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Oytagh Glacier Park

Oytagh Glacier is a national-level glacier park of China. It is fairly easy to reach, lying just 12 kilometers off the G314 highway (part of the Sino-Pakistan Highway) and 72 kilometers from the downtown areas of Tashkurgan, a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Kashgar, Xinjiang. The Oytagh Glacier features a representative Kyrgyzstan glacier & forest scenery.

Receiving between 300 and 500 mountaineering teams from over 30 countries each year, the Oytagh Glacier, with its main peak the Muztagh (7509m above sea level), is lauded as a mountaineering training base camp, and the highest mountain for skiing.
Oytagh Glacier, MuztaghOytagh Glacier, Muztagh, Karakul Lake
 Oytagh Glacier, the typical glacier-forest scenery Oytagh Glacier viewed from the Karakul Lake
 Snow Leopard, Oytagh Glacier, Muztagh Saussurea, Oytagh Glacier, Muztagh
 Snow leopard Saussurea
 
 
Sixteen glaciers lie on the west slope of the Muztagh, covering a total area of 275 square kilometers. Numerous glacier valleys of various spectacular shapes and cracks-laden glacier cascades fill the area, the longest being 20km. Some glaciers stretch continuously from an over-7000m altitude to 3900m. The best mountaineering season of the Muztagh is July and October. Sufficient preparations plus a guide can enable an average mountain climber to reach an altitude of 6000m.

A plantation viewing park has been developed, allowing the visitor access to viewing over 120 flora & fauna species of the plateau & ice mountain areas, including snow leopard, snow cock, brown bear, Saussurea, radices lithospermi, etc.

The Oytagh Glacier is often visited in conjunction with other attractions: Karakul Lake, Opal Village, and the city of Tashkurgan. Mount Qogir (altitude 8611m), popularly known as K2, the second highest mountain of the world, also stands in the Kashgar regions.
 

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