A nomad drives a large group of cattle through a narrow mountain valley and across a river in the Tian Shen mountains
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 nomad driving a large group of cattle through a narrow mountain valley and across a river in the Tian Shen mountains of Kazakhstan which are one of the most remote mountain ranges in central Asia comprising an area of wooded valleys fast flowing rivers and high snow covered peaks which provide the rich summer pasture used by semi nomadic people who live in felt yurts
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