Mramornaja Stena

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Mramornaja Stena - Plato of Spades
height 6146  m
location Audany Raiymbek in Almaty ( Kazakhstan ),
county wensu county in the administrative district of Aksu in Xinjiang ( China )
Mountains Meridional chain ( Tian Shan )
Dominance 3.17 km →  P6261
Notch height 376 m ↓  ( 5770  m )
Coordinates 42 ° 16'56 "  N , 80 ° 16'7"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 16'56 "  N , 80 ° 16'7"  E
Mramornaja Stena (Almaty)
Mramornaja Stena
First ascent 1946, V. Naumenko

The Mramornaja Stena ( Russian Мраморная стена ) is a mountain in the Tian Shan on the border between Xinjiang ( PR China ) and Kazakhstan .

location

The 6146  m high Mramornaja Stena (the summit is also called Pik Plato ) lies in the meridional chain (chrebet Meridianalny). It forms the branch point for westbound Sarydschaskette . The Khan Tengri rises 11 km to the southwest. On the southwest flank of Mramornaja Stena is the nutrient area of ​​the Northern Engiltschek Glacier . The Karagjul Glacier lies on the eastern flank .

The mountain ridge , which is up to 6261  m high, from Pik Plato in the north to Pik 100 Years of the Russian Geographical Society ( 6180  m ) is referred to as Mramornaja Stena on various maps .

Origin of name

The mountain name comes from Russian and means "marble wall". It is derived from the 400 m high rock faces made of yellow marble .

Ascent history

The Pik Plato (Mramornaja Stena) was first climbed in 1946.

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Individual evidence

  1. Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev: Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs (PDF (4.6 MB)) Alpine Journal, 1996, 122-130.