Ile Alatau refers to the northern ridge of the Tien Shan mountainous country. Nomadic tribes of Kazakhs have named mountains as “Alatau” (translation means “motley”, “brindle”). A well-known Russian scientist and traveler Semenov-Tien-Shansky has called it’s as “Zailiyskie”. Mountains began to form 12 million years ago; active growth has been noted over the last million […]