We'd arrived at Saty, a small village in southern Kazakhstan, after driving all day from Almaty through an otherworldly terrain of wide steppe grasslands, narrow gorges and snow-capped mountains.

Unrelated photos of people wearing protective gear emerging from hillside tunnels have been shared in posts that falsely ...

Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of southern Kazakhstan. Anna Yu/Alamy The foothills of Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan mountains are something of a genetic wonderland. This vast ...

a 500m-long slackline between two mountains, over the floor of what was once an ancient ocean. This is Bozzhyra, in Kazakhstan – and while the name Bozzhyra means 'grey land', it's clear from ...