Well, the select club of epic walls might get another addition: the Siberia Wall in the Altai Mountains. Today, the wall system is barely visible, but it must have been truly humbling in its time.

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

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The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...

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