Spades Saxonia
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| height | 5345 m | |
| location | Osh Region ( Kyrgyzstan ), Mountain Badakhshan ( Tajikistan ) | |
| Mountains | Transalai Mountains ( Pamir ) | |
| Coordinates | 39 ° 22 '31 " N , 72 ° 28' 57" E | |
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| First ascent | 1989 | |
 Pamir base camp 2016 |
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The Pik Saxonia is a mountain in the Pamir and lies directly on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan . The 5345 meter high peak is located in the western Transalai Mountains .
Surname
The name of the mountain goes back to its first ascent in 1989. An expedition team from Leipzig managed the first ascent of the nearby Pik Leipzig and the smaller neighboring summit was named Pik Saxonia (Saxonia means "Saxony" in Latin). In contrast to the Pik Leipzig, however, the mountain does not have an official document from the Kyrgyz state that officially confirms the name and the first ascent.
geography
Peak Saxonia is located in the north of the Pamir, about 34 km west of Peak Lenin . Here it rises in the western Transalai Mountains, which run along the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as a flattened summit with an area of several hundred square meters. If you follow the state border further south, a little lower after about 800 m as the crow flies there is a place for the high camp at 5,100 m above sea level to climb the Pik Leipzig and after about 1,500 m as the crow flies (horizontal distance) the heavily glaciated Pik Leipzig rises again about 600 meters up. In the north of the Pik Saxonia lies the Alaital and the small village Achik-Suu. At the foot of the mountain, far in front of the village, at an altitude of 3,600 meters in summer, there is a nomad camp with the yurts typical of the country as a summer residence for the shepherds and their families. 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. In the summer of 2016, the Atschik-Suu glacier was no longer directly connected to the mountain range and was buried under a layer of dark gravel, some meters thick. When it rains and fresh snow, the rocky gullies swell into bubbling watercourses even in summer.
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). Members of the first expedition also climbed Peak Saxonia. After that the summit was probably climbed again by mountaineers from Halle. In 2013, Pik Saxonia was climbed by Christian Vettermann and Max Hückel (see individual records below). A year later, Ralf Brummer, who first climbed Pik Leipzig, and Christian Vettermann, who also came from Leipzig, initiated another Leipzig expedition to Pik Leipzig. In the course of this, members of the group succeeded in climbing Pik Saxonia one more time in addition to Pik Leipzig. In September 2016, mountaineers Matthias Gehling, Hans Wagner and Michael Schwipps from Leipzig once again reached the summit of Pik Saxonia. Further ascents have not yet been 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
- ^ Hikr.org - Pik Leipzig (5725m) - A journey to the Pamir. Retrieved September 22, 2016 .