On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

Train conductor Airkir Duliki guides passengers to board the train orderly at a train station along the railway route linking Kashgar of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Chengdu ...

or De Wakhan Dehleez in Pashto – in the Pamir Mountains. Geographically this thin slice of land in the Badakhshan province (Afghanistan) is about 350 km long and 16 to 64 km wide. Wakhan or ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of ...

A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to the melting of alpine ice in the Rocky mountains. Scientists found more than 30 trees approximately 3100 metres above sea level ...

Some 17,000 people are working on the site which lies west of the capital Dushanbe, in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains. The site is already partially functioning but it is not known when ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a human-made pyramid. A mountain that's hidden in a sea of snow in Antarctica looks strikingly like an ancient Egyptian pyramid when viewed from above.

Italian authorities have launched a search and rescue operation with about 25 alpine rescue experts, firefighters and police focusing their efforts on the area around Adamello mountain range.

In 1981, he was the climbing lead for a successful first ascent of Kongur Tagh, the highest mountain in China’s Pamir Mountains. The main climb took eight days and pushed Bonington to his very ...