In western Mongolia’s Bayan-Ulgii province, home to the annual Golden Eagle Festival, a centuries-old tradition is alive in ...

The discovery of a Scythian boot provides insight into the craftsmanship and daily life of the ancient Scythian nomads.

This story appears in the December 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hunting party slowly glides into the Altay Mountains in search of elk. It is dead calm, minus 38°F. Just as ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. /TASS/. A tourist group consisting of nine people got into an avalanche in the Altai mountains on May 6, seven people died, while two tourists survived, the press service of ...

The discovery of the tomb in Husta has now extended the spatial and temporal distribution of rectangular stone-enclosed burial mounds to the western Tianshan Mountains region in the early Bronze Age, ...

Ecologists from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified multiple exogenous factors that can affect the onset of wood formation and quantified the key ...

Altai is a vast and picturesque region located in Siberia, Russia, near the borders of Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia. It is famous for its stunning mountain ranges, deep valleys, pristine rivers ...

The teenager's wish was fulfilled when he returned home to Meilifeng village at the foot of the Altay Mountains in January for his school's winter break. Heavy snowfall during the long winter ...