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

Once part of the legendary Silk Road, Central Asia’s Pamir Mountains might be the world’s last true adventure. Pascal Mannaerts Known in Persian as the “Bam-i-Dunya” (Roof of the World ...

According to the study, people living 2,500 years ago in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia were using cannabis for religious purposes. Its psychoactive properties likely served as a vehicle for ...

(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 ...

Located high up in the picturesque mountains of Tajikistan, along the border with China and Afghanistan, the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, has remained without much contact with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...