The mountain of Kan Tengri in the high Tian Shen mountains of Kyrgyzstan is the most northerly 7000m peak in the world

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Kyrgyzstan is a Central Asian state bordering China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan it became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Tian Shan mountain range lies in the country in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. In the south it links up with the Pamir Mountains and to north and east it meets the Altai Mountains of Mongolia This photograph shows This photograph shows The mountain of Kan Tengri in the high Tian Shen mountains of Kyrgyzstan is the most northerly 7000m peak in the world and forms a famous climbing destination

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