Pik BAM

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The Pik BAM (Russian Пик БАМ ) near Tschara in Siberian Kodargebirge in the Asian part of Russia is 3072.6 m, the highest mountain of belonging to the South Siberian mountains high mountain system Stanowoihochland.

Geographical location

The Pik BAM is located on the border of the Republic of Buryatia in the south to the Irkutsk Oblast in the north and is located in the southwest of Kodargebirges. Its summit rises about 42 km west-southwest of the located in the sparsely populated Upper Tscharasenke and from the river Chara Chara passed the village, the administrative center of the Buryat Rajon Kalarski; 10 km (each crow flies) south of it lies in the same river valley with the railway line at the Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM ) lying Novaya Chara ( with dortigem Station ) is the largest city of Kalarski.

Located just west of the partly glaciated Pik BAM arises from the Upper Sakukan and north of the Middle Sakukan that pass through the mountains in the south and northeast, flow eastward and empty into the Chara. A Glacier in the north entfließt the Lednikowaja as a small tributary of the Sygykta.

Name, height, ascent

His name was Pik BAM unofficially because of their leadership through the Upper Tscharasenke Baikal - Amur Mainline; officially he is nameless. Previously the height of 3072.6 m high mountain was usually given with only 2999 ​​m. His first ascent was in 1963 by a group of climbers with Alexander Kuzmin from Chita instead.