High in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains in remote Kyrgyzstan the air is as clean as just about anywhere on Earth, the sense of freedom and escape from the mundanities of everyday life is ...

A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them. One of the trekkers, Briton Harry Shimmin, managed to capture on ...

A group of 10 tourists - nine Brits and one American - who were caught in the avalanche in the Tian Shan mountains managed to avoid serious injury, but ended up with a great story and astonishing ...

The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over the past 50 years — a rate of loss about four times greater than the global average during that ...

The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over the past 50 years — a rate of loss about four times greater than the global average during that ...

One of the longest mountain ranges in Central Asia, the Tian Shan mountain range, forms a bumpy border between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and western China. The Tian Shan, seen here in a picture taken ...