Chakragil (or Chagragil, Chakar Aghil, Kingata Tagh r Kingata Tagh II, see below is a major mountain in

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, China, at 6,760 metres. It is located about southwest of

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, about due north of

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, and northwest of

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. It is in the subrange known as the Kingata Shan, generally included in the "Eastern

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" as it (and the neighboring Kongur Shan range) are separated by the major

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valley from the extreme northwest end of the

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, near the

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. The Gez River flows just south of the mountain. Due to its remote location, Chakragil is a little-visited peak. It was attempted by the noted mountaineering pair

Eric Shipton Eric Earle Shipton, CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977), was an English Himalayan mountaineer. Early years Shipton was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1907 where his father, a tea planter, died before he was three years old. When he was e ...

and

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in September 1948. However they only reached a height of about . On September1, 1988, Japanese leader Misao Hirano, together with Minoru Hachisu and Kenji Nakayama, made the first ascent of the mountain. The peak was climbed again in 2000 by Mark Newcomb, alone, via the west ridge. Th
Himalayan Index
lists no other ascents or attempts. Names of peaks and ranges in this area are often uncertain. Chakragil is one of the peaks in the Kingata Shan, but it is unclear which of these peaks it should be identified with. For the purposes of this article (in particular the

topographic prominence In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling ...

value), it is treated as identical with Kingata Tagh, the highest peak of the Kingata Shan. If this identification is incorrect (in particular, Chakragil may actually be Kingata Tagh II), it is unclear what peak(s) were climbed in 1988 and 2001, and it further uncertain as to whether Kingata Tagh has been climbed.A detailed discussion of the range appears at th
Kingata Tagh page on Summitpost
. A map of Central Asia published by Map Link shows a mountain north of the Gez river which it calls 'Karabekter Tagh'. It shows Chakragil as a small lake to the southwest. The mountain is just north of the

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. In November 2024, Chinese state media released a surveillance video of a massive snow avalanche from the summit of Chakragil in Oytagh Glacier Park.

References

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