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are going. to feed. on a frozen road traveling through the high plateaus of kyrgyzstan a small truck is on the move. in these extreme conditions the truck is beginning a long journey to deliver mandarin oranges to remote villages. the fruit is highly prized as a symbol of good fortune in neighboring tajikistan. but
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to get to the villages the drivers must risk their lives on dangerous roads. located in the heart of central asia. is kurdistan second largest city. after nightfall to drivers stock up on supplies. they bought expensive chinese mandarins from a local trader and hope to sell them for a small profit in neighboring town. the truck is loaded with cases full of the fruit. of. the drivers wrap the mandarins in a blanket to protect them from the cold. they chop off their load with a few sheets of plywood to. the loading completed they head off into the night.
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so it was really you should you sure are you sure. it is the driver and mechanic who won the senior of the two companies. they pray for a safe journey ahead but those nice albert shake up. we shared rather than that of us their leisure. was brought in book of low blood. pressure and that the. outside it's minus twenty degrees and not much warmer inside whether he cheats not working. now when there are the months and also my fault ted and. our difficulties are not that young mother cause i know when they're not far off. part of nine build up gone up. for.
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a daybreak uncool one arrived in a small town. oh you got it they're good good good to have all. of. their. hand off the cuff oh i thought of all the. things. back on the road again the weather takes a turn for the worse. icy conditions have stopped the heavy of vehicles in that truck. pulled last sunday was.
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like all. hell am. i know. how this minute i'll talk to. tom and all. in a blizzard at three thousand six hundred meters vehicles with lighter load stand a better chance. to. hold profile up. at minus thirty
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degrees the road is an ice rink the truckers most code as best they can. history and. the. sure they can make or don't. know exactly. what happened. in his little truck takes a chance and manages to push through. further
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on they stopped to help a driver whose vehicle has broken down you'll. see. just one of them in charge. of a hoover one program for a group of. kids going to look at that the. world isn't just. isn't there those are because of. what was a color of color that gives example that i could get today but. the indestructible soviet four wheel drive saves the day. the temperature drops still further at night and their guest is worried. that. in john the apostle the. boss of. this thing they're going
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to put up a lot of. this is. what's up though. that because marco didn't have to put in a plug this guitar that could profit so much as the skin to skin a month long it's got a lot. of breakdown in these conditions could mean death. without heating the interior windscreen is soon covered with ice and do show combat see the road which is edged by a precipice. the temperature is now minus thirty seven degrees. c. . desperate measures are called for and an old blowtorch serves as a de icing device on almost.
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fifty. one of those what are your. off. the. fire against ice. within a few kilometers the ice is back. freezing and tired the three finally seek shelter. somewhere. that they're. going to cook but. there's a period one not on to do that. at
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a loss do show has little choice but to move all. her ear. skirt. the abyss and with the frequent use of the blowtorch the men finally reach an isolated farmhouse. the wellcome is glacial. inside it's
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about ten degrees. next morning cohen makes do with a little cold water. runs the blowtorch over the truck's frigid underbelly. but the engine is too cold to stocked. up on. the. thing with all.
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the radiation needs refilling. the water was removed the night before to stop it from freezing. through the will of those. hollister's or those of those missionaries she must go. to. pitch get the. other her. the old truck rattles off towards the kizil octopi. cheat four thousand two hundred eighty feet.
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of john told mark all the possible tornado did this but the older kids. in the ravine below lie the remains of a truck that attempted the same crossing. one and two shot into the wind swept me a mountain. all a. lot. of good if that. would. fix up with. us
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a little the. big fellow said the first thing. you think. you. just joke joke joke. joke joke. but then. you. try just. like the mother heads. i just tried to dinner. because if i could be as does good child why didn't i just go the first market oh well there was a. at this altitude with limited
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oxygen the motor can't function but the men are pretty head on both of them began to go bust no communicate with. him just a good bit of as not j.c.s. and slower discrete. the show isn't correct russia. listen i just. choose close to. the school. after me. and i.
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shouldn't. be. the carburetor is changed the tactic worked. that. was. that. the door is stuck. the men don't want to risk stalling so cool one continued on foot.
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with. the. existing. joining going to. do them. all the. way well there must. now ok. after an hour they've reached their objective the kizil are to pass one of only two crossing points between kyrgyzstan and tragic histone. most drivers would avoid risking this passage. to standardise as i hear you've got. a mother who took care of us there will. be strong enough but there are no tough. love because i can't walk left
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alone. a lot i mostly saw clock. it's minus thirty degrees and the customs officers are too cold to leave their offices. and finally make it to chug the stuff. at this point their lives are at the mercy of the trucks old breaks. or missed on the. watch metropolis. boarding was up just to go the. voyage we're through simplistic here i was on the plane that's just on the road to another woman polar warming. fish being.
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in the. last one. after two days cohen. finally make it to the desert that leads to monaco the city. in tajikistan lenin still holds a place of honor earnings in this former soviet republic average less than seventy five u.s. dollars a month. from
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. home. and i would love the. old series did you. enjoy the hell out of all the fun you know fun but enough to shift sure. as i go and i. did that in africa i did get this. traditionally come a cinco gets done is a family affair. each member has a part to play cohen's mother will sell the mandarins.
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package zero dollars apiece. might i am confident that we're going to stop the. construction materials are too expensive so traders set up shop in contains. the mandarins have finally made it but with meager earnings people are in no rush to buy. it shuffle off the bottom. can do their own. land are nohow. just feel good and the time that i was shouted. off our home our entire. consulate. in. twenty five years or to this remember got a book committed over the natural of his mom like you can download
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a substitute. to the fifty fifty people. care you're a kid. i would i be it will be thinking in. ticket fifty feet. off the floor. to. find out. this is. in our coverage an admission. system. from i don't know but i think. one kilo of man during the speech will adorn this traditional touchup feast the celebration of a birth. families and in-laws will dip into their savings for
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these enormous feasts. the fact. of the not. day one of the bishop give it a day off from a game some are not being deployed to others are cut or some hurt are number. ten right now. you know about how they're going. to get it catered to was a movie called. next comes the moment the children have all been waiting for the blessing with sweets to bring prosperity for the baby and her parents.
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are. just not that far from we're almost no more on the dollar oh. finally it's time for the mandarin which are meant to bring the child a happy life. after the meal as an offering family and friends share the food. but. does not love those. who love the book and the love of it with a soft blue show. you will never hear. but . after a long journey one feast with his family.
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he and do show risked their lives to transport mandarins for festivities like be. a little warm with a few simple pleasures will give cohen strength for his next journey. apart from.
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