Erciyes

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Hasandag

This is a volcano with a crater, causing an altitude difference over 2000 m. from the plane below. It has a distinct shape and can be seen from far distances.

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Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is a snow-capped volcanic cone, located in extreme northeast Turkey, ten miles west of Iran, and 20 miles south of Armenia. A smaller cone, Little Ararat (12,877 ft.) rises just southeast of the main peak.

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Suphan Dagi

Suphan Dagi, an extinct volcano, is the second highest mountain in Turkey, second only to Mount Ararat (16,945 ft.). Suphan Dagi is located just north of Lake Van, Turkey's largest lake. The volcano's summit holds a snow-filled crater, but is generally broad and rugged from eons of erosion.

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Demirkazik

One of the best moderate climbs in the region, it is also the most popular. Constituting the highest peak of the range, Demirkazik at once dominates and attracts like no other peak.

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Koyo Zom

Koyo Zom is a long narrow mountain with steep icy slopes. It is the highest mountain in the Hindu Raj, a small but majestic range formed of a southward breaking ridge of the Hindu Kush.

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Noshaq

Noshaq is the highest mountain in Afghanistan, and the second highest mountain in the Hindu Kush. It rises just north of the Pakistan border, and just north of the the highest mountain in the range, Tirich Mir (25,282 ft.). Noshaq's summit crest supports several high peaks.

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Saraghrar

Saraghrar is the fourth highest independent peak in the Hindu Kush. The entire Saraghrar massif is a huge, irregular stretched plateau at elevation around 7,000 m (22,966 ft), lying above vertical granite and ice faces, which protect it all around. Its distinct summits are poorly identified, and information gathered from expeditions that have visited the area is often misleading.

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Shachaur

Although the first ascent was made from Pakistan, the mountain, which has an impressive mixed North side with a prominent central pillar, became a popular climb from the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan during the next decade and up to the Soviet invasion of 1979. Since then and in common with many border peaks(Afghanistan-Pakistan) it has received very little attention, though in recent years...

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Tirich Mir

Tirich Mir is the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush. It is a cluster of rocky, ice-covered pyramids, located due south of the second highest peak, Noshaq. Tirich Mir is south of the range's main crest, and projects entirely into Pakistan, whereas much of the Hindu Kush marks the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

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Batura

The Batura Muztagh rises to the west of the Hunza Valley, forming the westernmost extension of the Karakoram Range. The highest peaks form a formidable massif called the Batura Wall, toward the western end of the range. East of the Wall several other massifs rise, notably Pasu Massiv, Shispare, and Bojohagur Duanasir/Ultar.

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Batura II

Batura II, a/k/a Peak 31, also sometimes called Hunza Kunji, is a distinct peak within the "Batura Muztagh" or group or massif, and is believed to be unclimbed as of mid-2006, despite several attempts. It should not be confused with other peaks of the Batura Group, such as Batura I (East)(7795 metres, sometimes quoted as 7785 metres), nor with Batura I (West)(7794 metres, also quoted sometimes as...

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Bei Tip

Bei Tip (7912 metres, or 25,958 feet) is usually listed as a peak in the Masherbrum Group, and also usually as a subsidiary peak in that group, even though Bei Tip is higher than Masherbrum (7821 metres, or 25,659 feet) itself. Bei Tip is often not listed at all, at any height, by some authorities, but is consistently listed at 7912 metres whenever it is listed.

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Broad Peak

Broad Peak is located approximately five miles from K2 along the Baltoro glacier. En route to base camp for Broad Peak, the twelfth highest mountain in the world, climbers and trekkers alike can visit the Gasherbrums, the Trangos, K2, and Chogolisa. On a good day, both Chogolisa and K2 can be seen from the upper reaches as well as from base camp of this extraordinary mountain.

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Chogolisa

Chogolisa is a high snow peak with a distinctive long, almost level summit ridge, located about 15km southwest of the Gasherbrum group, near the head of the Baltoro Glacier. The Southwest summit is higher; the slightly lower Northeast summit (7554m) was named Bride Peak by Martin Conway in 1892, and was climbed in 1958 by the Japanese team of M. Fujihara and K.

