A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush ...

A family flees across the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on their way to become refugees in Pakistan (1988) Two young Afghan fighters share a joke during a lull in fighting in fierce ...

There are no paved roads linking the craggy, mineral-rich mountains of northeast Afghanistan’s Konar and Nurestan provinces to the outside world, while abundant and more accessible reserves are ...

Nangalem, Afghanistan, Oct. 7, 2004: An Afghan elder walks down an unpaved and rocky mountain road.

Having opened a clinic in a remote mountain village of Afghanistan as a physician, Nakamura experienced the historic drought of 2000, and that became the cue for him to start digging wells.