Mount Muztagata with Tsinghua mountaineering team, July 97.

(Kashi, Xingjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.)

 

A team of 6 camels carried our equipment into the base camp.

 

Mountain's snow water irrigated an oasis on its foot.

 

The team in the base camp ( ~ 4,400 m)

 

Camp 1 in sunset. ( ~ 5,800m)

 

Marching to Camp 2. Our equipment wasn't so good.

 

On the summit (7,546m)

 

Lucent Technologies was the main sponsor of the team. Sun burned face was not fully recovered until 4 month later.

 

A Belgium school teacher and me in the base camp.

 

An abandoned village (Tajikstan is on the other side of the ridge.)

 

A cemetery near the village.

 

Mount Muztagata and Lake Kalakuli in dawn.