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Key facts
- Elevation
- 7,649 m (25,095 ft) , Ranked 37th
- Prominence
- 3,585 m (11,762 ft) , Ranked 49th
- Listing
- Ultra
- Location
- Akto County , Xinjiang , China
- Parent range
- Pamir Mountains
- First ascent
- 1981 by British team
- Easiest route
- Rock/snow/ice climb
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kongur Tagh (meaning 'Brown Mountain' in Turkic languages) is the highest peak in the Pamir Mountains, and also the highest mountain wholly within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. With an elevation of 7,649 metres (25,095 ft), it is also the highest mountain outside of the Hindu Kush/Karakoram and Himalaya ranges.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kongur Tagh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.