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Having delivered a lunch of rice and lamb meat, Rahimullah, 27, scales the sheer rock face back to the stone cabin where he will clean up the pots and pans from the meal before returning to continue mining on mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007.
October 24, 2007- Khenj, Afghanistan

Having delivered a lunch of rice and lamb meat, Rahimullah, 27, scales the sheer rock face back to the stone cabin where he will clean up the pots and pans from the meal before returning to continue mining on mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007.