Khüiten Peak (
Mongolian: Хүйтэн оргил, romanized: Hüiten orgil, [ˈxʉe̯tʰɘ̆ŋˈœrɟɘɮ]; lit. "cold peak"), also known in
China as Friendship Peak (
Chinese: 友谊峰;
pinyin: Yǒuyí Fēng), is a mountain peak in the
Altai Range. The international border between
China and
Mongolia runs across its summit point, which, at 4,356 metres (14,291 ft), is the highest point in the Altais and the highest in both Mongolia and
Altay Prefecture in
Western China. The peak is covered in snow year-round.
In the past, Khüiten Peak was officially known in
Mongolia as the "Friendship Peak" (Mongolian: Найрамдал Уул, romanized: Nairamdal Uul, [ˈnæe̯ɾəmd̥əɮˈʊːɮ]).[4]
Khüiten Peak is one of five peaks of
Tavan Bogd. Another peak, which is about 2.5 km north of it, marks the border
tripoint between
Russia, Mongolia, and China; the name of that peak is given in international agreements and on maps as Tavan Bogd Peak (
Russian: Таван-Богдо-Ула, Tavan-Bogdo-Ula; Mongolian: Таван Богд Уул, Tawan Bogd Uul), or Mount Kuitun (
Chinese: 奎屯山;
pinyin: Kuítún shān).[5][6][7]
Some sources, however, associate the name
Nairamdal Peak (Friendship Peak) with the peak at the border tripoint.[citation needed]
The first known ascent of Khüiten Peak was in 1963 by Mongolian mountaineers sponsored by the government.
Krumwiede, Brandon S.; Kamp, Ulrich; Leonard, Gregory J.; Kargel, Jeffrey S.; Dashtseren, Avirmed; Walther, Michael (2014), "Recent Glacier Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Case Studies from Munkh Khairkhan and Tavan Bogd", in Kargel, Jeffrey Stuart (ed.),
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Springer-Praxis series in geophysics, Springer, pp. 481–509,
ISBN978-3540798187
^See e.g. the index in
Krumwiede et al. 2014; or see the Soviet
Topo map M45-104, scale 1:100,000, where the name Mt. Nairamdal (г. Найрамдал) is associated with the peak whose elevation is 4374.0 m. The highest peak is also referred to as Nairamdal in
Chistyakov & Ganiushkin 2015, p. 209
^中华人民共和国和俄罗斯联邦关于中俄国界西段的协定 (Agreement between the PRC and RF in regard to the western section of the China-Russia border), 1994-09-03 (in Chinese)