Tours to Tossor Gorge on southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.

"Hurricanes on glaciers, reaching a furious speed of forty meters per second, raise immeasurable masses of loose, semolina-like mountain snow, piling up snowdrifts."

"Traveling in the Pamirs." Pavel Luknitsky. 1955.

Glacial-nival zone in mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

Tossor West Glacier is located on northern slope of Terskey Ala-Too Range, in upper reaches of eponymous gorge, on northern slope of Tossor Pass, in Ton and Jety-Oguz districts of Issyk-Kul region. 
Tossor West Glacier is located to the west of the Tossor Central group of glaciers. The length of the glacier is 755 meters, the greatest width in the upper part is 630 meters. The area of ​​the glacier is 0.29 square kilometers, the perimeter of the glaciers reaches 2.94 kilometers.
The length of the moraine is 1.1 kilometers, the area of ​​the moraine is 0.26 square kilometers, the perimeter reaches 3.25 kilometers. A stream flows from the northern part of the glacier, which is the left tributary of the Tossor River. To the west of the Tossor West glacier, behind the meridional spur, there is a vast Chetendy glacier, to the east, a group of Tossor glaciers.
In the lower part of the glaciers, on the moraine, there is a flowing lake, from here begins the source of the stream, which flows into the Tossor River on the left side.
Geographical coordinates of Tossor West glacier: N41 ° 57'03 E77 ° 20'25

Authority and photos by:
Alexander Petrov.