City hall in Kazakhstan’s business capital is trying to draw more foreign tourists by making trekking in the nearby mountains a safer undertaking. ... Sagintayev said that 1,000 kilometers of mountain ...

The akimats (administrations) of the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan and the Almaty Region joined forces with the Kazakh Tourism company, announcing that they will launch a unified mountain tourism ...

Kazakhstan plans giant indoor city. ... To build it, Sembol had to hire and train up more than 400 Turkish mountain climbers who could work suspended at 150m in extreme wind and cold.

But the city remains the largest in Kazakhstan, with more than 1.6 million people spread out over an area of some 700 square kilometres, and it is a major centre for business and culture.

Imagine a ski slope right in the middle of a city - that's the vision of an architect in Kazakhstan. His urban ski slope would descend from the top of a 21-story apartment building.