30
Dec
2016
Altai Tavan bogd
Posted By : Admin/774
This huge mountain range is over 900 km long stretching from western end of the country passing through Gobi-Altai Aimag. The highest peak is 4374 m high Mount Khuiten. This 100km-long mountain range starting from Mount Khuiten to Gichgenii Nuruu is known as Altai range. There are glaciers at the height of 3500-4000m of the mountain range. The biggest one is 20km-long Potanin glacier, at the beginning of Tsagaan River. Altai range has 5 main peaks which are Khuiten (4374m), Nairamdal (4082m), Malchin (4037m), Burged (4068m) and Ulgii (4050m). Total of over 650 mountaineers has reached the mountain peak since the first mountaineer in 1956.