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Bulunkul Lake, Afghanistan, 1932

"As in ages past, camels still provide dependable transportation for inner Asia: skirting the waters of Bulunkul Lake. To carry ... supplies and equipment required a large number of pack animals. Camels, yaks, and ponies were used. Generally speaking, the first named, although not so fast as the ponies, proved the best carriers for fragile objects."

—From "First Over the Roof of the World by Motor," March 1932, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams