Mighty Panj River, seen from the Tajik side. The rugged Pamir Mountains has been the target for strategic military ground for numerous empires throughout the years, and the Mujahideen used the ranges ...
Tajikistan will later this month conduct another round of joint military exercises in its high-altitude Pamirs region with China’s armed forces, lending weight to suspicions that Dushanbe is ...
As the Summit County community is adjusting to a world without longtime local and Keystone Center founder Bob Craig, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” his ...
The Pamir Mountains served as a natural boundary between two old empires – Chinese and Russian. Stretching for hundreds of miles, and reaching an elevation of 7,500 meters (24,000 feet), the Pamirs ...
Flanked by the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Kunlun mountain ranges in Central Asia, the Pamirs are the area where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and China meet. This remote mountainous ...
The action takes place in the early 20s in a mountainous village in the Pamirs, where people live in almost primitive poverty and scarcity. A detachment of Red Army soldiers comes here. The commander ...
As the Summit County community is adjusting to a world without longtime local and Keystone Center founder Bob Craig, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” his ...
As the snows return to the High Country, and the high peaks become inaccessible to all but the most intrepid, it is perhaps a good time to revisit “Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs,” longtime local ...