Tourists spend three days skiing and hiking, then will pass the Kuzuyak mountain crossing (1513 meters high) and visit “centers of energy” (mysterious natural monuments of Altai) as well as Ak ...

Many tourist facilities in Altai offer horseback riding and hiking for one or more. It’s hard to be bored in this beautiful landscape: wherever you go you will find mountains, rivers ...

One place in the Altai Mountains can look completely different depending on the weather. It is almost useless trying to forecast weather while hiking there. A cloudless, shining heaven may ...

Hundreds of Kazakhs brave temperatures of -40C between February and April each year as they make the 100-mile trek across the Altai mountains in western Mongolia. Photographer Timothy Allen ...

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 ...

The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...