Altai Mountain Trek

The Altai is the highest of three major mountain ranges in Mongolia and straddles the Russian and Chinese frontiers in the west. This region of snow-capped mountains and glaciers is home to many minority nomads such as the Kazakhs, who are Muslim and speak an ancient Kazakh language, and the Tuvans, who are Buddhist and shamanistic. On this dramatic journey you will trek to the Potanina Glacier before continuing across the high Altai range and into the lakes region, close to the Chinese border. Supported by pack camels and local guides you’ll explore a region so remote that only a handful of travelers visit each year. Here you will experience a lifestyle untouched in centuries, a near-mythic land where proud hunters train golden eagles and snow leopards lurk nearby.