Their land consists of two long, glacier-carved valleys, called pamirs, stashed deep within the great mountains of Central Asia. Much of it is above 14,000 feet. The wind is furious; crops are ...

Still another branch route took a more southerly pass through the Pamirs, and went on to Bactria leading to routes through Afghanistan and on to northwestern India. Of the northern routes that ...

But our decision to travel there rewarded us with experiences of kindness and generosity, especially in the Pamirs, a region that left a lasting impression on us. Our travels here were the ...

Another region of the country that should be unaffected is the mountainous Pamirs region of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, which is provided with electricity by local hydroelectric ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

In 1963, Pakistan ceded the Shaksgam valley to China when it signed a border agreement with Beijing to settle their border ...

If you consider the eastern Point of Nuptse a separate peak, it was a first ascent. In the Pamirs/Tien Shan, Babanov speed ...

An accomplished climber, he has scaled 23,406-foot (7,134-meter) Lenin Peak in the Pamirs on the Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan border. He drank his share of vodka and smoked but kept a blistering pace on ...

In his journal notes, he gave a detailed description about the local custom and culture in Pamirs, Kashi, Shache and Hotan. On the Silk Road, many passes, castles, grotto caves, tombs, posthouses ...

From the earliest conflicts on the steppe frontier in the 1830s to the annexation of the Pamirs in the early 1900s, he gives a detailed account of the logistics and operational history of Russian wars ...

I’ve also been lucky enough to spend months at a time cycling or trekking in remote mountain environments, like the Pamirs in Tajikistan and the Karakorum in northern Pakistan. I’ve been ...