Mongolia is named one of most extreme locations

Oyundelger 2017-09-22 06:09

Tourism & Nature

National geographic Ed Stafford lists Mongolia as one of the 5 most extreme places on Earth

Prominent survival person on National geographic Ed Stafford lists Mongolia as one of the 5 most extreme places on Earth that he's survived. Ed Stafford did a survival challenge on Mongolian Altai Mountains in late winter, past year. He said that the landscape taught that survival there relies on teamwork. The Altai is one of the most rugged and most inhospitable peaks in the world. Without livestock, the mountains offer virtually nothing to a lone person trying to survive. It was a very humbling experience, said Ed Stafford. Mongolian Altai Mountains is a complex mountain system of Central Asia extending approximately 2,000 km in a southeast-northwest direction from the Gobi (Desert) to the West Siberian Plain, through China, Mongolia, Russia, and Kazakhstan. In the past these mountains were remote and sparsely populated; but in the 20th century they were opened to extensive resource exploitation, and the ancient ways of life of the local peoples have been rapidly transformed. Altai Mountains in western Mongolia inhabits Kazakh ethnic group of Mongolia.