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Pik 4,810m, east face.

By Peter Jensen-Choi, Korea

Previously unrecorded outside Korea, but an important event in the history of climbing in the Karavshin, was a new route, climbed free, on the giant east face of Pik 4,810m (Boston) above the Ak-su Valley. On July 17, 1994, Koreans Choi Byeong-gi and Shin Dong-seok started up the face seven or so meters to the right of the Sytnik route and climbed 25 pitches to the summit, at 5.10c. The two bivouacked at three-quarters height in the “Bomb Shelter” and reached the top the following afternoon…. (read more)