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Distaghil Sar

Distaghil Sar is the third highest mountain in the Karakoram. It is located in a remote icy wilderness in the northern reaches of Pakistan. Its high glacier-clad summit ridge is topped with three sharp peaks.

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Gasherbrum

Gasherbrum is a remote group of high peaks in the Karakoram, located at the northeast end of the 36-mile Baltoro glacier. The group forms a semi-circle around its own South Gasherbrum Glacier. The peaks are sharp rock pyramids with rugged ridges and steep, towering walls.

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Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II is the third highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, and the thirteenth highest peak in the world. It is generally considered one of the easiest 8000 meter peaks, though like any mountain of its stature, an ascent is not to be taken lightly.

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Gasherbrum IV

Gasherbrum IV [G IV] is sometimes referred to as the most beautiful peak in the Karakoram. (For more information on the Karakoram generally, see Peakware's entry for "Gasherbrum". The balance of this entry for G IV has been written by its peak guardian.

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Haramosh

The Haramosh is a big glacier wall see from NW.South side is opposite, a scar-face wall,this mountain support an elevate numbers of avalanches at day,located at the west end of karakorum range.

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K2

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, and is thought by many climbers to be the ultimate climb. Its giant pyramid peak towers in isolation, 12,000 feet above the wide Concordia glacial field at the head of the Baltoro Glacier. The sheer icy summit is flanked by six equally steep ridges.

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Khiangyang Kish

The second highest Peak in the Hispar Muztagh, after Distaghil Sar I (7885 metres or 25,869 feet), Khiangyang Kish (also called Khunyang Chhish, Khinyang Kish, and various alternate spellings, hereinafter all referred to as "K.K."), is already well-described in the Peakware Encyclopedia entry, but mention should also be made of the fact that this stupendous Peak is part of a Group or Massif,...

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Masherbrum

Masherbrum is a spectacular rock and ice peak, rising to the south of the Baltoro Glacier. The summit's sheer north face is a perfect pyramid, with steep narrow ridges rising suddenly to a sharp pinnacle.

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Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower, as the name implies, is an enormous rock tower, its four sides stretching steeply into the sky. This is perhaps the most difficult technical climb in the Karakoram. It is located between the basins of the Baltoro and Sarpo Laggo glaciers, and for many years was considered inaccessible.

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Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi is the name of a high Karakoram mountain massif and the huge pyramid peak which tops this massif. The mountain dominates the Hunza Valley west of K2, its steep ice-covered peak towering above barren cliffs and terraces. Rakaposhi's climate is generally more favorable than that of the Himalayas, as it is located far enough west to be only minimally affected by the monsoon in July and...

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Saltoro Kangri

Saltoro Kangri, whose name means Yellow Mountain, is a rugged mountain of rock, ice, and snow. Its long crescent ridge supports numerous glaciers and numerous 7,000-meter peaks.

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Sasir Kangri

Sasir Kangri is a great mountain massif with four high peaks rising from a glacier-clad north-south summit ridge. It is the highest mountain in the final southeastern stretch of the Karakoram, rising just fifty miles north of the city of Leh. At the time of its first successful ascent in 1973, it was the highest unclimbed peak in India, despite numerous attempts since it was first approached in...

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Sherpi Kangri

Sherpi Kangri is a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range. It lies in the south of Ghent Kangri (7,380 m). In its southeast is Saltoro Kangri (7,742 m).

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Sia Kangri

Sia Kangri is a huge snowy mountain with many high peaks rising from its curved summit ridge. It rises at the junction of China, India, and Pakistan, though in this region the border between the latter two countries is in dispute. The mountain is well glaciated, its snowy crest rising above a vast, barren landscape of deep, rocky canyons.

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Singhi Kangri

Highest peak of the Siachen glacier area, the largest glacier outside (sub)polar areas. Singhi Kangri means difficult peak. In this area the government of India permits only 1 expedition per year.

