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	Glacier National Park Vacations - National Parks Vacations - update 20 Sep 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Glacier National Park Vacations - two missing after antarctica fall bbc - there has been no contact with the missing pair fears are growing over the fate of two argentines who fell down a deep crevasse in antarctica on saturday.
		melting glacier put under wraps iol - by vincent fribault gemsstock, switzerland - alarmed by the retreat of its alpine glacier, a swiss ski resort on tuesday wrapped part of the shrinking ice-cap in a giant blanket in a bid to reduce the summer melt.
		The spectacular glaciated landscape is a hikers paradise containing 700 miles of maintained trails that lead deep into one of the largest intact ecosystems in the lower 48 states.
	www.national-parks-vacations.com /details/Glacier (414 words)

	Tajikistan hight
		The junction of the two glaciers: Fedchenko and Bivachny is interesting in its seasonal phenomenon of ephemeris alpine lakes with real polar icebergs floating on the surface.
		The glacier flow at a rated speed of 216 m a year and is 700m-1000m thick in its the middle part.
		Glacier is surrounded by the highest peaks of Pamir - "Communism Peak" (7,495 m), "Revolution Peak" (6,940 m) peak, "Garmo Peak" (6,602 m) peak and others.
	travel.nx.uz /tajikistan/hight.html (1088 words)

	Official web site of IRKESHTAM TOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The largest are Lenin Glacier (length 13.5 km., area 55.3 km2) and Bolshaya Saukdara Glacier (the length 20.6 km, area 23.5 km2).
		The Expedition had fulfilled a colossal work and achieved outstanding results having explored regions difficult of access: Zaalayskiy Ridge, Fedchenko Glacier; the altitude of the dominant peak of the Academy of Science Ridge (7495 m a.s.l.) had been determined (the peak was named as “Stalin Peak” to be later renamed as “Communism Peak”).
		Four interim camps usually made on the way to the summit: the first camp on the moraine of the glacier at the altitude of 4200 m; the second at the altitude of 5200 m; the third at 6100 m.
	www.irkeshtamtour.com /lenin.htm (1250 words)

	" Mountains of the World: Water Towers for the 21st Century - II" -Mtn-Forum On-Line Library Document
		Glacial meltwater, which has traditionally been used for irrigation, is now a life-line for major Andean cities such as La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.
		Whereas Mexican glaciers (11.4 km 2), African glaciers (10.9 km 2), and Indonesian glaciers (6.9 km 2) are limited in their extent, the glaciers in the tropical and subtropical Andes cover 2676 km 2, almost equaling the extent of the glaciers in the Alps (2910 km 2).
		All the measured glaciers in Peru have lost substantial masses of ice in recent years: the length of the Broggi Glacier, which measured 1.6 km in 1948, decreased by 654 m between 1948 and 1991.
	www.mtnforum.org /resources/library/magen98a2.htm (5645 words)

	In the land of Snow - Clad Peaks
		The altitudinal location of the glaciers is not similar and depends both on the climatic conditions and the glacier dimensions.
		The averaged altitudes of the glacier lower boundaries are increased from west to east which is connected with the decrease of moisture content in the same direction.
		The glaciers in the Kafirnihan basin slide the lowest of all (3,650 m), in the Karakul lake basin (4,860 m) their border is the highest.
	www.ismaili.net /mirrors/pamir_001/page8/tajik.html (19868 words)

	Fedchenko Glacier -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The world's largest glacier found outside the polar regions, it is about 45 miles (70 km) long and covers up to some 350 square miles (900 square km).
		The mountain consists of an enormous mass with three summits covered with snow and ice, and it is the source of the Fedchenko Glacier, which rises on its northwestern face.
		The Fedchenko Glacier dominates the central Pamir massif, with other glaciers, similarly named for 19th-century Russian scientists (e.g., Garmo and Grumm-Grzhimaylo), feeding into it.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9033891 (818 words)

