Ak Sai (Ala Archa National Park)
Description To the south of Bishkek lies the Kyrgyz Ala Too. (Too, or Tau, means range I Kyrgyz.) with the highest summit Simyonov Tien Shan (4875m). There are several good…
Read more »Enylchek Glacier/Peaks Khan Tengri and Pobeda
Description The Enylchek (sometimes Inycheck) glacier is one of the world’s largest glaciers with its south fork extending 62km. The north fork lies in Kazakhstan leads to the base camps…
Read more »Kokshall Too range
Description The Kokshall Too “Forbidden Range”, is located on Kyrgyzstan’s Chinese border. It was a closed military region until the late 1990s when the first western expeditions visited the region….
Read more »Peak Achiktash 7134m (formerly Lenin)
Description Along the shared borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and China lie the Pamir-Alai mountain range. While this area does not offer much in the way of technical routes, it does…
Read more »Karavshin
Description In the tangled borders of southern Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan lies a field of soaring granite towers in the Karavshin Valley. The Soviet climber Vitaly Abalakov visited the area in…
Read more »Karakol
Official Ski Center Name: Mountain ski base Karakol Ski Resort’s Altitude: 2300 meters above sea level Ski area’s proximity to urban areas: 7 km from Karakol and 400 km from…
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