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Rock Climbers Abducted | Over the Edge with Climber and Author Greg Child | 5

Against The Odds

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Climbing in the Valleys of Kirgestan

There was criticism in the that the group was naive to go off climbing in that part of the world at the time. The criticism consisted that there were bulletins from the state department outlining some strife going on in remote parts of kirgestan, or speckestan to jekestan. There's validity to criticism about this sort of stuff. But at the same time, you can say that the world was a much more innocent place before nine 11. We were all a lot more trusting of the world in general. Don't forget that the valleys that we're talking about in kirgesta hadn't had any experience of an insurgent army crossing over the mountain range and flooding

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