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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) rappels down dangerous loose, crumbling rock in slot canyons below Shipton's Arch in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert.
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  • Sam Lightner (MR) rappels off Shipton's Arch, above arid slot canyons in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Taklimakan Desert.
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  • Sam Lightner (MR) climbs huge dangerous crumbling conglomerate rock on huge Shipton's Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar & the Taklimakan Desert. Nancy Feagin belays.
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  • While Mark Newcomb (MR) waits above, Sam Lightner rappels off huge Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert. (The figures are almost too small too see.)
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  • Sam Lightner (MR) rappels on huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert.
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  • A tiny climber stands atop massive Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert.
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  • While Mark Newcomb (MR) waits above, Sam Lightner rappels off huge Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert. (The figures are almost too small too see.)
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Climbers (MR) look up at huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar.
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang.  Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) in slot canyons below Shipton's Arch in arid Kara Tagh Mts near Taklimakan Desert.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb ascends treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.  Later the team crossed the range, descending into the dangerous and previously unknown slot canyon behind him.
    CX 3162.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon behind  him.
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  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a desert wash looking for a route to Shipton’s Arch (upper left) in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition climbed it from the other side, then crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyonthat emerges on the far right of this frame.
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  • A mountaineer rappels below Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges, which is well hidden in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a treacherous slot canyon carved through conglomerate rock below  Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges is well hidden in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • A mountaineer stands below Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges, in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
    CX 3171.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon behind him.
    CX 3139.jpg
  • A Uygar villager from Mingyol steers a burro cart carrying his wife and him to a market town below the arid Kara Tagh Mountains on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert near Kashgar (Kashi) in Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) descends a slot canyon below huge Shipton's Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near the Taklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang province.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb (MR) navigates treacherous slot canyons below Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains of Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb rappels below massive Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • A mountaineer stands atop Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineers stand atop Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineers explore an approach to Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineers stand below huge Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Gordon Wiltsie (MR) near huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains, near Kashgar.
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  • A mountaineer rappels below Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Sam Lightner(MR) rappels on huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.
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  • Sam Lightner (tiny) scrambles below huge Shipton's Arch  in the Kara Tagh Mountains near  Kashgar & the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang, China.
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang Province.  Tiny climbers (MR) stand atop huge Shipton's Arch in Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar & Taklimakan Desert.
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  • A mountaineer emerges from slot canyons after the first-ever crossing of the Tushag Tash Mountains, via Shipton's Arch.
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  • Mark Newcomb  descends a scary slot canyon below Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains of Xinjiang, China.
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  • Uygur women bake flatbread in a tandoor oven in Mingyol village in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar (Kashi), a city on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang Province.  Sam Lightner (MR) below huge Shipton's Arch in Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar & Taklimakan Desert.
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  • A Uygar villager carries firewood to market on a horse cart.  Behind him is the arid Kara Tagh range (Black Mountains) on the edge of the Taklaimakan Desert.
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