Muztagh Ata
Muztagata
The Muztagata is at an altitude of 7509 m, the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains in the People's Republic of China.
Name
The name " Muztagata " (also Muztagh Ata, Mouztagh -ata or Muz Tagh Ata) is Uighur origin and means as much as " Father of Ice ". The Uighur spelling is Muz Tagh Ata مۇز تاغ ئاتا, the Chinese name is慕士塔格 峰Mùshìtǎgé Feng.
Geography
The Muztagata dominated by Kongur ( 7649 m) over the area of the Taklamakan Desert. The mountain is located in the western part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People 's Republic of China. There he lies to the east of the Pamir Mountains some southwest of Kashgar and just east of Sino- Tajik border, looming behind the other under the famous Pamir mountain peak Pik Somoni Ismoil and Lenin.
Mountaineering
General
Mountaineers classify the Muztagata as technically quite simple, but due to the amount conditionally very demanding one. He is one of the most popular expedition mountains worldwide. His well-proportioned edges make it ideal for a commission on touring skis or snowshoes.
First ascent
1956 to have been first climbed the Muztagata of a Russian-Chinese roped (including Vitaly Mikhailovich Abalakow, Qu Yinhua ).
Quote
On his first expedition from 1893 to 1897 succeeded Sven Hedin in 1894 not to climb the Muztagata. But from his high camp in 6300 m height, he had a unique view of the 7509 m high Muztagata:
" The sun went down, and her purple glow went out on the western slopes of Muztagata. When the full moon over the battlements of the rock wall climb on the south side of the glacier, I stepped out into the night to admire one of the greatest spectacles I've ever seen in Asia. The eternal snow fields on the highest crest of the mountain, the firn basin that feeds the glacier, and its highest regions bathed in the silver light of the moon, but where the ice stream lay in his deep gully, there was night black unfathomable shadows moved across the vaulted snowfields white skinny clouds, and it was believed to see the spirits of the mountain, who performed their dances outdoors. I stood as high as the summit of Chimborazo or Mount McKinley and higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc and all the peaks of three continents; only the highest peak in Asia and the Andes were higher. Up to the top of the highest mountain on earth, Mount Everest, 2,600 meters were still missing. But I still think that the image that unrolled before me, to wild, fantastic beauty surpassed all what a mortal can see on earth. "
Speed record
On 23 August 2005 noted that two young Munich Extremskibergsteiger Benedikt Böhm and Sebastian Haag a record in the ascent of Muztagata and ski back down. As a member of an expedition that was led by the internationally renowned mountaineer height Matthias Robl, they started their climb from base camp to attempt 4450 m by 4 clock in the morning. The originally scheduled Spaniard Javier Martín de Villa was unable to attend the tour due to illness. At temperatures up to minus 35 ° C, the athletes reached the summit already at 13:25 clock. After subsequent departure they were already at 14:41 clock back at base camp.
On 10 August 2007 Matthias Robl improved the record to 9:37 hours.
A further improvement of the record succeeded Markus Amon on August 12, 2009. He started at 4 clock in the morning from the base camp. Past the high camps he reached already at 12:50 clock after a solo speed ascent to the summit. The rise time was 8 hours and 50 minutes. The following descent and the descent arrive in the best conditions back to the base camp. A week earlier, on August 5, 2009, he was out of the camp 1 at 5 hours to reach ( 5520 m) the summit and then also go to the base camp.