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	Kongur Tagh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kongur Tagh (Chinese: 公格尔山; pinyin: Gōnggé'ěr Shān) (also referred to as Kongur or Kongur Shan) is the highest peak of the Kunlun Mountains in China.
		It is situated at the Kunlun Mountain's western extremities and close to Muztagh Ata and Lake Karakul in the Pamir Mountains.
		The first ascent of Kongur Tagh was completed in 1981 by a British expedition consisting of Chris Bonington, Al Rouse, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kongur_Tagh (195 words)

	SummitPost - Kongur Tiube -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Also it is one of the very few peaks in the main Kongur chain that can be called an independent peak to the letter, (requiring a drop of at least 400 meter to the nearest higher one).
		Kongur Tiube is clearly not a virgin summit so the charge for repeating the known route should be $ 1.080,-.
		Several large herd of semi wild yak are pastured by the Kyrghyz in the vincinity of the Base camps in Kongur Shan in summer.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/152028/kongur-tiube.html (1452 words)

	Muztagh Ata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Muztagh Ata" has an Uyghur origin, and means "father of ice mountains".
		Muztagata lies just south of Kongur Tagh, the highest peak of the Kunlun Shan.
		Together they form a somewhat isolated group, separated from the main chain of the Kunlun, and also separate from the Pamir Mountains to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mutzagata (345 words)

	SummitPost - Kongur Tagh -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kongur Expedition in August 2003 and project to climb it in 2004
		Unfortunately Kongur Tagh sits in the centre of its own jagged massif and it takes another long day up the small Hamurjajilak glacier and the absurdly crevassed and dangerous head bassin of Jangmanjiar glacier to get to advanced base camp at 5400 meter where the actual climbing, for all western and southwestern routes, starts.
		Kongur Tagh is not a virgin peak any more, thanks to Bonington Rouse, Tasker and Boardman, so for a try to repeat their route your charge will only be 1080,- $.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/151885/kongur-tagh.html (1971 words)

	Kongur Tagh, 7719m.
		Kongur Peak is suggested to be the highest mountain in Kun Lun mountain range.
		It is 7719 meters high and was climbed first by Chris Bonington team in 1982.
		We tried to climb it twice, succeded second time in 2004.
	www.mountainguides.ru /kunlun/kongur (86 words)

	New route on Kongur Peak. Mountain guides, Russia
		Kongur Tagh :: 2004 year succesful climb Kongur Peak
		On August 09 2004 joint Russia-Latvian team climbed new route on mount Kongur (7719m.).
		During the climb we used snow shoes on the flat places, it saves a lot of power.
	www.mountainguides.ru /kunlun/kongur/page82 (161 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Mountains/Asia
		There are several high peaks in the range with very difficult Kongur (7719m) being the highest.
		Technically easy Muztagh Ata (7546m) is by far the most climbed of the high peaks, it propably being the most popular of all 7000m peaks.
		Kongur (7719m) is the main summit of the Kongur-Tagh Massif and Kunlun Shan range.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/asia.htm (9289 words)

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		For a long time we were unsure where Kizil Tagh was, as it was not shown on any of our maps, but we were told we could get a 'machine' from there to Kashgar and it was clear that this was a much quicker and easier route than retracing our steps.
		Transport to Kashgar followed swiftly, the Kizil Tagh 'renegades' were rounded up by the CMA and the whole team installed in the New Kashgar Hotel, complete with most modern facilities, including a bar and excellent Chinese cuisine.
		His map of the Chemi glacier and the great bowl beneath the SE lace of Kongur was thus rather speculative He also found an interesting route from Kaying via At Bel to the Tigarmansu glacier, which is on the north side of the range.
	www.turclubmai.ru /heading/papers/732 (4225 words)

