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 ranges ...

The action takes place in the early 20s in a mountainous village in the Pamirs, where people live in almost primitive poverty and scarcity. A detachment of Red Army soldiers comes here. The commander ...

Tajikistan will later this month conduct another round of joint military exercises in its high-altitude Pamirs region with China’s armed forces, lending weight to suspicions that Dushanbe is ...

The Pamir mountains in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan were once the remotest frontier of the Russian Empire. But the last Russian forces left this region on the northern borders of ...

As the Summit County community is adjusting to a world without longtime local and Keystone Center founder Bob Craig, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” his ...

The Pamir Mountains served as a natural boundary between two old empires – Chinese and Russian. Stretching for hundreds of miles, and reaching an elevation of 7,500 meters (24,000 feet), the Pamirs ...

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 ...

The Mountains of the Pamirs in Tajikistan and 16 wooden tserkvas, or churches, in Poland and Ukraine have been added to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and ...

As the Summit County community is adjusting to a world without longtime local and Keystone Center founder Bob Craig, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” his ...

As the snows return to the High Country, and the high peaks become inaccessible to all but the most intrepid, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” longtime local ...