The new government of the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has decided to name a mountain after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The peak, which is 4,446m (14,586ft) tall, is in Chuy ...

Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, is renowned for its stunning mountain scenery and nomadic heritage. It shares borders with China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Danish alpinist Kristoffer Szilas reports about his expedition to the Djangart Region in Kyrgyzstan which resulted in four new ... days we split into three separate teams and explored the mountains ...

Most of us couldn’t enter ‘Kyrgyzstan’ into a Google search, much less find it on a map. But for skier Kasidin Musaev, this place is home—a country where mountains make up 80 percent of the terrain ...

Activists in a nature reserve in central Kyrgyzstan have reintroduced elk ... Thirty elk from the Altai Mountains were introduced to the area two years ago. Native species of mountain elk were ...

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