Summary
IN ORDER to reach the headquarters of the Afghan charity Turquoise Mountain you must head not for Kabul, but for Crieff. For it is here, up a long, twisting drive past a field of Highland cows in the depths of Perthshire , in the chaotic study of a Scottish baronial house, that the nerve centre for an organisation that employs 350 people dedicated to restoring the ancient capital of Afghanistan is based.
This is the family home of Rory Stewart - former Blackwatch soldier and old Etonian made an OBE, onetime deputy governor of Maysan in southern Iraq, but perhaps best known as the man who walked across war-torn Afghanistan in 2002 with only a dog for company, an experience he documented in his award winning book The Places in Between.See the full content of this document
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Walking Tall
This week Stewart, incredibly accomplished for a man of just 35 years, announced that he has set himself a new challenge: a walk across Britain. He will retain his position as head of Turquoise Mountain, but after two and a half years in Kabul he is returning home to Scotland - for the next few months at least - while a new managing director takes over the day-to-day running ...
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