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To avoid conflict and visa restrictions he took a short flight from Armenia to Kazakhstan where he continued to climb the Pamir mountain ranges to China, not only overcoming the challenges of altitude but suspicious local police as he crossed the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts.

China's nuclear weapon tests usually take place domestically and it previously test-fired ICBMs west into the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region.

As you know, this is the dangerous leg of the journey that went through the Taklamakan Desert.

We slunk toward the Taklamakan Desert with halfhearted steps.

The Taklamakan Desert was a vast floor of threshing dust.