Engels Peak is a mountain in the
Shakhdara Range of the South Western
Pamir Mountain System in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
. The mountain is flanked by Glacier Naspar (5.1 km
2) in the north and Kishtidzharob Glacier (8.3 km
2) in the south.
History
Engels Peak was originally known as the Queen's Peak, after
Empress Maria Feodorovna. During the Soviet era it was renamed Engels Peak, after the German philosopher
Friedrich Engels
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Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...]
.
Karl Marx Peak is close to Engels peak. The first recorded ascent was in 1954 by a team of Georgian climbers led by Maxim Gvarliani.
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Six-thousanders of the Pamir