Peak Druzhba

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Peak Druzhba
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height 6800  m
location Circle wensu county in the administrative district of Aksu in Xinjiang ( China )
Mountains Meridional chain ( Tian Shan )
Dominance 7 km →  Rapassov Peak
Notch height 680 m ↓  ( 6120  m )
Coordinates 42 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 80 ° 16 ′ 2 ″  E Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 80 ° 16 ′ 2 ″  E
Druzhba Peak (China)
Peak Druzhba
First ascent 1953, A. Nozdrjukhin

The Pik Druzhba ( Russian Пик Дружба , "Friendship Summit "; also Pik Druzhby ; Anglicized: Druzhby Peak or Druzhba Peak ) is a mountain in the Chinese part of the Tian Shan not far from the border with Kyrgyzstan .

location

The 6800  m high Pik Druzhba lies in the meridional chain ( Meridianal'Nyj ). To the south the ridge leads to Pik Rapassow , to the north to Pik Thorez .

The Dschengisch Tschokusu ( Pik Pobeda ) rises 15 km southwest. The Khan Tengri is 12.5 km to the northwest.

The upper end of the southern Engiltschek glacier runs west of the Druzhba peak. Its tributary glaciers , the Druzhba and Nagel glaciers , are located on the north-west and south-west flanks of the mountain. The glaciated north-east and south-east flanks are drained to the east via the Tugbelchi glacier .

Before the border dispute was settled in 1999, Pik Druzhba was on the Sino-Kyrgyz border.

Minor peaks

The 6527  m high Pogrebetzki ( ⊙ ) rises 2.15 km west of Druzhba Peak . The mountain has a notch height of 287 m and was named after the Ukrainian mountaineer Michail Timofejewitsch Pogrebetzki .

1.85 km south of Pik Druzhba, on the ridge of Pik Rapassow, rises the 6565  m high secondary peak Pik Nagel (or Nagela , ⊙ ). The notch height is 185 m.

Ascent history

Pik Druzhba was first climbed in 1953.

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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.