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.

Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of ...

Arctic air originating from Siberia will dominate the region, creating frigid conditions. Lows will drop into the teens (and single digits in the mountains), while highs remain in the 20s and 30s.

The 72-year-old dictator is said to be fanatical about using ancient remedies to prolong his life and give him strength and it appears as though he headed off to his bolthole mountain palace for ...

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 ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink ...

There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay. The city's Wikipedia page likens it to Winnipeg ...

There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay. The city's Wikipedia page likens it to Winnipeg ...

There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, where the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay. The city's Wikipedia page likens it to ...

There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, where the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay. The city's Wikipedia page likens it to ...