Khorog, capital of Tajikistan's remote region of GBAO (Credit ... Pamiris live in areas throughout the Pamir Mountains. For most of their history, the events of the outside world had no effect on the ...

The Pamir Mountains tend to be cold and arid most of the year, but the winter is particularly harsh. Icy cold temperatures between November and March would make a visit particularly challenging.

At first glance, it doesn’t look like much, just a rectangular meadow in the Pamir foothills of central Tajikistan.But there was a time when this ground reverberated with the thunder of hooves.

Researchers ventured into the “challenging-to-access Pamir Mountains” of Tajikistan in 2023 to survey wildlife, according to a study published July 12 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

V oices from the Roof of the World , the award-winning documentary series, has begun production of its fourth season. The ...

Mountain home. GBAO is also bordered by China and Kyrgyzstan, and is not far from Pakistan. Although the province covers almost half the territory of Tajikistan, its population of around 250,000 ...

Much is at stake in the Pamir Mountains, and GBAO has been a geopolitical treasure tethered to exterior interests ever since the British and Russian empires drew swords on the roof of the world in ...

The temperature is rising faster in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains (elevation 25,095 feet) than the global average. These are the stories of the people living through our coming climate crisis, today.

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan discuss co-op in geology in Pamir mountains. Tajikistan Materials 6 March 2025 13:34 (UTC +04:00) Photo: ... DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, March 6.

Although officially part of Tajikistan, after 1993, Gorno-Badakhshan, ... My friend and I had been planning to visit the Pamir mountains as part of our travels in Central Asia.