYOND WHAT MOST HIGH ALTITUDE PLACES ARE LIKE. WHERE FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS USUAL PHOTOS ARE ROUGH, AMATEUR AND LURID, TOM’S ARE ATMOSPHERIC, EVOCATIVE AND THOUGHTFUL.

AKSAI QIN IS A REMOTE AND ALIEN FRONTIER ON THE EDGE OF HABITABILITY, WHERE PEOPLE ARE BARELY RELEVANT, ESPECIALLY IN WINTER WHEN THESE IMAGES WERE TAKEN. KEEP IN MIND TEMPERATURES ARE ALL AROUND -25c, MOST OF THESE IMAGES ARE ABOVE 5000m, THE WIND WAS OFTEN SCOURING THE TOPOGRAPHY AND ALL THE RIVERS FROZEN. THIS IS THE STUFF OF TRUE EXPEDITIONS.

OPEN EACH IMAGE IN IT’S OWN TAB AND EXPAND IT FOR THE FULL EFFECT. ALL IMAGES COPYWRITE TO THOMAS ROSPABE

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