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Skyang Kangri

Skyang Kangri is situated on the China Pakistan border just North east of K2, and is from its north very difficult to reach, involving two days of driving and 6 days of walking in, the last day over the gruelling Dong Qogir glacier. From the South it is somewhat easier to reach by just following the glacier Northwards from Concordia, the normal Base camp site for ascending K2 on the Abruzzi...

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The Ogre

The Ogre is a steep craggy mountain whose east face is a sheer rock wall. British climbers Doug Scott and Chris Bonington were the first to reach the Ogre's summit, after which both climbers suffered injuries on the descent, including Scott's two broken legs. Despite their predicament, they managed to descend to the lower camps, where they endured a long wait for assistance.

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Kholodnaja Stena

Kholodnaja Stena (Limewall) was discovered and measured from Richard Finsterwalder, but not climbed during the German-Russian Alai-Pamir-Expedition in 1928.

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Myra I

Peak Myra is found to the Southeast of Peak Lenin basecamp and has some popularity as an acclimatisation climb, - although far less as the more easy and accesible Peak Petrowski -. Usually two days are taken for climbing it, but good climbers can do it in one from base camp and back there

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Myra Ii

The Sister peak of Myra I and in its direct vincinity, both peaks can be climbed in one, two day venture, following the connecting ridge. No special difficulties, but lots of loose rock and gravel

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Peak 19th Party Conference

Peak 19th Party Conference is prominently visible from Peak Lenins upper base camp at Onion field, and it is easy to reach the foot of the climb from here by way of the undifficult inner Lenin glacier. The Abalakow route, following the esthetically beautifull S-shaped ridge of the same name is technically not very demanding, but long. The North face route however is another "pair of shoes":...

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Pik Imeni Ismail Samani

Pik Imeni Ismail Samani, formerly Pik Kommunizma (Communism Peak), is the highest peak in the Pamirs, and the highest in the former Soviet Union. It is a huge craggy mountain, heavily glaciated despite its rising above a dry, barren region. The rock is poor and the approach is difficult, but because it is the highest of all peaks in the region, climbers have been active on the mountain for...

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Pik Karl Marx

On September 6th 1946, 7 members of the expedition reached the peak under the leadership of Beletski around 1.30pm at bad weather over the western ridge.

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Pik Lenin

Pik Lenin, originally called Mount Kaufmann, is the second highest mountain of the Pamirs, and second highest in the former Soviet Union. Its north face sweeps magnificently above the Alay Valley, though its southern slopes are rounded and unimpressive, with an easy gradual slope. Lenin was the first 7,000 meter peak to be discovered in the Soviet Union, and was thought to be the highest until...

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Pik Marshal Zhukov

A peak with a history: When the fresh, communist, government of China decided in 1950 that their country should enter the realms of mountaineering it was logical that they turned to their big Northern friend the Soviet Union to train their first ever batch of alpinists. Ascending Marshal Zhukov peak was part of the celebration of the Chinese having passed their exam. In order to mark the good...

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Pik Revolution

The first attempt to climb this mountain was already made 1928 in the context of the German-Russian Alai-Pamir-Expedition. But Karl Wien and Eugen Allwein failed below the peak because of too much snow and danger of avalanches.

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Gompe Utse

The most sacred mountain in the region around Lhasa (3658m), the capital of Tibet, rising directly north of the Drebung-monastery (3790m), 6 km west of Lhasa. Before His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso left Tibet in 1959 it was a traditional ceremony, that every year the Dalai Lama, riding a horse, went up to the summit in a grand procession of pilgrims to make a sacrificial offering...

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Gurla Mandhata

Gurla Mandhata is the highest peak in the remote Gurla range, located in western Tibet, 100km south of sacred mountain Kailash. The landscape around this peak includes nomad inhabited high plains, huge turquoise lakes, and the neighboring Kailash range to the north. Gurla Mandhata offers extremely wide variety of terrain, ranging from gradual walk-ups along the NE-ridge to difficult mixed routes...

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Kailas

Kailas is the center of the Buddhist universe, and the mountain, as well as two lakes over which it rises, have been sacred to Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, and Bonpos for thousands of years. Climbing the peak has never been permitted. However, religious pilgrims of all ages regularly practice parikarma, a sacred circuit of the mountain.

