To get there we had driven down from Barnaul, the Russian Altai’s only major airport, to Karakol, and had traversed 300 miles of glacier-topped mountains, glistening streams and pine-covered valleys.

Journey through the Altai Mountains, a remote wilderness deep in Siberia. This footage captures towering snow-covered peaks, ...

Journey through the Altai Mountains in 4K, a remote wilderness deep in Siberia. This footage captures towering snow-covered ...

In a remote cave nestled in the Altai Mountains of southern Russia, scientists are uncovering the secrets of ancient human life. Here in this cave, ancient peoples like the Neanderthals found shelter ...

2001: Joint UNESCO/UNDP mission; 2007, 2012: Joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions 2012 Report on the Joint WHC/IUCN Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Golden Mountains of ...

The fourth this year Russian cargo spacecraft Progress was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 24 BARNAUL, August 29 (Itar-Tass) — The weather conditions have been complicating the search ...

Dr. Taylor Hermes of the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has received grants from the National Geographic Society and the Wenner-Gren ...

Russians living in Siberia's Altai Mountains make a living by cutting the antlers off Maral deers. The dried antlers are sold for more than $300 per kilogram to China and South Korea, where people ...

The expedition was a joint effort of the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard during the summer of 1912, to study sheep, ibex, and other large game in the ...

Questions: We discovered forests with very high local numbers of vascular plant species in southern Siberia. Are these the most species-rich forests of the Eurasian boreal and temperate zones, and ...