1981 Expedition

In the summer of 1981 Harry Rutstein picked up the trail of Marco Polo in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains of Pakistan and went over the roof the world to the border of China. This was an eight man film expedition producing a motion picture that depicted the people of Northen Pakistan and the mountains in which they lived. It is a comparison of thirteenth century Asia as described by Marco Polo to what one finds today in these isolated lands on the "roof of the world". The expedition traveled 300 miles from the Afghan to Chinese border by jeep, horse, and even on inflated goat-skin raft to record how much changed and how much remained the same during these past 700 years.