Khan Tengri
Peak of Khan Tengri at sunset
Elevation:	7,010 metres (22,998 feet)
Location:	Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan
Coordinates:	42°12′N, 80°10′E
First ascent:	1931
Easiest route:	glacier/snow/ice/rock climb

Khan Tengri (Chinese, translated as "Lord of the spirits", or "Lord of the sky"; or Turkic translated as "Ruler of Skies", "Ruler Tengri") is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. It is located on the Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan border, east of lake Issyk Kul. Its geologic elevation is 6995 m (22,949 ft) but its glacial cap rises to 7,010 m (22,998 ft). For this reason, in mountaineering circles, including for the Soviet Snow Leopard award criteria, it is considered a 7000-metre peak. It is also known as: Khan Tangiri Shyngy, Kan-Too Chokusu, Pik Khan-Tengry, Hantengri Feng. Image File history File links Peak_of_Khan_Tengri_at_sunset. ... A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Southern and northern Mount Everest climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山; Pinyin: Tiān Shān; celestial mountains) mountain range is located in Central Asia, in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of western China. ... The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Issyk Kul (also Ysyk Köl) is an endorheic lake in the northern Tien Shan mountains in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... The Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. ...

Khan Tengri is the second-highest mountain in the Tian Shan, surpassed only by Peak Pobeda (7439 m) a few miles to the south. Khan Tengri is the highest point in Kazakhstan and the third-highest peak in Kyrgyzstan, after Pobeda and the Pamir's Lenin Peak (7,134 m). Peak Pobeda (also Pik Pobedy, Sheng-li Feng) is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. ... Located in Central Asia, the Pamir Mountains are formed by the junction of the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges. ... Lenin Peak (Russian: Пик Ленина, Pik Lenina), originally known at Mount Kaufmann, is the highest mountain in the Trans-Altai range of central Asia and the second highest peak in the Pamir Mountains (7134m or 23,406 ft). ...

Features

Khan Tengri is a massive marble pyramid, covered in snow and ice. At sunset the marble glows red, giving it the Kazakh name "Kan Tau" (blood mountain). Located just across the South Ingelchek (or Inylchek) glacier, ten miles north of Peak Pobeda, Khan Tengri was originally thought to be the highest peak in the Tien Shan because of its dramatic shape, compared to the massive bulk of Pobeda. Khan Tengri is the highest peak in the extreme Tengri Tag subrange, also known as the Mustag, that also contains peaks Chapaeva and Gorkova. Anatoli Boukreev considered Khan Tengri perhaps the world's most beautiful peak because of its geometric ridges and its symmetry. Peak Pobeda (also Pik Pobedy, Sheng-li Feng) is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. ... Anatoli Nikoliavich Boukreev (January 16, 1958 - December 25, 1997) was a Russian climber who made seven ascents of 8,000 metre peaks without supplemental oxygen. ...

History

South Inylchek Base Camp, at 4,000 m on the glacier's southern moraine, looking northwest to Pik Chapaeva and Khan Tengri in the distance

Although it is 1,500 ft lower than its near neighbor to the south, Khan Tengri was believed to be the highest peak in the range until Peak Pobeda's discovery in 1946. Image File history File linksMetadata South_Inylchek_Base_Camp. ... Image File history File linksMetadata South_Inylchek_Base_Camp. ... Peak Pobeda (also Pik Pobedy, Sheng-li Feng) is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

The first ascent of the peak was made in 1931 by Mikhail Pogrebetsky's Ukrainian team from the south, along the west ridge. M. Kuzmin's team made the first ascent from the north in 1964. Khan Tengri is one of 5 peaks that a Soviet mountaineer needed to scale to earn the prestigous Snow Leopard award. In 2004, it was the site of a terrible catastrophe as more than a dozen mountaineers were killed in a large avalanche on the mountain's most popular route. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... The Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Khan Tengri on SummitPost
• Khan Tengri on Peakware
• Khan-Tengri climbing information