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.

Hundreds of trekkers, villagers and support staff have safely reached the Tibetan town of Qudang, according to Chinese state ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the Altai Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan, I’m standing on the northern rim of the 15km-wide Chasha crater.

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