	t52b in fm00
		In northern Tibet, strain heating from the mantle which is being squeezed between the Indian lithosphere to the south and equally cold Tsaidam and Tarim lithospheres to the north and west, causes melting of the upper mantle and consequently, the intruded magma melts the crust there.
		Offset of the Ordovician arc along the Altyn Tagh and Yarkand systems was accommodated by shortening of this belt via south-directed thrusting along the Karakax fault and structures to the south.
		Garnet-biotite thermometry and GRAIL barometry of footwall rocks within the Kongur Shan gneiss dome yield temperatures of 650\deg C to 700\deg C and pressures of 7.5-8.0 kbar, indicating amphibolite facies conditions.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm00&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm00/fm00&maxhits=200&="T52B" (6708 words)

	t12f in fm01
		The western portion of the Altyn Tagh Fault (west of $90\deg$ E) and the western Kunlun Fault define a plate boundary between the Tarim block and Tibet, but the eastern part of Altyn Tagh (east of $90\deg$ E) is only a crustal fault.
		AB: The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a 1200km long left-lateral strike-slip fault bounding the Tarim Basin to the north from the Tibetan Plateau and the Qaidam Basin to the south.
		The northwestern part of the Arka Tagh trends N$85\deg$E, approximately parallel the ATF while the southeastern part trends N$125\deg$E. If the curvature of the range resulted from oroclinal bending, the northwestern part should have recorded $40\deg$ counterclockwise rotation with respect to the southeastern part.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm01&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm01/fm01&maxhits=200&="T12F" (4728 words)

	China in 1997 (17 Pamirs)
		Clearly visible on the mountain face ahead is evidence of the intense geological folding suffered by the asian plate as it was compressed and uplifted by the colliding indian plate moving north.
		The great Kongur Shan rises up to 7719 meters.
		The scenery changes at every turn becoming more dramatic as the road descends into the Tagh Arma basin leading to the Tashkurgan oasis.
	ismaili.net /mirrors/pamir_001/page5/17pamirs_china_97.htm (765 words)

	To the Ends of the Earth Even in the age of satellite phones and global positioning systems
		Xinjiang is almost too far away, a region nearly three times the size of France, ringed by mountains on three sides: the Pamirs, the Kunlun range, the Karakoram.
		Among them are sub-ranges with epic names: the Mountains of Heaven (Tianshan), the Mountains of Gold (Altyn Tagh), the Mountains of Blinding Darkness (Quaranghu Tagh) and one wild stretch of the Pamirs known as the Khafa Gumbaz (Domes of Wrath).
		It is an edge-of-the-world place, where the solid rule of China tatters and frays away into Islam and sand-buried ruins of ancient cities, windy and desolate.
	www2.volstate.edu /kbell/Articles/silk_road.htm (4341 words)

	UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences - An Yin, Professor of Geology
		Concentration of crustal displacement along a weak Altyn Tagh fault: Evidence from paleomagnetism of the northern Tibetan Plateau: Tectonics, v.
		Cowgill, E., Yin, A., Arrowsmith, J.R., Wang, X.F., and Zhang, S., 2004, The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet 1: Smoothing by vertical-axis rotation and the effect of topographic stresses on bend-flanking faults: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
		Cowgill, E., Arrowsmith, J.R., Yin, A., Wang, X.F., and Chen, Z, 2004, The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet 2: Active deformation and the importance of transpression and strain hardening within the Altyn Tagh system: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
	www.ess.ucla.edu /faculty/yin/index.asp (2261 words)

	Xinjiang Ultra-Prominences - peaklist.org
		It is generally felt that these values are accurate to ±20 meters.
		In "Kongur: China's Elusive Summit" Chris Bonington writes that seen from the NE dome "(the main summit) is undoubtedly the highest point on Kongur, though probably by not more than thirty metres or so".
		Despite clear weather and lack of time, Bonington's party climbed both summits because, on reaching the main summit, they found that they could not be sure that the NE summit was lower.
	www.peaklist.org /WWlists/ultras/china2.html (748 words)

