Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The first known breeding area of one of the world’s rarest birds has ...

One day this April, when thick snow still covered the high-altitude Alai Valley, the small village of Taldy Suu saw a rare visit from a high-profile guest: President Sadyr Japarov. Japarov had come to ...

Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

The Badakhshan Ensemble takes its name from the mountainous region — poetically known in Persian as Bam-i Dunya, the "Roof of the World" — that comprises the sparsely populated eastern half of ...

Imagine standing on a vast plateau where the sky feels close enough to touch, and snow-capped peaks pierce the horizon in every direction. This is the legendary "Roof of the World," a term associated ...

From at least the sixth to eighth century A.D., the diverse peoples of Central Asia’s Pamir Mountains were under the rule of various kingdoms, including the Shughnān Kingdom. Although there is a ...

Stretching for hundreds of kilometres across the rugged landscape of Tajikistan, the Pamir Mountains are a mindblowing sight for adventurers who dare take on the range’s dramatic peaks. Nicknamed the ...

Resettling an entire ethnic group in another country is a monumental task fraught with legal, political, and logistical complications. But that’s what Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov wants to do with 1 ...