While the Saylyugem and Ulandryk sectors have experienced human habitation for millennia - with the attendant grazing and hunting , the more inaccessible Argut sector has stayed relatively pristine . The Altai mountains are at the northern edge of the region tectonically affected by the collision of India into Asia ; the area is seismically active , with a major earthquake recently as the 2003 Altai earthquake . The rock types in the mountains are typically granites and metamorphic schists
2003 Altai earthquake
2003 Altai earthquake
Saylyugemsky National Park