Lenin Peak

Lenin Peak
Ibn Sina Peak
Lenin Peak from Sary-Mogol
Highest point
Elevation7134 m[1]
Prominence2,853 m (9,360 ft) Edit this on Wikidata[1]
ListingUltra
Coordinates39°20′33″N 72°52′39″E / 39.34250°N 72.87750°E / 39.34250; 72.87750[1]
Geography
Lenin Peak is located in Tajikistan
Lenin Peak
Lenin Peak
Location in Tajikistan, on the Kyrgyzstan border
LocationKyrgyzstanTajikistan border
Parent rangeTrans-Alay Range (Pamirs)
Climbing
First ascent1928 by Karl Wien, Eugen Allwein and Erwin Schneider
Easiest routerock / snow / ice climb

Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak (Kyrgyz: Ленин Чокусу, romanizedLenin Choqusu, لەنىن چوقۇسۇ; Russian: Пик Ленина, romanizedPik Lenina; Tajik: қуллаи Ленин, romanizedqulla‘i Lenin/qullaji Lenin, renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино (qulla‘i Abûalî ibni Sino) in July 2006[2]), rises to 7,134 metres (23,406 ft) in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border, and is the second-highest point of both countries. It is considered one of the less technical 7,000 m peaks in the world to climb and it has by far the most ascents of any 7,000 m or higher peak on Earth, with every year seeing hundreds of mountaineers make their way to the summit.[3] Lenin Peak is the highest mountain in the Trans-Alay Range of Central Asia, and in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan it is exceeded only by Ismoil Somoni Peak (7,495 m). It was thought to be the highest point in the Pamirs in Tajikistan until 1933, when Ismoil Somoni Peak (known as Stalin Peak at the time) was climbed and found to be more than 300 metres higher. Two mountains in the Pamirs in China, Kongur Tagh (7,649 m) and Muztagh Ata (7,546 m), are higher than the Tajik summits.

  1. ^ a b c Peaklist.org listed here as Pik Achiktash (ex. Lenina) retrieved 21-09-2011
  2. ^ Government Resolution No. 297, July 4, 2006, Dushanbe Archived November 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (Tajik); for Russian text see Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Lenin Peak on summitpost.org retrieved 21-09-2011