The Pamir Highway is the second highest highway in the world. It was originally built by the Russians between 1931 and 1934 in order to move supplies, goods and military personnel during the war.

Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately ...

Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

Imagine standing on a vast plateau where the sky feels close enough to touch, and snow-capped peaks pierce the horizon in every direction. This is the legendary "Roof of the World," a term associated ...

Stretching for hundreds of kilometres across the rugged landscape of Tajikistan, the Pamir Mountains are a mindblowing sight for adventurers who dare take on the range’s dramatic peaks. Nicknamed the ...

As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...

THE third fasciculus of the Izvestia of the Russian, Geographical Society contains three very interesting, papers, by D. L. Ivanoff, on the Pamir, being the results; of the expedition of MM. Ivanoff, ...

On 15 August 2011 Sergey and Andrey Nefedov completed the route Transerfing (1500m, 7b+), the first free climb up the North Face of Ak-Su (5217m) in the Pamir Alay in Kyrgyzstan. The two brothers from ...

The remote location, scarcity of roads, absence of trains, and the Tajik government’s authoritarian practices have limited access to information about developments in the region. This has created an ...