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| Name | Alexander the Great crosses the Hindu Kush (Historian Michael Wood) |
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| Video Discription | Michael Wood follows the footsteps of Alexander the great and makes his way through war-torn Afghanistan on a dramatic march with pack horses over the Hindu Kush Mountains. "Nothing put him off," said Arrian. "Starvation, the freezing cold, nothing -- he just kept coming on and on. And in the end his enemies were struck with fear and amazement." (In the Spring of 329 BC, Alexander crossed the Hindu Kush from Gandara to Bactria in order to pursue the Persian leader Bessus.) At Kabul, Michael finds himself in the middle of a siege of the city by the fundamentalist Taliban. Hiring horses for the camera equipment and armed guards to ward off ambushes, he sets off to follow Alexander's trail, 20,000ft up in the Hindu Kush Mountains, to make it through the Khawak Pass and Central Asia. Alexander's intelligence would have informed him that supplying his army was out of the question on those routes. That left him one obvious alternative -- the Khawak Pass. This is the eastern route rising up on a gentle gradient. It was used by Tamerlane, Genghis Khan and other invaders of India. This was the route we decided to take...We pushed on up the long slope, as the wind started to course down between the hills. Sixteen kilometres up from Ao Khawak, at a little under 4000 metres, we reached the summit. In thin air and a chill wind, we were surrounded by snow streaked peaks with creamy white clouds coming over the tops. The last few metres drew us on to see the view the Greeks had seen all those years before. Again, there was that eerie feeling of standing on the very spot where Alexander had stood. He knew at that moment he had got through, that his gamble had paid off. The Pass had been undefended. Below us, the road snaked down, still sunlit towards northern Afghanistan and the Oxus, beyond which lay the great plains of central Asia. "Nothing put him off," said Arrian. "Starvation, the freezing cold, nothing -- he just kept coming on and on. And in the end his enemies were struck with fear and amazement." Standing shivering on the top of the Khawak Pass, it was easy for us to see why. Once again Alexander had shown that left any chance he would take it. - Michael Wood https://www.salon.com/1998/01/08/pass_5/ Alexander, setting out from Persepolis some time in 330, resumed the pursuit of Darius, whose murdered body he found near Shahrud. Then, after a delay in the region of the Caspian, he turned south into Seistan and, according to Arrian,5 marched in deep snow through the land of the Arachotai. This brings us fairly to the Hindu Kush. Arrian says nothing of winter quarters (although he gives the season); but we learn from him that Alexander stopped long enough at the foot of the Hindu Kush to found a city. Strabo says6 that Alexander passed through the land of the Paropamisadae after the setting of the Pleiades, established winter quarters below the Hindu Kush, where he built a city, and thence crossed the range into Bactria in fifteen days. We learn from Arrian7 that Alexander crossed before the snow was yet out of the passes. Alejandro Magno The Hindu Kush crossed, Alexander went to Bactra, crossed the Oxus in pursuit of Bessus |
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