	>Communism - E. Korjenevskoy peaks region
		From the Moskvina base camp, follow the path along the torrent that descends from the glacier on the southern side of the mountain, and then continue to the right and cross the Moskvina glacier.
		Proceed along the glacier slope that descends on the southern side of the mountain.
		You then go up the glacier along a slope that is not very steep; at the beginning of the season the glacier is covered with snow, but at the end deep crevasses open up.
	mountains.tos.ru /commun.htm (2057 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Mountains/Asia
		On Peak Communism, the rock is poor and the approach is difficult, but because it is the highest of all peaks in the region, climbers have been active on the mountain for decades, and a variety of routes exist to the summit.
		From Lenin Glacier (4200m) along rocky spur to around 5200m, from where a traverse on the snow ramp to NE ridge, which is gained at around 5800m.
		Glaciers, wide rock and ice faces and razor-sharp arétes are characteristic for the area.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/asia.htm (9289 words)

	Peakware - Pik Marshal Zhukov
		Best way to get there is by way of Daraut Kurgan village in Kyzyl Suu valley, south Kyrghyzstan and from here follow the Atyn Darja river up to its origin at the termination of the stupendous Fedchenko glacier, about 40 km on donkey tracks.
		Here turn Eastwards into the gorge of the Sauksol river and up the Bolshoi Saukdara glacier, until where the Maly Saukdara glacier flows into it from the North, about 60 km.
		An alternative would be to climb onto the pass coming from the East with base camp at the head of Bolshoi Saukdara glacier, probably a little easier but even more avalanche danger.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/peaks/addapeak2095.htm (313 words)

	Tajikistan adventure holiday. World's best responsible & ecotourism holidays
		Heading down through the modern capital Dushanbe, and through dramatic mountain scenery, the route up the Vranj River valley takes us to the Fedchenko Glacier, where there will be an opportunity for a short day trek on the glacier with its unforgettable views of Peak Communism, dominating the range at 7500 metres.
		Once at the caravanserai of Ishkashim and its nearby ruby mines, we are at the mouth of the Wakhan Corridor, and it is a short distance to where the trek begins.
		Day trek with crampons onto Fedchenko Glacier, where there are outstanding views of Peak Communism, the giant of the Pamirs, which towers over the range at 7,495m.
	www.responsibletravel.com /Trip/Trip900187.htm (1529 words)

	Risk Online: The Pamirs
		The Pamir ridges run predominantly West-East and include: the Trans-Alai ridge with pik Lenin (7134m) as its highest summit, Peter the First ridge with Pik Moskva (6785m), Darvaz ridge with Peak Arnavad (6083m), Vanch ridge and Yazgulem ridge with Pik Revolutsii (6974m).
		There are more than 7000 glaciers here, the main ones being the Fedchenko glacier (77 km long), Grumm-Grzhimailo (about 37 km), Garmo (30 km).
		Further camps were opened on Fortambek glacier for tackling Peak Kommunizma and on the Moskvina glacier for Peak Evgenii Korzhenevskoy.
	risk.ru /eng/regions/pamir (354 words)

	Adventure Book & Guide: Rivers of an Unknown Land
		Thus, the numerous rivers of the Altai are assured a healthy and steady supply of water throughout the spring and summer, as the melting snow followed by melting glaciers and summer rain.
		Glaciers feed all the Pamirs' rivers, for instance, Amu-Dar'ya and the rivers of its basin.
		Glaciers and the melting snow feed the rivers.
	www.raft.org /ruol.html (5948 words)

	COUNTRY PROFILE: TAJIKISTAN
		The Fedchenko Glacier, which covers 700 square kilometers, is the largest non-polar glacier in the world.
		The highest precipitation rate, 2,236 millimeters per year, is near the Fedchenko Glacier in eastern Tajikistan.
		The remainder is mountains, valleys, glaciers, and desert.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Tajikistan.html (6601 words)

	Revolution (6974 m) peak region
		Revolution and 26 Bakinskikh Kommissarov Peak Along the upper part of the Fedchenko glacier, which is 5,000-5,200 meters above sea level, there are more than twenty peaks over 6,000 meters high that are a delight for mountain climbers.
		The view of Revolution peak and the range that separates the valley from the Fedchenko glacier is simply superb.
		In the upper part of Fedchenko glacier - the biggest glacier of Pamir 72 km long, peaks Revolution (6974 m) and 26 Bakinskikh Kommisarov (6834 m) peaks are situated, forming in the north side vast snow basin with steep vertical North-Western face of Revolution peak rising up.
	mountains.tos.ru /revolu.htm (657 words)

