Khan Tengri

Khan Tengri in 2014

Khan Tengri, named after the Sky God Tengri of the Turkic peoples ancient Tengrism pagan religion, is a 7,010 metres (23,000 ft) mountain in the Tian Shan range in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Khan Tengri is the highest mountain in Kazakhstan. The first people to reach the top were Mikhail Pogrebetsky and his team, in 1931.

References

  1. ↑ "Khan Tengri". Peakware.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "Khan Tengri". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  3. ↑ Botchkov, Dimitri (2000). "Mountaineering in the Tien Shan: An Historical Survey" (PDF). The Alpine Journal. p. 28. Retrieved 13 April 2021.