China

BEIJING
— Forbidden City, Great Wall, etc. in 1981

XINGJIANG AUTONOMOUS REGION
— Urumchi, capital city: Uighur minority group, hospital, bazaars Taklamakan Desert
— Kashgar, oasis city on Silk Road, markets, carpet factory, street medicine, Sunday Bazaar
— Kirghiz mountain people, living in Sarikol Valley in the shadow of Mt. Muztagata near borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia, hay harvesting, yurts, playing buz kashi (rugby on horseback)
— Telemark ski descent from top of 25,000-foot Mt. Muztagata in Pamir mountains
— Sand dune skiing on l,000-foot dunes in Chinese Pamirs

GUANXI PROVINCE
— Guilin, one of China’s most popular tourist destinations; limestone spires; caving in the subteranean world of karst formations

YUANNAN PROVINCE
— Cities of Kunming and Dali

SICHUAN PROVINCE
— Chengdu, Muli: sacred Buddhist peaks, Tibetan monastery, pilgrims;
Wolong Panda Preserve: A week spent with a Canadian biologist researching pandas in the wild for World Wildlife Fund.

HUBEI AND HUNAN PROVINCES
— Yangtze River, Three Gorges Dam (story package): 5-day cruise trip from Wushan to Chongqing, past site of Three Gorges Dam at Sandouping; hiking in and exploring the inner gorges, visiting villages that will be drowned by the dam. This story won a silver award for photojournalism in the Canadian National Magazine Awards.

HONG KONG
— City scenes
— 1993 International Dragon Boat Races