‘Roof of the World’ is the Persian expression for the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, which are among the highest in the world. On the high plateau of the Eastern Pamirs, where the average elevation is ...

Known as Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, the medieval centres were discovered in the Pamir mountains of eastern Uzbekistan. The ...

Iskanderkul Lake, Fann mountains, Tajikistan Timelapse of ice crystals melting on a glacier lake in the Pamir mountains Due to low temperartures above 4500m the glacier lake is covered with is which ...

Pamir mountains, Alay valley. The Trekking Kyrgyzstan’s Alay Mountains tour is for the intrepid mountaineers who wants to see a part of the world rarely visited by tourists The Trekking ...

Some 17,000 people are working on the site which lies west of the capital Dushanbe, in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains. The site is already partially functioning but it is not known when ...

Airkir Duliki, China's first ethnic Tajik train conductor, was born and raised amidst the snow-capped mountains and grasslands in a village of Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County on the Pamir Plateau.

As a rugged branch of the fabled Silk Road, the Wakhan Valley in the Pamir Mountains has long existed at the intersection of routes that once served nomads, peddlers and pilgrims. This slice of ...

Due to their governance, the Mongols reached Beijing, moving toward the Pamir Mountains before arriving in Central Asia. These significant cultural interactions between different peoples led to the ...

or De Wakhan Dehleez in Pashto – in the Pamir Mountains. Geographically this thin slice of land in the Badakhshan province (Afghanistan) is about 350 km long and 16 to 64 km wide. Wakhan or ...