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It is a fact that if you stare at a map long and hard enough you will coax new routes to appear. Some years ago we conjured up a high road in the mountains northwest of the Himalayas - the Pamir Highway. At that time, the country, Tajikistan, was inconveniently engaging in a nasty civil war. Not that this a great improvement for us from the previous state of affairs, namely its being a Soviet Republic and therefore out of bounds to pretty well anyone