From the moment I started climbing the 7,000-metre peaks of the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, something felt off. What followed will stay with me for ever ...

As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...

The Murghab district of Tajikistan sits high in the Pamir Mountains, a range sometimes referred to as the Roof of the World. Tourists often visit in summer to see the pristine landscapes and wildlife ...

Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A helicopter carrying climbers in Tajikistan crash-landed in the Central Asian nation's mountains, killing five of the 18 people on board, a Tajik official said Monday. The Mi-8 ...