They were 'only' 4,000m peaks, but the two winter climbs in Kazakhstan's isolated Tien Shan mountains gave the pair all they ...

When looking for a sustainable community-based travel company, there are a few things to look out for. One rule of thumb is that small is best. Tour groups of no more than eight people allow for more ...

The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山 ("celestial mountains"); Pinyin: Tiān Shān; Uyghur: تەڭرىتاغ Tengri Tagh), also commonly spelled Tien Shan, is a mountain range located in Central Asia.

In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in what is now Kyrgyzstan, tombstones in the Kara-Djigach cemetery with Syriac inscriptions showed that the village’s death rate skyrocketed over a two-year ...