To get there we had driven down from Barnaul, the Russian Altai’s only major airport, to Karakol, and had traversed 300 miles of glacier-topped mountains, glistening streams and pine-covered valleys.

Journey through the Altai Mountains, a remote wilderness deep in Siberia. This footage captures towering snow-covered peaks, ...

TOMSK, August 14 /TASS/. Rescuers have left for the Aktu gorge in the Altai mountains where four mountain climbers are believed to have frozen to death, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies ...

In a remote cave nestled in the Altai Mountains of southern Russia, scientists are uncovering the secrets of ancient human life. Here in this cave, ancient peoples like the Neanderthals found shelter ...

2001: Joint UNESCO/UNDP mission; 2007, 2012: Joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions 2012 Report on the Joint WHC/IUCN Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Golden Mountains of ...

Russians living in Siberia's Altai Mountains make a living by cutting the antlers off Maral deers. The dried antlers are sold for more than $300 per kilogram to China and South Korea, where people ...

Dr. Taylor Hermes of the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has received grants from the National Geographic Society and the Wenner-Gren ...

The fourth this year Russian cargo spacecraft Progress was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 24 BARNAUL, August 29 (Itar-Tass) — The weather conditions have been complicating the search ...

The Siberian Altai range offers views like this — wild, layered, and vast. These mountains are shared by Russia, Kazakhstan, ...

In Russia's remote Altai region, people are heading to the mountains in thick snow to gather riches that literally grow on trees: pine nuts. Russia is the world's largest supplier of pine nuts. For ...