"I rappelled down to him and stayed with him for four hours until his light faded," Ondrej Huserka's climbing partner said in ...

In 2023, researchers ventured into the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan to survey the largely unexplored wildlife there. During the expedition, they came across a pair of wolf spiders hiding ...

Mighty Panj River, seen from the Tajik side. The rugged Pamir Mountains has been the target for strategic military ground for numerous empires throughout the years, and the Mujahideen used the ...

(See local life on a journey through Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains.) Qalai Khumb is the nearest major town to Castle Karon and offers accommodations, including a modern hotel. Today, the nearest ...

Most of the territory consists of east–west mountain ranges ... of the illicit trade along the country’s section of the Pamir Highway, a 1,200km road that runs through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan ...

Tajikistan National Park covers more than 2.5 million hectares in the east of the country, at the centre of the so-called “Pamir Knot”, a meeting point of the highest mountain ranges on the Eurasian ...

Spanning across four national borders and covering an area of approximately 100,000sq km, Pamir Mountains (historically known as Congling) lies at the junction of four major mountain ranges ...

From at least the sixth to eighth century A.D., the diverse peoples of Central Asia’s Pamir Mountains were under the rule of various kingdoms, including the Shughnān Kingdom. Although there is ...