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Kongur

Kongur is the highest mountain in the Kunlun Shan. Despite its great height, Kongur remained undiscovered until 1900, due to its remoteness and its position behind other high peaks. After its discovery, another 56 years passed before it was first attempted, and another 25 years passed before the summit was finally attained.

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Muztagh Ata

Muztagh Ata is the second highest peak in the Kunlun Shan. The highest is Kongur, Muztagh Ata's immediate neighbor to the northeast. Both peaks tower by the side of the Karakoram Highway, the main road running from the city of Kashi to Pakistan.

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Ulugh Muztagh

Ulugh Muztagh is a high snow peak in the central Kunlun Shan, near the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. It is often incorrectly cited as the highest peak in the Kunlun Shan, due to a survey from the 1890's which gave it a height of 7720 meters. The current value for the height is from a careful modern survey done by the Sino-American first ascent expedition in 1985, and should be accurate to...

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Yuzhu Feng

Yuzhu Feng is located about 10km E from the Kun Lun pass and 160km from Golmud. With the hight of 20269ft/6178m it is the highes peak in this region; the eastern part of the long Kun Lun range. There are many+ 5000m/+16500ft peaks around it.

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Kang Karpo

Kang Karpo, in the east of Deqen county is the highest peak of the Henduan Shan, east of the Himalaya and East of the tallest mountain in Myanmar: Hkakabo Razi(5881m). The peak is protected by perpendicular cliffs and a foul climate. Kang Karpo is the only mountain over 22.

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Yushan

Yü Shan is the highest mountain in Taiwan. It rises near the center of the island, part of the Central Range. It is located in the Yü Shan National Park, which is popular with tourists.

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Emei Shan

Emei Shan is a sacred mountain to Buddhists. A steep flat-topped mountain, it is perhaps the most impressive of the sacred Chinese mountains, particularly when viewed from the east, where it rises suddenly from the plains. The mountain is often enshrouded by mist, which serves to heighten its spiritual presence.

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Gongga Shan

Emerging at the last of the isolated ranges of the tibet area,the Daxue Shan range its a small group of mountains 6ooo meters top, at finish near the tibet-way high pass Tsuing nan Gongga Shan rises at 7596 meters, as a ice sharp peak over the jungle have an extraplomed northwest that must suposed and several climb

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Minya Konka

Minya Konka (Gongga Shan) is a high snowy peak with narrow ridges, located in the far eastern end of a vast network of north-south ranges that runs through Central China. The mountain dominates the region in height, as few other peaks surpass 5000 meters. It is visible from Chengdu, Sichuan's capital city, 150 miles northwest of the mountain.

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Namche Barwa

Namche Barwa is a giant ice pyramid, standing in isolation above the remote forested mountains that surround it. It is the extreme easternmost mountain of the Himalaya, located north of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, nearly 250 miles northeast of Bhutan. Namche Barwa's steep summit climbs thousands of feet from the gorges of the Tsangpo River, which curls round the base of the mountain on...

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Chomolhari

Chomolhari is a great towering mountain, whose name is Tibetan for Mountain of the Goddess. The mountain is sacred to Tibetan Buddhists, and every year pilgrims assemble in the town of Phari Dsong, ten miles distant, and walk in procession to the mountain. The mountain rises from the main Himalayan crest, on the border between Tibet and Bhutan.

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Gangkar Punsum

Gangkar Punsum, according to traditional sourcres, is 7541 metres, and Kula Kangri is 7554 metres, with both peaks ususally deemed within Bhutan. More recent evidence, i.e., a modern Chinese survey, using topographical dividing lines, as reported by a Japanese source, shows that Kula Kangri is wholly within Tibet(China), and is 7538 metres, whereas Gangkar Punsum is in Bhutan, and is higher, i.

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Kula Kangri

Kula Kangri has been widely reported to be the highest mountain in Bhutan, located in a remote area of Northern Bhutan, near the Chinese border. However, recent Chinese sources, with confirmation by Japanese sources, place Kula