Kirill Belotserkovskiy and Ira Kozlovskaya recently spent a week climbing in Kazakhstan's northern Tien Shan. First they climbed Igly Tuyuk-Su, a 4,000m peak south of Almaty, near the Kyrgyz border.

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The Italian mountaineer Simone Moro plans to a six-month winter tour to climb mountains in the Tien Shan, Everest and Lhotse, and in doing so hopes to become the first Italian Snow Leopard On 21 ...

Caro North, Soledad de las Nieves, and Tatin Sanchez likely made the first ski descent of 5,000m Pogranichnik Peak, which is on the border of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Pogranichnik Peak lies in the ...

The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) roughly east-west across Central Asia. This image ...

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The transnational property is located in the Tien-Shan mountain system, one of the largest mountain ranges in the world. Western Tien-Shan ranges in altitude from 700 to 4,503 m. It features diverse ...

Extending more than 1,500 miles across Central Asia, the Tien Shan is one of the longest continuous mountain ranges anywhere on Earth. This photograph, which documents the central section of the range ...

The glaciers of Central Asia’s Tien Shan mountain range have lost a quarter of their ice mass over the past five decades, largely because of increased melting linked to a rise in summer temperatures, ...