In the vast expanse of China's western region lies Xinjiang, the nations largest, and most untamed province. This remote and rugged province has long been a crossroads of cultures, a melting pot where East meets West along the ancient Silk Roads, blended together by perhaps the most dangerous deserts and mountains known on Earth. Embarking on a journey  through Xinjiang those many centuries ago is to embark on a game of life verses death.

Here lies the Taklamakan, the second largest sand desert in the world, some of the tallest and rugged mountains in the Pamirs, the world's tallest natural arch, countless Silk Road ruins, and time-tested bazaars. At this crossroads lives numerous peoples of various ethnicities, whether Uyghurs, Hans, Kirghiz, Kazakhs or Mongols (to name a few), each playing a part in Xinjiang's cultural landscape. Enbark on a journey to this wild west frontier...