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Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin, 'The journeys of discovery undertaken through two decades by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins...

News From Antiwar.com CNN reports that a U.S. defense official informed them Washington is considering deploying warships to the Black Sea as a demonstration of support to the government of Ukraine in response to what was described as increased Russian military presence on Ukraine’s eastern border. The Black Sea is nowhere near the current conflict zone in the Donbass, east of which the alleged Russian build-up is occurring. The feature mentioned that U.S. Navy routinely operates in the Black Sea, crisis or no crisis, but that dispatching additional warships to the sea would “send a speci...

posted on 16/03/21 For insight into what ‘global’ meant in times before globalisation, we have the Silk Road. A network of sometimes secure and other times fraught traders’ tracks crisscrossed 2,000 years of civilisation between the Mediterranean, India and China, and in the middle, the cities of Central Asia caught glimpses of the world on all sides. These cities and their transregional interactions across Eurasia gave shape to important phenomena, such as Sufism, the Mongol Empire, and Uyghur culture, and left their mark on world history.  This series explores key social, cultural an...

February 17, 2021 A multivolume set of books on Uzbekistan's cultural treasures is shown at a conference in Tashkent. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Uzbekistan’s Alisher Navoiy National Library is named after him. So is a metro station in Tashkent, the nation’s capital. Not to mention Navoi International Airport, as well as Uzbekistan’s second-largest province, Navoiy— home to a million people—and even a 41-mile-wide crater on the planet Mercury. We’re talking here, of course, about 15th-century poet, statesman and scholar Alisher Navoiy—considered the father of Uzbek literature. On Fe...

AT News KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan. 13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and maimed. The war also took hundreds of thousands victims from Afghans, while millions fled the country. This was the intensive part of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States with their allies. Although the Soviet Union ended invasion of Afghanistan, but the war continues til...