Matcha (Kyrgyzstan) ― 2005
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In
July 2005 I returned to Kyrgyzstan for the third time in a few years. I went to
the Turkestan range, a mountain chain also called Pamir-Alay located at the
very south of
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Maps and Itinerary
The first map below
outlines in red the area of our trek. This area is a relatively narrow band
between
This more detailed map
shows our foot itinerary in blue, as well as the two enclaves.
The third map below is a
compressed scan of a 1:100,000 topographic map (click here
for a full-resolution scan, where all passes are conveniently numbered in red).
The blue line shows the itinerary on foot. The green line is the road access to
the start of the trek. The dots indicate the camp sites (red: 1 night; pink: 2
nights).
The itinerary starts at
the Daugman village, goes along the Kalai-Mahmud river, does a side-trip to the impressive Raigorodsky glacier, traverses Kurdaktyr
pass (numbered 1.3.9 on the full-resolution scan) at 3280m to reach Kara-Kul-Katta lake, reaches Kshemysh
river through the double pass Dvoynoy (1.3.6) at
4090m, follows the Kshemysh glacier to the reach the
spectacular Shurovskogo pass (1.4.1) at 4300m,
descends the Shurovski glacier on the other side of
the pass (the Shurovski glacier is at the high end of
the Djiptyk valley that we will reach a few days
later), ascends and crosses Mingteke pass (1.5.5) at
4180m to reach the Mingteke glacier, crosses the easy
Taksatorov pass (1.5.3) at 3500m to reach the
Kara-Tur valley, does a side-trip to the interesting Kara-Tur glacier, crosses
the gentle Kingdyk pass (1.5.9) at 2740m to reach the
lower part of the Djiptyk river, goes up along this
river, ascends the long but easy trail to Djiptyk
pass (1.4.8) at 3810m, and finally descends into the Tajik Vorukh
enclave.
Virtual
trek with Google Earth
Click on the links below
to see photos of the four sections of this trek:
1.
Daugman village to Dvoynoy
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During that trip I also
visited Bukhara. Here
are some photos