Ascent Passport

I. Ascent class — technically challenging

First ascent, approximately 5-4 difficulty category.

2. Ascent region — Central Pamir, Northern spur of the Vanchsky Ridge.
3. Ascent route indicating peaks and their elevations:

Unnamed peak — 5231 m (conditionally named p. Khrustalny) via the western ridge.

4. Ascent characteristics: elevation gain — 1731 m, average steepness — 50°, length of complex sections:

• ridge before the gendarme wall — 300 m,
• wall of the trapezoidal gendarme — 200 m,
• three-tier ascent before the summit ridge — 260 m.

5. Number of pitons hammered: rock — 59 pcs.

• ice — 3 pcs.

6. Number of walking hours: — 29 h.
7. Number and characteristics of bivouacs — 2 bivouacs:

• I — bivouac — on the ridge after the tower wall, near a stream. Platform was laid out with stones.
• 2 — bivouac — on the ridge before the summit in a rock depression. Platform was laid out with stones. Water was melted from snow.

8. Team name — sports group of Gorkovsky Oblsovet DSO "Zenit"
9. Surname, name, patronymic of the leader, participants, and their qualifications:

Leader — Vavilov Alexander Ivanovich, 1st sports category. Participants — Zhelandovsky Lev Evgenievich, 1st sports category

• Mironchev Mikhail Sergeevich, 1st sports category
• Pabrukov Viktor Ivanovich, 1st sports category

10. Team coach — senior instructor, Master of Sports Sidorov Arnold Alexandrovich. II. Dates of departure and return:

departure — August 22, 1976, return — August 26, 1976