Snow Leopard award


The Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to highly skilled mountaineers. It is still recognized in the Commonwealth of Independent States. To receive this award, a climber was required to summit all five peaks within the former Soviet Union with elevation above.
It was founded on October 12, 1967 by the Central Council of Sports Societies and Organizations of the USSR.

The peaks

The Snow Leopard peaks include:
  1. Ismoil Somoni Peak
  2. Jengish Chokusu
  3. Ibn Sina Peak
  4. Peak Ozodi
  5. Khan Tengri
In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are three Snow Leopard peaks, Ismoil Samani Peak , Peak Ozodi , and Ibn Sina Peak on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.
In the Tian Shan there are two Snow Leopard peaks, Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan, and Khan Tengri on the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border. Khan Tengri's geologic elevation is but its glacial cap rises to. For this reason, it is considered a peak.
In order of difficulty, Jengish Chokusu is by far the most difficult and dangerous, followed by Khan Tengri, Ismail Samani Peak, Peak Korzhenevskaya, and Lenin Peak.

Recipients

There are more than 600 climbers, including 31 women, who have received this award between 1961 and 2012.

Records