Spantik

The south-east ridge (left ) is the normal route

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Spantik ( Urdu سپانٹک, also Golden Peak ) is a 7027 meter high mountain in the Karakoram in northern Pakistan. It is the highest mountain in the western and at the same time Spantik - Sosbun Mountains.

Location

In the south of Spantik on Polan La, a 5840 -meter-high saddle, with the Malubiting is connected ( in the Rakaposhi - Haramosh - Bergen). Between the two mountains lies the accumulation zone of the Chogo - Lungma glacier that flows from there to the east and the Spantik - Sosbun Mountains separates the north from the eastern Rakaposhi - Haramosh Mountains in the south. Both mountain ranges include the Little Karakorum. North of the Spantik are beyond the Hispar glacier mountains of Hispar Muztagh, the Karakoram to the main chain ( Big Karakorum ) count.

Name

Although the Spantik is the Hunza Valley closer to its official name comes from the Balti language. It is composed of Spang ( grass) and Tik (square) and initially referred to a leafy hillside at the south-east ridge of the mountain, later the name of the whole mountain was used. On Burushaski, the language of Hunzukuc, the name Ghenish Chhish - Golden peak ( Golden peak).

Climbing history

In 1906 Fanny Bullock Workman tried the Americans and her husband William Hunter Workman climbing the mountain they called Pyramid Peak, but lacked 300 meters to reach the summit. Only in 1955, the Germans Reiner Diepen, Eduard Reinhardt and Jochen Tietze from the ascent from Chogolungma Glacier on the southeast side. 1987 traveled a small English expedition to the north wall of the Spantiks to the 2200 m high Golden Pillar ( golden pillar) to climb. Antony Victor Saunders and Michael Fowler reached the summit after six days of growth in alpine style. This first ascent was only the fifth ascent of the mountain at all. Meanwhile, the mountain is valid on the normal route as one of the lightest seven thousand, and climbing it is offered by commercial expeditions.