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Tian Shan

, Tien Shan
a great mountain system of central Asia, in Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China, extending for about 2500 km (1500 miles). Highest peak: Pobeda Peak, 7439 m (24 406 ft.)
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The significant increase in fall precipitation is mainly concentrated in the Tian Shan Mountains and southern Qinghai, while decreasing most significantly in the northeastern Gansu and southern Shaanxi.
In the Tian Shan mountains, the thickness of the seasonally thawed layer has increased 23 percent since the early 1970s.
The giant Ingeni-Khobur drainage basin in the center of the Trans-Altaic Gobi is bordered to the north by the high mountains of the Gobian Altai, to the west and northwest by high spurs of the Mongolian Altai, and to the south by the eastern massifs of the Tian Shan. The landscape in this extremely arid depression is absolutely lunar.
No signs of living people found head of rescue operation in Tian Shan says about missing alpinists AKIPRESS.COM - Kazakh military performed 14 overflights under the Victory peak in the Tian Shan mountains to search for missing alpinists that gave no results, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan reported.
Lake Kaindy, Tian Shan Mountains, Kazakhstan Spears of spruce rise up from the water at this pristine lake, where a forest was drowned by an earthquake in 1911.
Tian Shan Sea Hawks 08/11/16 Not Sched 1,200 GC Nil
The pup - nicknamed Gobi - joined racers as they set off over the Tian Shan Mountains in north-west China for the 155-mile slog in temperatures up to 52C.
The pup appeared as racers set off over the Tian Shan Mountains in north west China last month for the 155-mile Gobi March, part of the 4 Deserts race series, in temperatures up to 52C.
Bill said: "The route takes me through scorching hot deserts in Turkmenistan, along valleys in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, then climbs sharply upwards in Kyrgyzstan and over the Tian Shan Mountains into China.
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