| Mount Garmo | |
|---|---|
 The Pamirs | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 6,595 m (21,637 ft) |
| Coordinates | 38°48′N 72°4′E / 38.800°N 72.067°E[1] |
| Geography | |
  Location in Tajikistan | |
| Location | Tajikistan, northwestern Gorno-Badakhshan |
| Parent range | Pamir Mountains |
Mount Garmo (Tajik: Қуллаи Гармо, Qullai Garmo) is a mountain of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, Central Asia, with a height reported to be between 6,595 metres and 6,602 metres.[2]
There is a glacier on Mount Garmo, and the great Fedchenko Glacier (the longest glacier in the world outside the polar regions) flows to the east of it.[2] The nearest settlement is at Poimazor, some fifteen kilometres to the south (38° 39' 10 N, 71° 58' 2 E), which is at an altitude of 2785 metres.
There has been some uncertainty about the location of Garmo and also about the true height of the peak which now bears that name. While the present consensus is around 6,595 metres, as recently as 1973 the American Alpine Journal gave the height as 21,703 feet (6,615 m).[3]
- ^ Pik Garmo, Tajikistan at peakbagger.com, accessed 6 August 2008
- ^ a b (Russian) Памир at wiki.risk.ru, accessed 5 August 2008
- ^ American Alpine Journal for 1973, page 505 online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 6 August 2008