Pik Pobeda
Mountain · 7,439 m
Pik Pobeda is a mountain rising to 7,439 metres (24,406 ft) in Kyrgyzstan and China, in the Asia region. The summit stands on the border between them. From PeakBagger.com, with kind permission..
The Jengish Chokusu is the highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain system in Central Asia at 7,439 metres (24,406 ft). It lies on the China–Kyrgyzstan border between the Ak-Suu District in the Issyk-Kul Region of far eastern Kyrgyzstan and Wensu County, Xinjiang, China. It is part of the Kakshaal Too, the highest part of the Tian Shan, and is southeast of lake Issyk-Kul. Jengish Chokusu is the 16th most prominent peak on Earth.
Adapted from Wikipedia: Jengish Chokusu (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Elevation
- 7,439 m (24,406 ft)
- Global rank
- #15 of 641 indexed
- Region
- Asia (#15)
- Countries
- Kyrgyzstan, China
- Coordinates
- 42.0400°, 80.1300°
Of the 641 named summits indexed in YearMaps, Pik Pobeda ranks #15 by elevation, below Nowshak (7,492 m) and above Gyala Peri (7,294 m).
- Ranges:
- Tian Shan (Asia), Borohoro Mountains (Asia)
- Neighbouring summits:
- Pik Karakol (5,216 m)
More about Pik Pobeda
Geology
Jengish Chokusu consists of low-grade black schists, volcanoclastic metasandstones, marbles, and metabasites overlain by high-grade metamorphic charnockites. The overlying charnockite have been overthrust northward over the metasedimentary rocks along a major thrust fault that is called the Pobeda thrust. The charnockites underlie the highest part and southern slopes of the Pobeda Massif and Jengish Chokusu. The northern slopes of the Pobeda Massif and Jengish Chokusu are undelain by the low-grade metasedimentary rocks. These rocks are part of a kilometers-thick stack of thrust sheets, known as nappes, consisting of fault-bound sheets of metamorphosed Devonian to Carboniferous sedimentary strata.
The charnockites consists of clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and olivine.
History
Although Jengish Chokusu is over 400 metres higher, Khan Tengri was believed to be the highest peak in the range until Jengish Chokusu's survey in 1943.
A Soviet expedition mounted in 1938 to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth movement Komsomol claimed to have climbed the highest peak in the area, the summit being reached on 19 September by L. Gutman, E. Ivanov and A. Sidorenko. They measured the altitude as 6,900 metres, and named the peak Pik 20-ti letiya Komsomola (Peak of the 20th Anniversary of Komsomol).
A survey by another team in 1943 found the peak to be 7,439 metres high. The peak was renamed as Pik Pobedy (Victory's Peak) in 1946 to commemorate the Soviet victory in World War II.
Description
Jengish Chokusu is a massif, with several summits along its lengthy ridge. Only its main summit breaks 7,000 metres (22,966 ft). It is 16 km (9.9 mi) southwest of Khan Tengri (7,010 m/23,000 ft), from which it is separated by the South Engilchek Glacier, where base camps for both mountains are usually located.
The massif runs at right angles to the glaciers which flow from it into three alpine valleys in Kyrgyzstan on the north, all eventually running to the Engilchek Glacier, the largest in the Tian Shan. Its main summit is usually approached from the Zvozdochka (Russian for "little star") glacier, which is coloured red with rocks from Jengish Chokusu.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Jengish Chokusu (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Pik Pobeda: Key Facts
| Topographic prominence | 4,148 m |
|---|---|
| Mountain range | Kakshaal Too |
Facts from Wikidata Q332762 (CC0).
