Mountain travel in Kazakhstan.

"The gray ridge floated away into the frost and darkness.
We go forward, but the wind erases the trace.
It's white all around...
The wind erases the trace."

Syrym Kuderin. "Across the glacier."

Photo tours in Tien-Shan mountains.

Igly Tuyuk-Su glacier is located: upper boundary of glacier is at an altitude of 4,213 m. a. s. l., end of glacier is at an altitude of 3,904 m. a. s. l., is located in lateral, eastern spur of Small Almaty gorge, on northern slope of Zailiysky Alatau, in system of vast Northern Tien-Shan ridge, in Medeu district of Almaty. 

Below the ridge, the Igly Tuyuksu glacier adjoins the tongue of the Tuyuksu glacier from the east, which is located in the upper reaches of the Small Almaty gorge. This glacier is of the valley type and descends to the northwest from the slopes of the ridge of the same name and from the summit of Tuyuksu, 4,220 m. a. s. l.
Despite the significant steepness of the wall of the glacial cirque, it is covered with snow everywhere. The average height of the rear ridges of the cirque is 4,190 m. a. s. l. The cirque itself is a short and relatively flat gorge. The open tongue of the glacier is 1.6 kilometers long.
The dead ice of the buried part, as well as that of the Tuyuk-Su glacier, descends to a height of 3,200 m. a. s. l. and is lost in the general buried mass of ice belonging to all the glaciers of the basin. To the west of the Tuyuk-Su glacier, on the eastern slope of the Kumbel spur, there are four glaciers - Zoi Kosmodemyanskoy, Molodezhny and two hanging (1 and 2).

Geographic coordinates of Igly Tuyuk-Su glacier: N43°02'47 E77°06'16

Authority:
Catalog of glaciers. - Leningrad, 1967, v. 13, c. 2. Part 2. Tuyuksu Glaciers (Northern Tien Shan). L.: Gidrometeoizdat, 1984. Icing of the Tien Shan. Ed. N. B. Dyurgerova. - M., 1995. Icing of the Trans-Ili Alatau. - M .: Nauka, 1969. Palgov N. N. Bolshealmatinsky glaciation site in the ridge of Zailiysky Alatau. Brief Encyclopedia Kazakh SSR, Volume 2, Nature, Alma-Ata, 1990.

Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.