	Peter Markusse Homepage: Pamir
		We wanted to make a trek on the Fedchenko glacier, a more than 70 km long glacier in Tajikistan, east of Pik Kommunizma.
		We originally planned to go to Fedchenko glacier, so we tried to go to Altyn-Mazar weather station through Daroot-Korgon, across Ters-Agar pass.
		The path descends to the Lenin glacier, which is rather flat there.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/8747/pamir.html (923 words)

	math lessons - Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko
		Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (7 February 1844 - 15 September 1873) was a Russian naturalist and explorer well known for his travels in central Asia.
		He was born at Irkutsk, in Siberia, and after attending the gymnasium of his native town, proceeded to the university of Moscow, for the study more especially of zoology and geology.
		The Fedchenko Glacier in the Pamirs is named after him, as is the asteroid 3195 Fedchenko.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Alexei_Pavlovich_Fedchenko (175 words)

	Tajikistan 2002. Climate change: State and Trends
		Small glaciers (1 sq.km) that comprise 80% of all glaciers and occupy 15% of total ice cover melt intensively.
		The biggest glacier in Tajikistan is the Fedchenko glacier, the length of which is about 70 km, located in the upper stream of the Muksu river, during the 20th century shrank by almost 1 km; its area decreased by 11 sq.km, and it lost about 2 cub.km of ice.
		In the period from 1969 to 1986, Skogatch glacier, which is located in Obihingou basin, lost 98.8 million cub.m, which is 8% of the total mass.
	enrin.grida.no /htmls/tadjik/soe2001/eng/htmls/climate/state.htm (1365 words)

	Welcome to Scientia
		Cont.: Pressure and density fields of glaciers.- On the modern dynamics of glaciers of the Polar Urals.- Indications of intersecular stages on the glaciers of the Kirghiz Alatau.- a.o.
		Cont.: Basic stages of development of glaciation of southern hemisphere in Quaternary epoch.- Glaciation in mountains of Queen Maud Land.- Glaciation evolution at basin of Fedchenko glacier.- a.o.
		Cont.: On the structure of the Antarctic ice cover.- The movement of the Fedchenko Glacier in the firn zone.- Lake ice in the Bunger Hills region in Antarctic.- a.o.
	home.planet.nl /~scientia/Geol1.html (8423 words)

	Search Results for glacier - Encyclopædia Britannica
		With its western extension, Eyjafjalla Glacier, it is 30 miles (48 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide and covers an area of 268 square miles (695 square km).
		The world's largest glacier found outside the polar regions, it is about 45 miles (70 km) long and covers up...
		Antarctic glacier situated on the Hillary Coast of Victoria Land, to the northeast of the Cook Mountains, near McMurdo Sound.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=glacier&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (555 words)

	Aral Sea - Water Resources State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Main reserves of water are accumulated in glaciers and eternal snow that are situated in mountainous part of the republic.
		Ice reserves in glaciers of the republic is 7.5 times more than annual runoff of all rivers.
		Total number of glaciers with length over 1.5 km is 1,085 km, including 7 big glaciers with stretch over 20 km.
	www.grida.no /aral/aralsea/english/water/waters.htm (4074 words)

	Great Game Travel - High Pamir Jeep Tour
		Once known as Bactria, the Pamir region in modern-day Tajikistan, with its ancient caravanserais, Zoroastrian fire-temples, wildly coloured desert canyons and huge glaciers is a remote wilderness with a history of romance and adventure.
		Heading down through the modern capital Dushanbe, and through dramatic mountain scenery, the route up the Vanj River valley takes us to the Fedchenko Glacier, where there will be an opportunity for a short day trek on the glacier, the longest in the world outside the polar region.
		Day 7: Day trek with crampons onto Fedchenko Glacier, where there are outstanding views of Peak Communism, the giant of the Pamirs, which towers over the range at 7,495m.
	www.greatgametravel.co.uk /jeeptours/highandwild.html (1541 words)

