Paiyike is said to be a transliteration of a Kirgiz phrase, meaning "the highest mountain". The police station is located at ...

The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent after the collapse of the Soviet ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for ...

Police officers from the Paiyike Border Police Station conduct a law enforcement training session, on March 25, 2025. Photo: ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mount Paektu on the side of North Korea has been designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark. UNESCO's ...

Indus sees steepest 5-year drop, Mekong & Salween lose over 50% snow. ICIMOD urges urgent basin-level action, adaptive ...

On April 15, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could reshape the U.S. mining sector. The order launches a federal investigation into the country’s heavy reliance on foreign ...

Umeda Kurbonbekova, a mountain guide from Tajikistan and a travel agency owner, and Azamat Mamataaly-Uulu, a mountain guide and photographer from Kyrgyzstan, talked about the slow recovery of the ...

The Reserve includes extensive riparian tugay ecosystems, the sandy Kashka-Kum desert, the Buritau peak, as well as the Hodja-Kaziyon mountains ... nature reserve since 1938, the highest nature ...

The intensity of luminescence increased with Cr content in the samples. The highest intensity was observed in bright red ruby. Located high in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, the Snezhnoe deposit ...