Muztagh Ata in the context of "Taghdumbash Pamir"

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👉 Muztagh Ata in the context of Taghdumbash Pamir

Taghdumbash Pamir (Chinese: 塔克敦巴什帕米尔 or historically Chinese: 塔德八士) or Taxkorgan Nature Reserve is a pamir or high valley in the south west of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Xinjiang, China. It lies to the west of the Karakoram Highway. It is inhabited by Wakhi, Kirghiz and Sarikolis animal herders, who graze yaks and other animals on the grasslands of the Pamir.

The name Taghdumbash Pamir is also sometimes applied to the mountain ranges surrounding the Pamir, on the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan with China, straddling the Pamir Mountains along the Sarikol Range, the Hindu Kush, the Mustagh mountains, and the Wakhan. The range divides Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan, and Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan.

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Muztagh Ata in the context of Lenin Peak

Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak is a mountain in the Trans-Alay Range of the Pamir Mountains, in the Gorno-Badakhshan and Osh regions on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border. At 7,134 metres (23,406 ft), it is the second-highest point of both countries (after Ismoil Somoni Peak in Tajikistan and Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan) and the tallest mountain of the Trans-Alay Range. It is considered one of the least technical 7,000 m peaks in the world to climb and has the most ascents of any peak over 7,000 metres, with hundreds of climbers attempting it annually.

Lenin Peak was thought to be the highest point in the Pamirs in Tajikistan until 1933, when Ismoil Somoni Peak (known as Stalin Peak at the time) was climbed and found to be more than 300 metres higher. Two mountains in the Pamirs in China, Kongur Tagh (7,649 m) and Muztagh Ata (7,546 m), are higher than the Tajik summits.

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