	[Fwd: BOUNCE acc-updates@it.ca: Approval required:]
		Base camp is conveniently reached by means of a one day drive from Kashgar along the famed Karakoram highway, and a 3-4 hour walk on the next day.
		We think one day this myth should be finished, In order to achieve this as soon as possible ALPEX mounts an expedition to this highest Kunlun peak again next summer.
		From the many publications in mountaineering magazines one might get the idea that every meter on Kongur is of great technical difficulty.
	www.it.ca /pipermail/acc-updates/2001q1/000079.html (1928 words)

	PUBLICATIONS
		X.H. Chen, A. Yin, G.E. George, E.S. Cowgill, Marty Grove, T.M. Harrison, and X.F. Wang (2003) Two phases of Mesozoic north-south extension in the eastern Altyn Tagh Range, northern Tibetan plateau, Tectonics 22, 1053, 10.1029/2001TC001336.
		E. Cowgill, A. Yin, T. Harrison, and Wang Xiao-Feng (2003) Reconstruction of the Altyn Tagh fault based on U-Pb geochronology: Role of back thrusts, mantle sutures, and heterogeneous crustal strength in forming the Tibetan Plateau: Jour.
		S.J. Mojzsis, T.C. Devaraju, R.C. Newton (2003) Ion microprobe U-Pb age determinations on zircon from the late Archean granulite facies transition zone of southern India: Jour.
	sims.ess.ucla.edu /PUBLICATIONS.html (3706 words)

	Category:Kongur - Wikimedia Commons
		es: Monte Kongur junto al Lago Karakul, en la Autopista del Karakórum en la provincia de Xinjiang (China).
		en: Mt. Kongur in Karakul lake, close to Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang province (China).
		This page was last modified 21:11, 4 November 2005.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Category:Kongur (82 words)

	CascadeClimbers.com - The Pacific Northwest Climbers Resource: CONGRATULATION!!!
		Kingata Tagh is found in the Kingata, Sometimes called Karajira, Shan
		Muztagata, but it is also not a K2 or a Kongur.
		Aklangm is found in the Kongur Shan, the one but Westernmost range of
	www.cascadeclimbers.com /threadz/showthreaded.php?Number=436681 (2794 words)

	Kashgar-Atush
		Kashgar's historical importance has been primarily as a trading centre.
		Situated at the foot of the Pamirs (mountains), where the ranges of the Tengri tagh and the Qara Qorum Mountains join, Kashgar commanded historic caravan routes to the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan (west), to Jammu and Kashmir (south), and to Urumchi and the Ili River valley (north).
		The oasis is very fertile, growing wheat, corn (maize), barley, rice, beans, and a great deal of cotton.
	uyghur.50megs.com /catalog.html (932 words)

	Overlanding Zone :: The Silk Road: Crossing into China
		We stopped early that afternoon at Karakul Lake, a small glacially-fed body of water.
		Situated at about 12,000 feet, it's the highest lake on the Pamir Plateau and located between the Pamir Mountains to the west and just below two nearly 25,000 foot peaks of the Karakoram Range, Mounts Muztagh Ata and Kongur Tagh, to the east.
		Needless to say, the scenery and hike around the lake were spectacular and the night in the tent absolutely frigid.
	www.gapyear.com /overlanding/the_silk_road_crossing_into_china.html (753 words)

	Geological Society of America - Data Repository - 2004
		File size: 4 p., about 35 K bytes.
		Tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir: Constraints from the northern portion of the Cenozoic Kongur Shan extensional system, western China; senior author: Alexander C. Robinson.
		The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet, 2: Active deformation and the importance of transpression and strain hardening with the Altyn Tagh system; senior author: Eric Cowgill.
	www.geosociety.org /pubs/ft2004.htm (4201 words)

	UCC Mountaineering Club
		Please respond now if you would like to join, and send an email to muztagtrek@highalpex.com.
		KONGUR TAGH (7719m) A project for experienced climbers with sufficient technical skills.
		This mountain was originally climbed in 1981 by a team led by Chris Bonnington, has been tried since then, but it still awaits it's second ascent.
	www.ucc.ie /students/socs/climbers/songs/misc/commentpage1.html (11039 words)

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