By Bruce Pannier The painful losses continue to mount up for the Pamiri people of eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). Ever since May 2022, when the Tajik government crushed ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the ...

The study finds that glacier retreat, shrinking rivers, and rising temperatures are dramatically altering regional hydrology.

ASTANA: Chinese President Xi Jinping met Central Asian leaders at a summit in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Jun 17), his second trip to the region in under a year as Beijing competes with Russia for ...

HIGHER REACHES ANSWERS: In Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, road trip across the roof of the world [January 29, 2019] ...

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.

In 1929, the Soviet Union created the 'Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic' (Tajik SSR) on the Tajikistan side of the Corridor for Pamiris, whom the Soviet orientalists call the 'Mountain Tajiks'.

Tajikistan has placed its bets on Rogun, ... Some 17,000 people are working on the site which lies west of the capital Dushanbe, in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains.

The Earthquake occurred in the Pamir Mountain range of Tajikistan, near the Garam Chashma hot springs. The earthquake occurred near the international border that Tajikistan shares with Afghanistan.

Guide To The Pamir Highway Road Trip: Our journey began with the dream of exploring Central Asia in a motorhome, but time constraints and border challenges reshaped our plans.