Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower in 2004
Highest point
Elevation 7,276 m (23,871 ft) [1]
Ranked 91st
Prominence 1,710 m (5,610 ft) [1]
Listing Ultra
Coordinates 35°49′36″N 76°21′42″E / 35.82667°N 76.36167°E / 35.82667; 76.36167Coordinates: 35°49′36″N 76°21′42″E / 35.82667°N 76.36167°E / 35.82667; 76.36167 [1]
Geography
Muztagh Tower
Location in Pakistan, on the border with China[1]
Muztagh Tower
Location in Pakistan, on the border with China[1]
Location Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
Parent range Karakoram
Climbing
First ascent 6 July 1956 by a British team
Easiest route glacier/snow/ice climb

Muztagh Tower (also: Mustagh Tower; Muztagh: ice tower), is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range in Baltistan on the border of the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.[2] It stands between the basins of the Baltoro and Sarpo Laggo glaciers.

Early prominence

Vittorio Sella's photograph of the Muztagh Tower, which was to inspire the first ascent

The Mustagh Tower was the subject of a photograph taken by Vittorio Sella during the 1909 Italian expedition to K2. Taken from the upper Baltoro, due southeast of the mountain, the twin summits were perfectly aligned and the mountain was seen as a slender tooth, and looked impregnable. In 1941, the photograph was featured in a book on mountaineering with the caption "The Last Citadel".[3]

First and second ascents

Nearly fifty years after Sella's photo was taken, in 1956, his photograph inspired two expeditions to race for the first ascent. Both teams found their routes less steep than Sella's view had suggested.[4] The British expedition, consisting of John Hartog, Joe Brown, Tom Patey and Ian McNaught-Davis, came from the Chagaran Glacier on the west side of the peak and reached the summit via the Northwest Ridge first on July 6,[5][6] five days before the French team (fr:Guido Magnone, fr:Robert Paragot, André Contamine, Paul Keller) climbed the mountain from the east.[7] The doctor François Florence waited for the two parties at the camp IV during 42 hours without a radio, when they went, reached the summit and came back to this camp.[8]

Notable ascents and attempts

A lower summit, 7,180 m (23,560 ft) was first climbed in 1984 by the northeast ridge.

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Prominent Karkoram peaks on peaklist.org; Peakbagger reports 7,273 metres elev. and 1,707 metres prom.
  2. ↑ http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=10518
  3. ↑ Ullman, James Ramsey (1941). High Conquest: The Story of Mountaineering. J. B. Lippincott Co.
  4. ↑ Curran, Jim (1995). K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-340-66007-2.
  5. ↑ Hartog, J.H. (1956). "The climbing of the Muztagh Tower". The Alpine Journal. 61: 253–270.
  6. ↑ Patey, Tom (1971). One Man's Mountains. pp. 135–147. ISBN 0-575-01358-3.
  7. ↑ Magnone, Guido (1957). "The Muztagh Tower". Himalayan Journal. 20: 40–50.
  8. ↑ Jill Neate, High Asia: an illustrated history of the 7,000 metre peaks, The Mountaineers, 1989, ISBN 978-0-898-86238-6, pp. 117-118.
  9. ↑ Duff, Mal (1985). "The Second Ascent of the Mustagh Tower" (PDF). The Alpine Journal. 90: 74–76. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  10. ↑ Greig, Andrew (1985). Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber on the 1984 Mustagh Tower Expedition. Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-162060-0.
  11. ↑ Kropp, Göran; Lagercrantz, David (2000). Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey. Discovery Channel. ISBN 1-56331-936-5.
  12. ↑ Nunn, Paul (1991/92). "Karakoram 1990" (PDF). The Alpine Journal. 96: 241. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ↑ "Interview with Dejan Miškovič (slovene language)". Sport1. 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  14. ↑ "Risk.ru - Музтаг Тауэр 2012. Экспедиция ФАиС г.Москвы. Вершина!!! (russian language)". Risk.ru. 2012-08-25.
  15. ↑ "Short film about ascent (on english)".
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