Karl Marx peak
| Karl Marx peak | ||
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| height | 6726 m | |
| location | Nohija Roschtqala and Ishkashim in Gorno-Badakhshan ( Tajikistan ) | |
| Mountains | Chess Darakette ( Pamir ) | |
| Dominance | 42.81 km → Lunkho e Dosare | |
| Notch height | 2693 m ↓ (4030 m) | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 9 '45 " N , 72 ° 28' 54" E | |
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| First ascent | September 6, 1946 by Jewgeni Belezki u. a. | |
| Normal way | from the west over the glacier tongue | |
| particularities | highest peak of the Chachdara range | |
The Karl Marx Peak is a mountain in Central Asian mountains Pamir .
location
The mountain has a height of 6726 m , making it one of the 300 highest mountains in the world. It is the highest peak in the Chess Darak Range in the southeast of the Pamir Mountains.
Origin of name
It is named after the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx . Close to the mountain is the 6510 m high Engels Peak , named after Marx's friend and work partner Friedrich Engels .
The mountain got its name during the Soviet period. Before that, the first Russian explorers who visited the remote area called him Pik Zarja Mirotworza at the end of the 19th century , in German about "Summit of the Peacemaker-Tsar", after the contemporary honorary name of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. (1845–1894), during whose reign from 1881 the Russian Empire, in contrast to earlier epochs, had not waged any wars. The nearby Pik Engels was originally called Pik Imperatrizy Marii - "Summit of Empress Maria" after Alexander's wife Maria Feodorovna (1847–1928).
Minor peaks
In the south-east, Pik Karl Marx has two secondary peaks, Pik Nikoladze ( 6340 m , ⊙ ) and Pik Nikoladze South ( 6250 m , ⊙ ). These were named after the Georgian sculptor Jacob Nikoladze (1876–1951).
Ascent history
On September 6, 1946, seven members of a group (including Yevgeny Abalakov ) under the leadership of the Soviet climber Yevgeny Beletsky reached the top of the mountain. It was 1.30 p.m. when they started from the valley in the west of the mountain after their multi-day tour. The way led them over a glacier tongue , over which they took the longest way to the top. The sub-peak Pik Nikoladze was first climbed in 1964 by a group of mountaineers led by M. Gwarliani.
Web links
- Pik Karl Marx on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Pik Karl Marx at Peakware (English)
- Photo by Pik Engels and Pik Karl Marx at summitpost.org
- Photo and location sketch at Top Marx in Pamirs for AC climbers (Tim Sparrow) - alpinejournal.org.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pavel Sakharov: Угаров Алексей Сергеевич ( Russian ) www.mountain.ru . Retrieved September 6, 2016.
- ↑ a b Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev: Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs (PDF 4.6 MB) Alpine Journal, 1996, 122-130.