Comments on: 5 Fantastic Mountain Scenes in Xinjiang, China

By: jason

jason — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:00:42 +0000

Josh and the blogger who posted the pictures are right. Damo is wrong. the original blogger clearly stated that K2 is located along the “borders of China and Pakistan”. the geo political map clearly shows that.
Damo was wrong to state that “K2 is in Pakistan” because it is not, it locates BOTH in Pakistan and China.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:03:47 +0000

Quite frankly you should be able to sit on either side and get a good view of the mountains. Urumqi is basically surrounded on all sides by the Tian Shan.

By: haan

haan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:39:50 +0000

Hi, wish to ask that when flying to Urumqi (from Guangzhou), which side of the plane I shall sit, so that I can have the nice view of Tian Shan?

By: Jonathan (@retrotraveller)

Jonathan (@retrotraveller) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:55:53 +0000

5 awesome reasons to go to Xinjiang… by the way, whatever the height of Muztag-ata, it is one stunning mountain which I also saw from Karakul Lake – great photos!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:11:19 +0000

I give up! You win, Damo :) Although it does seem pretty counter-intuitive for people to take a chopper up to Everest base camp.

By: damo

damo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:57:16 +0000

Everest two base camps at 5300mtrs and 5200mtrs.So your going to tell the people they didn’t really climb 8848mtrs they only climbed 3600mtrs.

You can helicopter into base camp at Everest.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:41:45 +0000

Ok, I was wondering why you were being such a stickler about this mountain, but it makes sense if you’ve personally tried to climb it.

If you’ve successfully climbed this mountain, that’s definitely something to be proud of and I’m not taking that away from you. I’m just making the point that by the time you make it to the base of the mountain you’re already thousands of feet above sea level. That’s what makes the Karakoram Highway so beautiful.

So if you drive up 3,000 meters and then climb another 4,546 meters, can you claim that you’ve climbed 7,546 meters?

By: damo

damo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:41:58 +0000

Josh they are all are “FROM SEA LEVEL”.

I attempted to climb and ski down it six years ago.Not successful.

What do you mean not of actual climbing.

It is 7546mtrs to the peak.The peak is what most people aim for to say they where successful in climbing a mountain.

Alot of places are below sea level in Xinjaing.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:55:43 +0000

7,546 meters FROM SEA LEVEL, not of actual climbing. I’ll grant you the fact that it’s still a mountain, and any mountain presents plenty of difficulties, but with the company of such mountains like K2 and the Altai Mnts, this is one of the smaller ones.

Would you climb it?

By: damo

damo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:47:07 +0000

Josh Muztagh Ata at 7546 mtrs(24,757 ft) is one high mountain peak.If that isn’t a “terribly high mountain” I don’t know what is.

It is not technically difficult to climb but the altitude makes it a dangerous climb.

You still have to know what you are doing climbing it.

There is no one to help you if you get into trouble.