Visit the Panjshir Valley

Korea’s most dramatic mountains — granite spires, the Ulsanbawi ridge and a cable car — blazing red in autumn.

Poetic landscape of lakes and fells.

Cloud-forest valley studded with 60-metre wax palms, the world’s tallest.

Berber villages below snowy peaks.

Glacial lake staircase high in the Rila mountains.

Turquoise alpine reservoir in the mountains above Almaty.

Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush — Afghanistan’s first national park.

High Hindu Kush pass and Soviet-era tunnel linking Kabul to the north.