5034 x 3370 px | 42,6 x 28,5 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
agosto 2008
Ubicazione:
kyrgyzstan
Altre informazioni:
Kazakhstan is a huge country the size of Western Europe, which has vast mineral resources and enormous economic potential it also contains a The varied landscape that stretches from the mountainous, heavily populated regions of the east to the sparsely populated, energy-rich lowlands in the west, and from the industrialised north, with its Siberian climate and terrain, through to the arid empty steppes of the centre and the fertile south. Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence following the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 within the country lies the Tian Shan mountain range in the border region of Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan This photograph shows A MI-8 Military helicopter approaching base camp on the south Inylchek glacier in the high Tian Shen mountains of Kyrgyzstan as it prepares to remove a group of climbers. Running between the north face of the mountain of Kan Tengri and the south face of the mountain Pobeda this the 5th longest glacier in the world and is surrounded by the high snow covered mountains of one of the most remote mountain ranges in central Asia
