Inylchek Glacier

Inylchek Glacier

This is a unique area, which captures the imagination of seasoned travellers and mountain-climbers. Squeezed between the huge icy ranges with peaks extending to 5,000-6,000 metres – some of them unclimbed – is the Inylchek glacier, one of the biggest glaciers in the world; its length is 60 km, its depth is 540 metres, and the glacier area is 583 square metres.
The Mertsbacher lake demonstrates a phenomenon characteristic of arctic areas of the Polar ocean: large chunks of ice from the Inylchek glacier are floating on it surface like icebergs. This area resembles a lunar landscape surrounded by high steep peaks.
Looming over the icy snake of the glacier are the Pobeda peak (7,439m), the highest peak of the Tien-Shan mountains, and the exotic pyramid of the Khan-Tengry peak (6,995m).