Muztagh Ata 7546 m Expedition 2024

Photo appreciation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muztagh_Ata_Xinjiang_China.jpg

Guaranteed departure date expedition “Muztagh Ata peak 2024”
July 7 – August 1
Note: The program will be held only if the group consists of 6 people or more!

See also: Восхождении на пик Музтаг-Ата (7546 м)
and Muztagh Ata 7545M Expedition Torugart-Torugart

Program: Bishkek – Bishkek (you may join in Kashgar)

Duration: 26 days

Location: Xinjiang, China, Asia

Price:
6-7 persons – $5400.00
8-9 persons – $4560.00
10-11 persons – $4055.00
12-13 persons – $3710.00
14 persons and more – $3460.00

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Program: Bishkek – Bishkek

Day 1 (July 7) Arrival in Bishkek. City tour and overnight in hotel.
Arrival to Manas International airport. You will be met by representative of Asia Outdoor Club. Transfer to the hotel. After a rest we will have a city tour in Bishkek. Night in a hotel.
Day 2 (July 8) Drive Bishkek – Balykchy – Naryn (360 km., 5-6 hrs.)
Day 3 (July 9) Transfer Naryn – Kashgar (350 km., 8-9 hrs.) through Torugart Pass
Day 4 (July 10) Kashgar
Day 5 (July 11) Transfer Kashgar – Idara (200 km., 5-6 hrs.)
Day 6 (July 12) Idara – Muztagh Ata Base Camp (4450 m.)
Days 7-8 (July 13-14) Acclimatization in Base Camp
Day 9 (July 15) Acclimatization ascent to Camp 1 (5350 m.)
Day 10 (July 16) Return to Base Camp (4450 m.)
Day 11 (July 17) Base Camp – Camp 1 (5350 m.)
Day 12 (July 18) Camp 1 (5350 m.) – Camp 2 (6200 m.)
Day 13 (July 19) Camp 2 (6200 m.) – Camp 3 (6800 m.)
Day 14 (July 20) Descend to Base Camp (4450 m.)
Day 15 (July 21) Rest day in Base Camp.
Day 16 (July 22) Base Camp – Camp 1.
Day 17 (July 23) Camp 1 – Camp 2.
Day 18 (July 24) Camp 2 – Camp 3.
Day 19 (July 25) Muztagh Ata summit (7546 m.) and descend to Camp 2 (6200 m.)
Day 20 (July 26) Camp 2 – Base Camp.
Days 21-22 (July 27-28) Reserve days in case of bad weather.
Day 23 (July 29) Base Camp – Kashgar.
Day 24 (July 30) Kashgar – Torugart Pass – Naryn.
Day 25 (July 31) Naryn – Bishkek.
Day 26 (August 1) Flight back home.

The price includes:

– Meeting/seeing-off at the airport in Bishkek
– Bishkek city tour
– Tour leader of the expedition (deals with organizational issues and helps the group; if you need a mountain guide, then you need to book it separately)
– English accompanying guide in Kyrgyzstan and China (!not mountain guide)
– All transfers according to the program
– Accommodation in 3* hotel in Bishkek (2 nights) and in hotel in Kashgar (2 nights) in Double Rooms
– Accommodation in Idara in local family or in tents
– Single tents in Base Camp
– Climbing permit
– Visa support and all necessary official documents
– General liaison-officer from the government
– Camels for luggage to BC and back
– Meals in Idara and at BC from Day 5 to Day 23
– Dinning tent and dinning sets in Base Camp
– Ecological fee

The price does not includes:

– The cost of any visa (if needed);
– International flights;
– All optional deviations from the main itinerary;
– Lunches and dinners in Kashgar;
– Beverages and meals not included in main menu;
– High altitude mountain food;
– High altitude tents;
– All personal expenses (extra luggage fee, room service, medical expenses/insurance, etc.);
– The services of a mountain guide and porters for ascending/descending.

Additional payment for single supplement in hotels in cities: 210 USD/person

GUIDE SERVICE
Service of a mountain guide for Muztagh Ata (1 guide for max 3-4 persons) – 6000 USD for the program

Insurance:

Basic insurance requirements:

Alpine medical insurance.

Recommended equipment:

• High-altitude tent
• Cooking set
• Crampons (ex.Grivel G12)
• Back pack  (40-50 lt)
• Harness – better Petzl or Black Diamond with wide lower straps
• Safety system
• Carabiner with clutch – 3-4 pieces
• Jumar
• Telescopic trekking sticks
• Thermos for hot tea
• Release device –“eight” type
• Ice axe
• Snowshoes or skis for ski tour
• Helmet lamp
• Camera
• Video camera and accessories
• Storage battery

List of recommended clothes:

• Trekking shoes
• Plastic mountaineering boots
• Downy jacket and pants (better snow suit)
• Gore-Tex jacket with big hood
• Gore-Tex pants
• Wind block jacket
• Wind block pants
• Polartex jacket-100 – 2
• Thermo underwear – 2 kits
• Personal underwear
• Polartex gloves – 2 pairs
• Mittens – 2 pairs
• Warm woolen socks – 4-5 pieces
• Balaclava
• Warm hat
• Face wind block mask
• UV glasses
• Ski glasses (preferable)
• Gaiters

 Muztagh Ata Kalaksong, Koskulak peak 6849 from the west (photo by Mashenin, August 2005)

Muztagh Ata 7546m

Muztagh Ata, or Muztagata (Turkic ‘ice-mountain-father’), is the second highest (7546 meters) of the mountains which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (not the second highest of the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau). It is sometimes regarded as being part of the Kunlun Shan, although physically it is more closely connected to the Pamir. It is also reputedly one of the easiest 7,000 m peaks in the world to climb, due to its gentle western slope and the comparatively drier weather of Xinjiang.

Muztagh Ata 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. (Both peaks are sometimes regarded as being in the “Chinese Pamir”, and are more closely connected to the main Pamir group than the main Kunlun group.) Not far to the north and east of this group are the lowlands of the Tarim Basin and the Taklamakan Desert. The Karakoram Highway passes very close to both peaks as well as Karakul Lake, from which the mountain is conveniently viewed. The closest city is to the mountain is Tashkurgan, the westernmost town in China and very close to the border with Pakistan.

The Swedish explorer and geographer Sven Hedin made the first recorded attempt to climb Muztagh Ata, in 1894. Additional attempts were made in 1900, 1904 and 1947, the last by the team of Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman who came very close to the summit but were turned back due to cold and deep snow.

The first ascent of the peak was in 1956 by a large party of Chinese and Russian climbers, via the west ridge, which is now the standard route.

Since the first ascent, many ascents of Muztagh Ata have been made. In 1980, a party led by Ned Gillette made a ski ascent/descent of the standard route, the first ski ascent of a mountain over 7,500 m (24,600 ft). An ascent of the much harder south-east ridge was made in 2000, and a secondary route at the west side of the mountain was first climbed in the summer of 2005.

The youngest person to climb Mustagh Ata is Marius Bergsmark Bjertness. He is from Norway and was at the summit 19th of July 2005 at an age of 15 years, 10 months and 14 days (born 6th of September 1989).

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muztagh_Ata
https://turclubmai.ru/heading/papers/1147/
https://turclubmai.ru/heading/papers/1147/0_f06_1.jpg