Photographs fron the 1977 British Speleological Expedition to the Zagros Mts, Iran. - Back to index - foward to next image
...more typical of the run into base camp. This track would have tested a landrover - many of the bends had to be negotiated by turning the bus around where we could turn around - then reversing to the problem bend so we could build the track up and back into the hairpin and pull out fowards. Twentyfive mile took us about seven hours the first time... and was the eventual death of our poor old bus.