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Route Description: ЮЗ склону
The first winter ascent of Khan-Tengri peak via the South-West slope, made by a team of International Master of Sports grade climbers led by V. Suviga in February 1992.
Passport
- Class — winter ascents
- Central Tien Shan, Tengri Tag ridge
- Peak Khan-Tengri via the southwest slope
- Proposed 6A first ascent in winter conditions
- Elevation gain: 2800 m (from the confluence of the Semenovsky and South Inylchek glaciers) Average steepness of the main part of the route — 45° (from the saddle between peaks Chapayev and Khan-Tengri to the summit of Khan-Tengri 5800–6995 m)
- Pitons used: rock — 6 pcs., ice — 4 pcs. Previously used pitons not removed — 12 pcs.
- Team's total climbing hours: 28 hours and 4 days
Route Description: ЮЗ склону
Ascent description to the summit of Khan-Tengri via the South-West slope, category 5B difficulty level in 1990.
I. Altitude class 2. Tian Shan, Tengri Tagh ridge 3. Khan Tengri peak via the Southwest slope 4. Route difficulty category — 5B 5. Elevation gain: 2695 m, length 3830 m Length of sections with 5th category difficulty — 340 m. Average steepness of the route — 42°. 6. Pitons driven: rock 9+9*, chocks 16, ice screws 8+4*
- use of previously driven pitons
- Team's travel time: 13.5 hours, days — 2
Route Description: ЮЗ склону
Description of the team’s ascent to Khan-Tengri Peak via the Pogrebetsky route (southwestern slope) with a complexity category of 5B.
Passport
- High-altitude class
- Central Tian-Shan, South Inylchek Glacier
- Peak Khan-Tengri via the southwest slope (Pogrebetsky route)
- Category 5B difficulty
- Elevation gain — 1095 m, length — 1700 m (main part of the route). Total elevation gain — 2595 m. Length of category 5 sections — 590 m. Average steepness of the main part of the route 45°, category 5 sections — 55°–60° (6700–6850 m). Pitons used: Rock — 52, bolt — 0, chocks — 16, ice — 5.
- Team's travel hours: 18, days — 3.
Route Description: ЮЗ склону
Report on the ascent of Khan-Tengri via the Northwest Ridge in 2000, category of difficulty 5A, combined route, height difference 2800 m.
Ascent Passport
- Ascent area — Central Tien Shan, Tengri Tag ridge, South Inylchek glacier, number according to the 1999 classification table —.
- Peak name: Khan Tengri (6995 m), route name: via NW edge from Chapayev peak shoulder (I. Grebenshchikov).
- Complexity category: 5A category.
- Route type — combined
- Route elevation gain: 2800 m (by altimeter); route length — 8260 m; sections of 5th category — 1500 m; 6th category —.
Route Description: ЮЗ склону
Ascent of Khan-Tengri via the West Couloir, 5B category of difficulty, first ascent by Bars alpine club team in 1997.
Ascent Passport
- Ascent class — altitude-technical
- Ascent area — Central Tien Shan
- Khan-Tengri peak (6995 m) — via the western couloir, first ascent
- Estimated complexity category — 5B
- Height difference — 2800 m of which:
- wall — 1200 m
- Length — about 6000 m, including rock part — about 1800 m
- Length of sections with 5–6 complexity category — 125 m
Route Description: ЮЗ склону
Report on the first ascent of the west wall of Khan-Tengri peak (6,995 m) by the team from Odessa regional council of the "Avangard" sports society in 1982.
Consider the route via 40–3 saddle
as an option of cat. 5B (record No. 10 p. 7 of the classification)
USSR ALPINISM CHAMPIONSHIPS 1982
Category 5 TECHNICAL-ALTITUDE ASCENTS group
N/N not to be included in the table
Order No. 525 dated 22.02.83 p. 26.
25.01.83
Report
on the ascent to Khan-Tengri peak (6995 m) via the west face
Route Description: СВ ребру плеча п. Чапаева
Ascent to Khan-Tengri peak (7010 m) by the Western ridge via the Northern summit of Chapayev peak, grade 5B.
Passport
- Class — high-altitude.
- Tian Shan, Tengri-Tag ridge.
- Peak Khan Tengri, 7010 m, from S. Inylchek Glacier along the Western ridge via the Northern summit of Peak Chapayev (along the NE edge of Peak Chapayev's shoulder).
- Complexity category — 5B.
- Height difference — 2500 m, length — 9000 m, length of sections with 5 and 6 complexity categories — 400 m, average steepness of the main part of the route — 30°.
- 7 rock anchors hammered in, previously hammered anchors used.
- Team's travel hours — 15.5 hours and days — 3.
- Overnights: 1st — 5600 m — comfortable in a tent, 2nd — 5800 m — in a snow cave, all lying down.
- Leader: Bolotov Alexey Vasilyevich — Candidate Master of Sports.
Route Description: СВ ребру плеча п. Чапаева
Ascent record of Khan-Tengri peak via NE ridge of Chapayev Peak shoulder, category 5B, made by the team of Rostov regional alpine federation in 1996.
Ascent Passport
- Class of high-altitude ascents
- Tian Shan, Tengri Tag ridge
- Peak Khan Tengri via NE edge of p. Chapayeva's shoulder;
- Difficulty category — 5B.
- Elevation gain — 2910 m. Distance 6160 m. Distance of sections with V difficulty category 960 m. Average steepness of the main part of the route 40°.
- Team's travel hours — 18, days — 3.
Route Description: СВ ребру плеча п. Чапаева
Description of the first ascent of Peak 6250 m in the Central Tian-Shan via the right part of the northern wall and the western ridge, category 5A, climbed by a team led by Vladimir Moskalev in 1985.
- High-altitude technical class.
- Central Tien-Shan (Tengri-Tag).
- Peak 6250 m via the right part of the N wall and W ridge.
- Proposed — 5B category of difficulty, first ascent.
- Height difference 2250 m, length — 2900 m. Length of sections with 5 category of difficulty — 1710 m, 6 category of difficulty — 80 m. Average slope — 50°
- Pitons hammered: Rock 42, chocks 25, ice screws 102
- Team's working hours: 30 hours, days — 5
Route Description: СВ ребру плеча п. Чапаева
Report on the first ascent of the northeastern ridge of Peak Chapayev followed by an ascent of Khan-Tengri Peak as part of the 1988 Kazakh SSR Alpine Championship.
Championship of the Kazakh SSR
High-altitude class
II. Peak Khan-Tengri (6995 m) via the north-eastern ridge of the shoulder of Peak Chapayev from the North Inylchek Glacier (first ascent)
Team 12 SCA SAVO Coach: Yuriy Mikhaylovich Moiseev Team captain: Valeriy Nikolayevich Khrshchatyy
- 12 Sports Club of the Army, Almaty
- Almaty, Kurmangazy St., 15, apt. 8, Khrshchatyy V. N., ph. 61-27-25 Participants: V. Khrshchatyy, Z. Aubekerov, G. Mikhaylov, A. Vasil'yev, Ye. Sedel'nikov (SCA-12) August 17-20, 1988