Otgontenger ( mn, Отгонтэнгэр, , "youngest sky") is the highest peak in the
Khangai Mountains
The Khangai Mountains ( mn, Хангайн нуруу, Hangain nuruu, ); form a mountain range, range in central Mongolia, some west of Ulaanbaatar.
Name
Two provinces of Mongolia are named after the Khangai mountains: Arkhangai (North Khangai) ...
in
Mongolia
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. Its summit is currently calculated to reach an elevation of 4,008 meters above mean sea level (some earlier topographic maps record a maximum elevation of 4,021 m). The mountain is located in
Zavkhan Province and is the only peak in the Khangai range that is capped with a permanent glacier. The south face of Mount Otgontenger is the most extensive granite wall in Mongolia.
Since the introduction of Buddhism, traditional Mongolian beliefs have held that wrathful
deities
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inhabit many of Mongolia's
sacred mountains.
Ochirvaani is particularly associated with Otgontenger.
Accidents
In August 1963, an
Ilyushin 14 aircraft crashed into the side of the mountain while on route.
In October 2017, 27 hikers climbed the mountain and only 10 of them came back. They requested the rescue team a day after the other 17 went missing. The rescue operation took about 4 days with helicopters and 250 men. Rescuers found all 17 of them dead,
Bodies of all 17 mountaineers found at Mongolia's Mount Otgontenger
AKIPress, 25 October 2017 having received injuries from both fall damage and from frostbite. However, it was still argued that some of the victims survived the fall and tried to send distress signals by using flashlights.
See also
* List of mountains in Mongolia
* List of Ultras of Central Asia
This is a list of the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Central Asia. The list is divided topographically rather than politically. There are 75 in total; 21 in the Pamirs, 1 in the Karakum, 5 in the Al ...
References
External links
"Otgon Tenger Uul, Mongolia" on Peakbagger
www.summitpost.org/otgon-tenger-uul summitpost/otgon tenger
Mountains of Mongolia
Zavkhan Province
Four-thousanders of Asia
Tengriism
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