Read why the Pamir Mountains are called the Roof of the World or Bam-i-Duniya, and learn about their location, highest peaks, ...

The Pamir Highway across Tajikistan offers unparalleled adventure, treachery and memories. Our own Autumn Phillips braved the coldest, most dangerous road trip in the world.

Scientists have retrieved ancient ice cores from Tajikistan's Pamir mountains, potentially holding climate records up to ...

Ice cores are a vertical column of ice extracted from glaciers and ice-sheets; they hold records of what the planet was like hundreds of thousands of years ago New Delhi: Tajikistan became the first ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core ...

KHOROG, TAJIKISTAN - Media OutReach Newswire - 28 October 2025 - Wildberries, a leading digital platform Eurasia, has opened its highest-altitude pickup point for online orders placed on its ...

A giant chunk has broken away from a large glacier in Tajikistan, triggering warnings from scientists to mountain villages in ...

Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, maps — and when the twain meet: What is the core of ...

After eight months, Javier Carrasco and his partner have covered 12,000km across Europe, China, and Central Asia. They have ...

A 26 year old has pedalled from Cheshire to Nepal, covering roughly 120km daily and camping along the way, with the aim of ...

And then we’re off, as he brings us on an earth-shuddering, white-knuckle ride, zigzagging our way around boulders, through rivers and nosing our way into, across and out of enormous, lake-like ...