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Trans-Alay Range, Pamir Mountains, on the border between Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan · Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan
Peak Lenin (Ibn Sina Peak)
Peak Lenin, known in Tajikistan as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak, is one of the great giants of the Pamir-Alay and, at 7,134 m, one of only a handful of Central Asian peaks exceeding 7,000 m. It sits on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border in the Trans-Alay Range and is widely regarded as the most-climbed 7,000 m peak on Earth, drawing hundreds of mountaineers annually to its comparatively non-technical northern routes. First climbed in 1928 by a German-Austrian team, it has since accumulated both celebrated records — including the first female ascent of a 7,000 m peak in 1958 and Anatoli Boukreev's first solo ascent in 1987 — and grim tragedies, most notably a 1990 earthquake-triggered avalanche at Camp 2 that killed 43 climbers, one of the deadliest single disasters in mountaineering history. Its name has shifted repeatedly with regional politics, from Mount Kaufmann under the Russian Empire, to Lenin Peak through the Soviet era, to Ibn Sina Peak on the Tajik side since 2006, while Kyrgyzstan continues to use Lenin Chokusu.
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