Angel of Spades
| Spades (Friedrich) Engels | ||
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 Angel of Spades from the north |
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| height | 6510 m | |
| location | Nohija Roschtqala and Ishkashim in Gorno-Badakhshan ( Tajikistan ) | |
| Mountains | Chess Darakette ( Pamir ) | |
| Dominance | 3.9 km → Pik Karl Marx | |
| Notch height | 900 m ↓ ( 5610 m ) | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 10 ′ 18 ″ N , 72 ° 31 ′ 22 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | 1954 | |
| Normal way | from the west over the glacier tongue | |
The Pik (Friedrich) Engels is a mountain in the Pamir Mountains .
location
The mountain has a height of 6510 m . The Pik Engels is the third highest mountain in the Chess Dara chain in the southwest of the Pamir Mountains.
Origin of name
The namesake is the German philosopher and economist Friedrich Engels . 3.9 km west-southwest of the mountain is the 6,726 m high Karl Marx peak , named after Engels' friend and work partner Karl Marx .
The mountain got its name during the Soviet period. Previously, he was one of the first Russian explorers to visit the remote area. Towards the end of the 19th century originally Pik Imperatrizy Marii - "Summit of Empress Maria" after Maria Fjodorovna, born Dagmar of Denmark (1847–1928) the wife of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. (1845-1894) named.
Ascent history
The first ascent was made in 1954 by a group of mountaineers led by M. Gvarliani.
Web links
- Pik Engels at Peakware
- Photo by Pik Engels and Pik Karl Marx at summitpost.org
- Sketch of the situation at alpinejournal.org.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Pik Engels in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ www.peakware.com
- ↑ Tim Sparrow: Top Marx in Parmirs for AC climbers (PDF 5.4 MB) Alpine Journal, 2007.
- ↑ Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev: Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs (PDF 4.6 MB) Alpine Journal, 1996, 122-130.