High passes and steep cliffs allowed mountain outlaws to ambush travelers, evade authorities, and launch raids. Today: the bandits of China and Tibet.

A vast expanse of mountains in Asia will be among the worst hit by global climate change resulting in increased environmental hazards and insecurity to millions of people. According to the recently ...

The Pamir Mountains, known as the "Roof of the World," form a vast, high-altitude system at the crossroads of Central and ...

Average temperatures in high altitude areas have risen twice as fast as the global average, causing more river runoff and sediment flux, and the trend could get worse, scientists find Rivers flowing ...

Sonam Sherpa doing research on the Yala glacier in the Central Himalaya region of High Mountain Asia. The Yala glacier has shrunk in area by nearly 70% since the 1970s due to climate change. Glaciers ...

Majestic Peak of Asia: Mount Everest is known as the Majestic Peak of Asia because it is the highest mountain on the Asian continent and the tallest peak in the world. Rising far above all surrounding ...

The “Five Stans” – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – are formidable former Soviet Union republics in the heart of Central Asia. This Central Asian region, sprawling ...