the Tengri Tag and its peak, the colossal Khan Tengri (in 1857). The first ascent of the peak was made in 1931 by ’s Ukrainian team through a route from the south (Kyrgyzstan side), then along the west ridge. M. Kuzmin's team made the first ascent from the north (Kazakhstan side) in 1964. Khan Tengri is one of five peaks that a Soviet mountaineer needed to scale to earn the prestigious Snow Leopard award. Anatoli Boukreev achieved the first solo speed ascent in 1990. A team from Kazakhstan made the first winter ascent of Khan Tengri on February 7, 1992; the team included Valery Khrichtchatyi, Viktor Dedi, Yuri Moiseyev, Valdimir Suviga, Aleksandr Savin, Igor Putintsev and Malik Ismetov. Austrian mountaineer and expedition leader Toni Dürnberger died while descending after having climbed Khan Tengri on 17 August 1992. In 2004, more than a dozen mountaineers were killed in a large avalanche on the Pogrebetsky route, the most popular route on the mountain. The peak appears on the 100 Kyrgyz som note. See also List of elevation extremes by country Footnotes External links Khan Tengri route maps International Mountaineering Camp Kan Tengri Mountains of China Mountains of Kazakhstan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan Issyk-Kul Region Landforms of Almaty Region Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border International mountains of Asia Seven-thousanders of the Tian Shan China–Kazakhstan border China–Kyrgyzstan border Border tripoints Highest points of countries Tengriism