On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

From landlocked and mountainous Kyrgyzstan to miniscule Andorra, to the Pacific island country of Papua New Guinea, we take a ...

The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?

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 ...

16, 2025. 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 ...

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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 ...

A 23-year-old medical student who was missing in a remote Australian mountain range for two weeks has been located. Hadi Nazari from Melbourne went missing on Dec. 26, 2024, when he separated from ...

But thankfully there’s a train you can catch too. Mountains are high areas, rising more than 600 metres from the surrounding land. And often they’re found in groups called mountain ranges.