Peak Lénine

The peak Lénine (In Russian: ПикЛенина , Pik Lenina ), called in the beginning Mont Kaufmann is more the high summit of the Chaîne Trans-Alay in Central Asia and the second of the Chaîne of Pamir, only exceeded by the Pic Ismail Samani (7495 m). It is located at the border between the Tadjikistan and the Kyrgyzstan.

History

The mountain holds its name of the revolutionary Russian and first chief of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lénine. It was believed that the peak Lénine was more the high summit of the Soviet Union until in 1933 the Pic Ismail Samani (then called peak Stalin ) was climbed and its precisely measured altitude. In 2006, it was renamed peak of Independence.

The peak Lénine was climbed for the first time in 1928 by Karl Wien, Eugene Allwein and Erwin Schneider, members of a German forwarding .

In 1974, many international forwardings tried the rise of the peak Lénine. A whole cord, only made up of female mountaineers, was killed at the time of a storm whereas it was with a high Altitude. A Avalanche started by a Earthquake fell on camp II and killed 43 mountaineers in 1990. It is the most fatal accident of the history of the alpinism.

Alpinism

There exist 16 roads known on the peak Lénine. Last nines are on the southern face and seven on the northern face. The peak is run enough of the mountaineers because of his easy access and of the absence of difficulties of certain ways. However, the peak, like often at these altitudes, knew many accidents.

The base camp is with Atchik Tash (3750 m). The beginning of the rise towards camp I (4200 meters) borrows the Col of the Travellers (4200 m). Camp II is with 5200 meters. Camp III is with 6000 meters. It is located on the collar which separates Rasedlnje and the edge is peak Lénine.

The zone of the top is very punt and is made up many small “tops”. It is consequently difficult to identify the official top.

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