Kirill Belotserkovskiy and Ira Kozlovskaya recently spent a week climbing in Kazakhstan's northern Tien Shan. First they climbed Igly Tuyuk-Su, a 4,000m peak south of Almaty, near the Kyrgyz border.

In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in what is now Kyrgyzstan, tombstones in the Kara-Djigach cemetery with Syriac inscriptions showed that the village’s death rate skyrocketed over a two-year ...

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