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Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot before basking in the "freedom" of gliding back down.

But the return of the puritanical Taliban to power in Afghanistan put an end to their ... a reason for me to survive," Khanzai told AFP from France, where he has lived for the last two years.

In Afghanistan they faced death threats simply ... who like Khanzai lives in Annecy at the foot of the Savoyard Alps in southeastern France, now speaks French. She is studying graphic design ...