We can only wait for someone, at least to move the bike from that position, where we cannot leave it, in the meanwhile we try to think about how to solve the problem: finding a van and transport the bike to Almaty (200 km) seems to be the best thing.
Two days before, Sambor gave me the number of Marat, a friend who lives in Almaty and organize bike trips, but our phones are not working where we are, so, when we will have moved the bike, we will have to walk to find a spot where there is signal and call him, or walk to the main road, 10 kms out, and stop vans, hoping they will be ok with coming to pick up the bike and bring us to Almaty.

"Mine is working!", Sabrina says

I dial the number of Marat, it rings:

"hello?"
"hello Marat, I'm Cristiano, a friend of Sambor, we met last year in Bishkek"
"hello, tell me?"
"I am in Charyn Canyon and I have a problem with my bike"
"what problem? which kind of bike?"
"I broke the clutch lever, it's a Dominator"
"ok, my group will be there this evening, there will also be a mechanic, we will bring levers"
"But...I mean...I understood you correctly? Are you coming HERE tonight? If I could find a van that brings me and the bike to Almaty you think I should come there?"
"I think it's better for you to wait where you are, if it's too hot go down in the canyon to seek shade, see you later"

I told Sabrina how the conversation went and she almost did not believe me.

It's Asia: nothing is easy but everything is possible, like Sambor likes to say.

Shortly after the first human beings arrived: they were an english guy with his bike and two swiss in a jeep; with their help we managed to push the bike out of the slope, and then they descended into the canyon to visit it, after giving us some more water. The english jumped on their jeep and leaved his bike out there with us (yes, I thinked about dismantling his lever while he was down and go, but I did not).







We began a long day of waiting, during which we thinked and thinked-back to our plans for the next few days, because our program was pretty tight and we were already losing time