When Angus Paradice was 11, he went to the Nadaam festival in Mongolia two years ago on a family holiday and watched the traditional horse racing for children, thinking: ''I could do that.''
Back at home in Scone, north-west of Newcastle, he trained for nine months, riding his horse 22 kilometres home from school if it was fine and jogging if it rained. He did 40 push-ups and sit-ups a
Mongolia has formulated its state policy over exploration and exploitation of its uranium reserve, which is believed to shelter six percent of world’s total, S.Enkhbat, Chief of the Mongolian Nuclear Energy Authority, briefed at the 53rd IAEA General Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland on September 16.
At this time of year the summer pastures in the Altay Mountains in western Mongolia are strewn with belongings, and there’s a steady trickle of baggage-laden camels, yaks and horses down the slopes. Fall is fast approaching, and the Mongol and Kazakh herders who inhabit this land of craggy peaks, wide valleys and silver blue lakes are on the move, heading for lower pastures until winter
The international group of riders pounded 860 kilometres (530 miles) across the Asian country's vast grasslands in the 10-day Mongol Derby, which organisers call the world's longest horse race.
The Adventurists, a Britain-based organisation that dreamed up the derby, designed the race as a way to promote Mongolian tradition and culture -- while raising money for charity.
Armed with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia's Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.
The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or "intestine worm" because it resembles a cow's intestine and is about 1.5m long.
The worm apparently jumps out of
Funds raised one quarter at a time in Colorado Springs are helping to protect endangered snow leopards in distant Mongolia.
Under the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s Quarters for Conservation program, which is in its second year, a quarter from each admission— or $2.50 from each family membership — goes to wildlife conservation. Visitors receive a token to vote for their favorite program among
- Mongolian parliament uncorks foreign investment bottleneck
- Copper, gold, coal, uranium seen ripe for development
- Third of population likely to remain in poverty for years
- Govt could use revenue to set up budget stabilisation fund
Deep in the Larch Forests of Northern Mongolia lives a tiny tribe of people known as the Dukha. For more than 3,000 years they have survived as nomads, moving camp 10 times a year across the mountains. Their existence is pinned on one animal: the reindeer. But their unique way of life now hangs in the balance.