	Tajikistan - GEOGRAPHY
		The mountains contain numerous glaciers, the largest of which, the Fedchenko, covers more than 700 square kilometers and is the largest glacier in the world outside the polar regions.
		Tajikistan's rivers reach high-water levels twice a year: in the spring, fed by the rainy season and melting mountain snow, and in the summer, fed by melting glaciers.
		Most of Tajikistan's lakes are of glacial origin and are located in the Pamir region.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/tajikistan/GEOGRAPHY.html (1579 words)

	Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The high mountains of the republic is a CIS biggest area of the present ice formation with total space equal almost to 9.000 square km and occupying up to 8% of the country’s territory.
		The Fedchenko glacier, which takes its origin in the high Pamir mountains and stretches down into valley for as long as 77km is the biggest glacier in the world.
		Mountain glaciers and snowfields not only deposit the gigantic amount of the “live” water but also produce it.
	www.freshwaterforum.org /water-life/water.htm (1278 words)

	Fedchenko Glacier -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The very small glaciers that occupy cirques are also commonly referred to as glacierets, niche glaciers, or...
		The action of the ice sheets gave the state a great variety of soils and divided it in two.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article-9033891 (829 words)

	Varorud.org - Information & Analitics Agency
		Annually about 30 cubic kilometers of pure river waters (38% of a yearly flow of the Amu-Darya river and 26% of a total yearly water amount entering the Aral Sea reservoir) are formed on the territory of Pamir.
		Apart from it 435 cubic kilometers of water are concentrated in Pamir glaciers and soft lakes.
		The work of the conference is divided into three thematic sections: modern state of the Pamirs water resources and influence of changing climate upon them; complex development and management of Pamir water resources; national and international importance of Pamir and its water resources.
	www.varorud.org /english/herald/pulse250603.html (745 words)

	SummitPost.org - Pik Lenin - Allwein, Wien & Schneider route (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		At the point where a small side glacier coming out of a giant couloir of Zhukov South peak joins the main glacier there is a convenient spot for another camp.
		The walk up the long, but rather narrow, Bolshoi Saukhdara glacier is not difficult at all, straightforward, and with gentle and regular angles.
		It is however a real glacier with several crevassed area's which must be avoided.
	www.summitpost.org /show/route_link.pl/route_id/2438/object_id/185 (1346 words)

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		The Pamir is the largest glacier geosystem; the total area of ice cover is 8,041 km2.
		Of the 1,085 registered glaciers of the Pamir, the largest is Fedchenko glacier (71-77 km).
		Lakes of glacial or rockfall origin are the most common.
	www.bayefsky.com /core/tajikistan_hri_core_1_add_128_2004.doc (5057 words)

	Republic of Tajikistan / Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The southern and northern slopes of Turkistan's range differ: southern is almost snowless (8-14kms); northern slope is longer and its snowy line passes at a height of 3500-4000m.
		The glaciers are available only in eastern part of the range.
		There go down several glaciers from the slopes of peak, merging with the glacier Garmo.
	tajikistan.tajnet.com /english/aboutland/geography.htm (851 words)

	UlsterShopper.Net - Northern Irelands On-Line Shopping Resource
		Both experienced mountaineers, and both aged 26, they are feared to have been caught by a severe blizzard that dumped around three feet of snow in the remote Pamirs region, which borders China and Afghanistan in less than two days.
		The two climbers failed to make a rendezvous with a party of mountaineers after the blizzard and despite air and ground searches in the area of the Fedchenko glacier and the 22,800 ft Revolution peak, where they are thought to have been, there has been no sign of them.
		Both are former members of the University of Bristol mountaineering club and had been with a party of six other former members of the club.
	www.ulstershopper.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?ID=43185 (318 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Bristol/Somerset \| Missing climbers hunt called off
		Two helicopter and several land searches failed to find any clues as to the whereabouts of the men, who were both former members of the University of Bristol Mountaineering Club.
		Ian Hatcher's father-in-law Stephen Temple had organised a final search of the Revolution Peak of the Fedchenko Glacier, where they were last seen.
		"The only remaining possibility was that they had gone to the end of the glacier and found water there, but it was a faint hope," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4145868.stm (348 words)

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