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The event, now in its third year, drew designers and fashion-industry figures from about 20 countries to shimmering Lake Issyk-Kul to admire outfits drawing on Kyrgyzstan’s millennia-old nomadic culture.

Based on their analysis of the preserved genetic material, the researchers report that the Black Death arrived in 1338 or 1339 near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area just west of China in what is now Kyrgyzstan.

Zhaparov’s supporters, who forced the president’s resignation, were bused to the capital from his home region of Issyk-Kul.

Fresh from completing some 800km across Drake Passage, from the tip of South America to Antarctica, Bellamy had next set his sights on the longest unassisted swim across Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan.

The pandemic meant Bellamy also had to shelve his project to swim across Issyk-Kul but time stuck indoors has got him thinking.