Spade Leipzig
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Пик Лейпциг
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| height | 5725 m | |
| location | Osh Region ( Kyrgyzstan ), Mountain Badakhshan ( Tajikistan ) | |
| Mountains | Transalai Mountains ( Pamir ) | |
| Dominance | 6.6 km | |
| Coordinates | 39 ° 20 '53 " N , 72 ° 28' 37" E | |
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| First ascent | 1989 | |
 Base camp below the north face of the Leipzig peak |
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The Pik Leipzig (Russian Пик Лейпциг) is a 5725 meter high mountain in the western Transalai Mountains of the Pamir . Its summit is right on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan .
Surname
The name of the mountain goes back to its first ascent in 1989. Back then, an expedition team from Leipzig managed to climb the summit for the first time and named it after the Saxon metropolis.
geography
The Leipzig peak is located in the north of the Pamir, 34.3 km west of Lenin peak . Here it rises in the western Transalai Mountains, which run along the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. In the north of Pik Leipzig is the Alaital and the small village of Achik-Suu. In the south is the uninhabited and more difficult to access Saukdaratal valley. Two larger glaciers are flowing towards the north (Achik-Suu glacier) and south (Tschakmantosch glacier) on the slopes of the mountain. The top of the mountain is heavily glaciated.
Ascent history
The Pik Leipzig was climbed for the first time on August 9, 1989 by a group of mountaineers from the GDR (including Ralf Brummer, Siegfried Wittig, Erhard Klingner, Wolfgang Hempel). They reached the high camp via its northern entrance. Somewhat in the shadow of Lenin Peak, no one set foot on the top of the mountain for a long time. It was not until 2014 that Ralf Brummer, the first to climb, initiated another Leipzig expedition. In the course of this, Steffen Löfflmann and Christian Vettermann managed to climb the mountain a second time. A day later the rest of the expedition team (Gerlind Löfflmann, Andreas Lamm and Marcus Stück) reached the summit. Further ascents are not documented.
literature
- Steffen Georgi: Saxon summit in the Pamir. In: Regjo 2/2014, pp. 73–75 ( PDF )
- Map sheet j-43-01 of the Soviet General Staff Map 1: 200,000
Web links
- http://pik-leipzig.de/ 25 years Pik Leipzig, Pamir expedition 2014
- mdr.de: 25 years later - on Pik Leipzig in the Pamir Mountains , accessed on March 1, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Postcards from Pik Leipzig. Retrieved March 1, 2015 .