Mongolia
Giant Billboards Paint a Discordant Portrait of Mongolian Desertification
Daesung Lee breaks down the fourth wall between large-scale dioramas of threatened environments and the modern nomadic peoples affected by them.
China Might Be Killing Off a Pikachu-Like Animal For No Reason
Officials' effort to eliminate pikas — deemed a pest — for nearly 50 years could be harming an important ecosystem, say scientists.
Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb from Space
How the "modern-day Indiana Jones" and thousands of crowdsourced amateur archaeologists are tracking down one of the most elusive burial grounds in the world.
Drink Up Before You Light the Fireworks in Inner Mongolia
My best friend Luxin’s uncle Erjiu is a small Chinese man living in Inner Mongolia who likes to drink too much liquor and then shoot off full-size fireworks. I joined him and his family to eat delicious lamb parts in the middle of nowhere.
Tibetan Yak Butter Tea Is as Chunky as It Sounds
My job as a professional climber and photographer has taken me to some of the most remote regions in the world. When I was asked to join three of my heroes to traverse through Tibet's Changtang plateau, I drank yak butter tea as a sort of hazing...
Huang's World: Mongolia, Part 3
Eddie eats musky sheep eyeballs, appears on Mongol television, and chats with some local fans about the country's attempt to retain its cultural identity in the face of a new mining project in the Gobi Desert.
Huang's World: Mongolia, Part 2
Eddie checks out some questionable (... pause ...) meat at a market in Ulan Bator, then attends a massive outdoor metal festival and learns how to make khorkhog.
Huang's World: Mongolia, Part 1
Eddie heads to Mongolia to take part in the Naadam festival, which celebrates the "three manly sports"—archery, horse racing, and Mongolian wrestling. Then, he chats with some camel herders over a cup of home-brewed camel vodka.
Meet the Two English Guys Who Started a Mongolian Soccer Team
Earlier this year I spoke to a couple of English guys who'd moved to the tiny Micronesian island of Pohnpei to coach a soccer team. No one thought it...
Why Did Is Tropical Make A NSFW Masturbation Fantasia Music Video?
We asked them why the video for 'Dancing Anymore' featured a 30ft digital porn star and talked to them about their recent trip to Mongolia.
Going Underground with the Homeless of Ulan Bator
Mikel Aristregi's new series documents the desolate homeless people of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, who attempt to escape the bone-chilling cold by living in the intricate underground tunnels that house the city's hot water pipes, while getting wasted off of...
The Best Sumo Wrestlers Are No Longer Japanese
Sumo wrestling is globalizing. A Harvard researcher says that's a good thing.