"Xinjiang's North Pole" stands at the top of where China's map ends, in the middle of the Altay Mountains, just south of where four countries touch. Hemu's identity is shaped by the snowbanks that ...

URUMQI, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The third Winter Games Around the Altai Mountains opened Tuesday in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The event runs through Friday and features 16 ...

URUMQI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- "Who could have imagined 20 years ago that our snow would turn into a treasure mountain bringing prosperity?" said Huanishibek Slanbek,a fifth-generation inheritor of the ...

Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles. Arkalak, 12, right, with his ...

M. B. VON COTTA, who once visited the Altai Mountains, is decidedly of opinion that there are no traces of the Ice period on this range. But at the southern part of the Altai, where there are some ...

URUMQI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — "Who could have imagined 20 years ago that our snow would turn into a treasure mountain bringing prosperity?" said Huanishibek Slanbek, a fifth-generation inheritor of the ...

The plot takes place in the Altai Mountains, where snow leopards, rare and majestic predators, face the threat of extinction. The main character of the film is a baby snow leopard, who has just been ...

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 ...