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A dozen young men and women stand before a rock face on the outskirts of Islamabad, they take turns climbing up the limestone.

Legendary Kazakhstani climber Anatoli Boukreev is one of the characters in the Hollywood movie Everest about the tragedy happened in 1996 during the ascent of Everest.

Dzhungar Alatau glaciers can disappear by 2080 and Kazakhstan will be experiencing water shortages, said Doctor of Geographical Sciences Igor Severskiy.

Mudflow consequences are still being remedied in Almaty that was hit by a powerful mud flow on July 23.

At aroud 2.15 am morainic lake Bezymyannoye at Kargaly glacier outburst. The water volume of the lake stood at 40 000 cubic meters. The outburst caused mud flows, with part of them overtopping the dam on the Kargaly River.


A woman from Kazakhstan was in the capital of Nepal, when the earthquake hit the country. She survived.

UK based marketing agency Captive Minds and Inge Solheim want to organize a film festival in the mountains of Almaty.

Shymbulak mountain skiing resort located not far from Almaty has began experiencing difficulties because of a big influx of visitors.

Kazakhstani freestyle association Off-Piste aims to conduct еру international freestyle championship Freeride World Tour in Almaty.

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China's mountainous Yunnan province, killing at least one person and injuring dozens of others.

An eyewitness has managed to capture the eruption of the Mount Ontake volcano in central Japan that started without warning this Saturday at noon.

Expedition of Kazakhstan National Geographic Society lays the foundation of a new National Park in Ulytau.

Rustic abodes in a picturesque hilltop village on the island of Sicily, once home to Italian peasants and their donkeys, are up for sale for just one euro.

Three climbers have fallen 800 metres to their death in the Mont Blanc range, the latest in a series of tragedies on Europe's highest mountain.

The village of Chattah with around a dozen men and women claiming to be at least a century old.

Traveler and mountain guide from Almaty Andrey Gundarev intends to be the first Kazakhstani to conquer 7 highest volcanoes on world's 7 continents.

The Tian Shan Astronomical Observatory in the mountains near Almaty, Kazakhstan has completed modernising its two telescopes.

A motorcyclist has crashed to death during a race in Almaty.

Kazakhstani mountain climber Maksut Zhumayev has successfully started his solo climb of the North America’s highest mountain peak Mount McKinley.
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