The content: On this page you can see photos of our expedition to Khan Tengri in summer 2005 and a few more photos we took in Turkistan, an important city of Muslim pilgrimage.

Acknowledgement: The expedition presented here would not have been possible without our main sponsor Mountex, Hungary's leading out-door retailer. We also thank Zoltán Gulyás (picture below), our climbing-mate, who invested immense energies in the project, and Irene Toksabayeva, a Kazakh friend who provided us with some very useful local information.

Right: Members of the expedition, about to leave Karkara basecamp for the glacier.

Below: the view from the helicopter:

Right: This is the way to take photos out of a MI-8 Russian helicopter at 4000 m altitude - simple, isn't it?

Above: Camp 1 (4400m) - below (some 400 altitude meters lower) the North Inylchek Glacier.

Right: on the way between camp 1 and camp 2, this was the most "horizontal" spot and thus the only suitable place to pack and eat. Anything else was just more steep.

Below: the queue on the way from camp 1 to camp 2.

Right: photo-time on the way from camp 1 to camp 2. As the spot is still as steep as it was before (picture above), me, the backpac and basically anything that could possibly fall down had to be fixed to the rope.

Below: picturesque background for a lunch in camp 2 (5500m).

Right: part of the group on peak Chapayev (6100m). This is a "smaller" peak we had to climb on our way to camp 3.

Below: Camp 3 (5900m). Left from the ridge is Kazakhstan, right from the ridge is Kyrgyzstan and ahead, along the ridge, is the way up to peak Khan Tengri.

Above: Dani and me at a traverse at 6800m altitude at 5pm. This is how far I got - here I turned back, to make sure I would reach camp 3 by sunset. Dani went ahead, summited around 7pm and returned to camp 3 around midnight. On the same day, still before Dani, also Péter and Gyuri summited Khan Tengri. This was the first time that Hungarians climbed Khan Tengri from the North (there have been successful Hungarian expeditions from the South).

Below: crossing the glacier again on the way back to the basecamp.

Remarks to the content: This page is currently under construction. So far, you can see the photos and a short explanation to each of them. In the upcoming weeks I will be filling in more text, describing the entire story. For now, you can find the entire story (in Hungarian) on the website of Péter (one of the participants of the expedition) and on szikla.hu (a Hungarian website dedicated to mountain climbing), as well as the story in Hungarian with illustrations and a separate picture gallery on the website of Mountex, our sponsor. You can also find an on-line gallery with a huge amount of photos (with short remarks in English to each picture) on the website of Dani (another participant of the expedition). Further related information (in English and Russian) can be found on the website of the Kantengri company, the main tour operator in the region. I can also recommend the pictures of another Hungarian expedition on the website of Leto and friends (with short remarks in Hungarian to each picture) who came to Khan-Tengri some two weeks after us and, for those who understand Romanian, the website of some Romanian friends we met on the mountain. If you want to see the dramatic part, on the website of channel4 you find a movie (click the link under the image) showing what happened to "our" helicopter 3 days after it took us back from the glacier.

Technical remarks: the pictures presented here are originally on slides. Most of them have not be scanned with a real slide scanner (but only with a simple desktop scanner), therefore the quality of the digital images is not the best. If you want to see the real thing, come to see one of my slide shows or just simply donate me a professional slide scanner :-)