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This is the only way to reach sakhi mohammed's home. there is no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life is like here — literally lived on the edge. even for the littlest, with little cover from this biting cold. a home made of mud with the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold. - my kids recently got sick. some of my animals died. till now, i haven't heard people died in salang. even five—year—old jamshad helps keep them alive. they survive with a traditional stove and twigs. and under this red and gold

Even for the littlest, with little cover from this biting cold. a home made of mud with the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold. - my kids recently got sick. some of my animals died. till now, i haven't heard people died in salang. even five—year—old jamshad helps keep them alive. he tells me how they have to carry water from the river, how his hands and feet burn in the cold, how he freezes in the wind and storms. they survive with a traditional stove and twigs. and under this red and gold blanket, charcoal burners. you can taste the fumes in this room.

Are in need of humanitarian assistance, including clean water and sanitation. and yet the taliban is refusing to lift the ban on female aid workers. that ban was confirmed in a statement to the bbc today. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland... ..of aching beauty, but brutal. we're travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world's second highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel. a place of legend. it's an engineering wonder, but a death trap, especially in winter, in ava...

Is like here, literally living on the edge. even for the littlest, little cover from this biting cold. a home made of mud, but the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold, my kids recently got sick, some of my animals died. until now, i haven't heard of people dying in salang. even this five—year—old helps keep him alive. he tells me how he has to carry water from the river, freezing he tells me how he has to carry waterfrom the river, freezing in the storms. they survive with a traditional stove and twigs. and under this red and golden blanket,

It's so cold, but he said it'll get colder still. we've been outjust for minutes, and my eyebrows are frozen and my face feels like it's going to fall off. snow in afghanistan's mountains replenishes ground water imagine if you live day in, day out in conditions like this. in addition to the afghan people who have died, about 70,000 livestock have also perished, according to the state ministry for disaster management. this man lives near the region's salang tunnel. i have heard people died of cold. my kids recently got sick. some of my animals died. until now, i haven't heard people died in sa...