Alexander von Humboldt of Spades

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Alexander von Humboldt of Spades
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height 5020  m
location Ak-Suu Raion in Issyk Kul ( Kyrgyzstan )
Mountains Engiltschek chain ( Tian Shan )
Dominance 14 km →  Pik Nansen
Coordinates 42 ° 5 '38 "  N , 79 ° 28' 25"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 5 '38 "  N , 79 ° 28' 25"  E
Alexander von Humboldt of Spades (Kyrgyzstan)
Alexander von Humboldt of Spades
First ascent Alexios Passalidis (expedition leader) with Günter Meier, René Meier, Mathias Hascher, Hans-Jürgen Pawlizki and Oleg (mountain guide) on September 4, 2003

The Alexander von Humboldt peak is a 5020  m high mountain in the Engiltschek range in the Tian Shan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan .

It is located 29 kilometers west of the Schokalskowo peak , the highest peak in the Engiltschek range, and 26 kilometers north of the border with Xinjiang ( PR China ).

The previously unnamed mountain was in 2003 by an expedition of the Berlin section of the German Alpine Club at Mountain Guides Alexios Passalidis first climbed and after the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt named. The degree of difficulty of the route over a hanging glacier on the north-east side and the north ridge was given as 5A (Russian scale) or TD ( SAC mountain and alpine tour scale ) with an ice slope of 50 ° throughout, sometimes up to 85 °.

literature

  • Alexios Passalidis, Ines C. Koch: Pik Alexander von Humboldt - Members of the Berlin Alpine Club Section succeed in a first ascent in Tian-Shan. In: Berg 2005 (= Alpine Club Yearbook, Volume 129). ISSN  0179-1419 , pp. 88-95.
  • Ines C. Koch: A “nameless mountain” becomes “Pik Alexander von Humboldt” - first ascent of one of the most beautiful mountains in the Tien Shan Mountains. In: Der Berliner Bergsteiger (= newsletter of the Berlin section of the German Alpine Club ). No. 2, March / April 2004, ZDB -ID 2003500-7 , pp. 6-8.

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