On 7 April the skiers Daniel Ladurner, Klaus Gruber, Michael Sinn, Wolfgang Hell and filmmaker Lukas Schäfer flew to Gorno Altaysk, the capital of the Republic of Altaj in order to explore the Altai ...

A group of researchers led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has discovered the first scientific evidence of genetic blending between Europeans and Asians in the remains of ancient ...

Journey through the Altai Mountains, a remote wilderness deep in Siberia. This footage captures towering snow-covered peaks, glacial rivers, and golden autumn forests spread across one of Russia’s ...

Ulagan in the Altai region offers a breathtaking winter scene where snow-covered mountains surround a calm alpine lake. The ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles. Arkalak, 12, right, with his ...

Open to the public from Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The towering, jagged Altai Mountains stretch some 2,100 km across China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan, the Russian section of this mountain ...

URUMQI, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The second edition of Winter Games Around Altai Mountains kicked off on Sunday in Altay City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The four-day event ...

The plot takes place in the Altai Mountains, where snow leopards, rare and majestic predators, face the threat of extinction. The main character of the film is a baby snow leopard, who has just been ...

In Russia's remote Altai region, people are heading to the mountains in thick snow to gather riches that literally grow on trees: pine nuts. Russia is the world's largest supplier of pine nuts. For ...