Traveller’s Pass, near Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan. I love the sea (I was a Marine Biologist originally) but for photography nothing beats the mountains. #photography #kyrgyzstan #aerial #adventure

Travel fact: Kyrgyzstan is 93% Mountains and has an average height of 2750m above sea level. Mostly formed by the Tian Shan or “Celestial Mountains” range, but also including the Pamir Mountain range too. There are three peaks over 7000m - Pobeda Peak being the tallest at 7439m, Lenin Peak at 7134m and Khan Tengri at 7010m. #travelstr #photography #overlanding #mountains #livefree

We think we drive a big truck. Mother Nature thinks otherwise. See if you can spot us in each frame. 📍Kyrgyzstan #overlandlife #expeditiontruck #aerial #photography

In America they call a small section of hills with colours like these “Artist’s Palette” (it’s in Death Valley.) Here in Kyrgyzstan a massive mountain range of rainbow coloured mountains is just… some more rainbow coloured mountains! #overlanding #photography #borderlessliving #adventurelife

GM Nostr 🌅 Here’s a little bit more about Otis, our overlanding adventure dog. Born October 2019, he’s a 5yr old pure breed Hungarian Vizsla. He shows all the typical vizsla traits - he’s made of Velcro, he has mad zoomies, he’s loving in the extreme and he adores the great outdoors with space to run and roam, new smells to experience and new dogs to meet. He’s in his 25th country visited and contrary to popular belief, border crossings with an animal are actually quite easy as long as you’re prepared. He has an EU pet passport and we keep him up to date with vaccines and he has a rabies titre test. And really that’s all the ones that bother to look are interested about. #photography #overlanding #adventure #dog

GN Nostr 🌌 Milky Way over Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan. #photography #overlanding

Argh! Well, we’ve been out of the UK for nearly 1.5years so it’s probably about time they decided we were over the “two months outside your home country.” Solution? Go to the Global Roam package at £380/month 😱 Donations welcome if you want us to be able to keep bringing you the postcards from our travels and showing you places you didn’t know exist! #remotecommunication #overland #travelchallenges

Last light on Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan. Tomorrow night, all being well, I’ll be taking a sleeping bag and bivvi and getting myself a little closer and in to some better picture taking spots before a night out under the stars somewhere around 4200m. #photography #overlandexploration #mountainlover

Today had quite a lot going for it. We left the Tulpar Lake region and retraced our steps down the track to Sary Mogul. Then we drove 14km along the road before turning on to the track that leads to Lenin Peak base camp - where we’d hiked to yesterday. If we thought the Tulpar Lake track was pretty, the Lenin Peak track was off the charts. And now we’re parked above a glacial river, looking at Lenin Peak and the sun has just set turning the rainbow coloured mountains all sorts of shades of pinks and purples. This is what overlanding gives you - freedom, mobility, borderless living and the chance to put your house in the most beautiful places in the world. #photography #overlandfamily #kyrgyzstan #borderlessliving

This morning at Tulpar Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Not long before we went out for a hike to Lenin Peak base camp and got caught in a mixed hail/snow storm 🙌 All four seasons in a day. #photography #overlandfamily #livefree #borderlessliving

We’re on our way to start the Pamir Highway, but with the Ak-Baital pass at 4655m to go over, altitude acclimation from this direction is particularly important. So we’ve wound our way to Tulpar Kul, or Tulpar Lakes. At the foot of Mt Lenin (7134m tall and one of the tallest mountains in the former Soviet Union) they are a series of high altitude lakes around 3500m up that make a great space to let the body prepare for the thinner air. We’ll spend two nights here and then head up the Lenin Peak track to get a bit higher still, and then we’ll head for the Tajikistan Border and that 4655m crossing. Expect more pictures from these lakes if the weather clears, because they are spectacular. 📍Kyrgyzstan #livefree #overlandfamily #photography

Ever wondered what 33 parrots lying down would look like? According to Kyrgyzstan it’s this… 33 Parrots Pass on the route up to Son Kul lake at 3060m above sea level. Those switchbacks, some of which are quite tight in a 9.5m long truck, take you up almost 600m of elevation gain before spitting you out on an alpine plateau with Kyrgyzstan’s second largest lake in the middle of it. #overlandlife #borderlessliving