"I had dreamed of seeing the Wakhan Corridor ever since I was a little kid, growing up in Hunza valley, in northern Pakistan," writes Gohar Abbas, a journalist based in Islamabad. "My father and grandfather would tell me: 'it is where we come from,' and my imagination would fly to the narrow valley jutting out of Afghanistan’s northeastern edge." Here is his story of he he finally made it to one of the most remote places on the planet, and what he found there.