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History:

Adventure tourism in the Hindu Kush range of mountains had started more than a century ago when Robertson and John Bidulph visited Chitral in 1870s, leading to the pact of friendship in 1885 between the state of Chitral and British India…then the ties strengthened …and in 1892 with the exploration expedition of Cockeril to Saraghrar peaks in the Roshgol valley of the high Hindukush and then to Terichmir the same summer…with a glimpse of Istor-o-nal unexpectedly to his great amazement… This expedition report opened Chitral and Hindu Kush as a great destination for adventure tourism …followed by the reports about the Kalash community attractions .. .. the travel reports into Hindu Kush mountains spilled into Europe from England and then led to the American Expedition of 1935, motivating two Norwegian expeditions to Terich Mir - the first in 1950 but the high Hindu Kush section with its confused ridges and valleys continued to baffle Western climbers who sought basic info from Diemberger of Austria for his map based knowledge. The exploration expeditions continued by many climbing clubs from Europe but exchange of info was poor.. the Norwegian report on Terich Mir expedition 1950.and the Italian report on the conquest of Saraghrar in 1959 remained limited in their attraction due to language problems but many stories of expeditions in the Hindu Kush were published in HIGH ASIA [ Journal] in English, played greater role to promote adventure tourism in this region.. There were great adventure activities in the 1960s and 1970s in this section of Hindu Kush but it declined with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in early 80s