About the At-Bashi Range
At-Bashi is a mountain range between the At-Bashi valley in the north and the Ak-Sai valley in the south. Translated from Kyrgyz it means the head of a horse. The length of the ridge is 135 km; the maximum altitude is 4786 m.
The range is composed of Paleozoic metamorphic schist, limestone, sandstone, partly eruptive rocks (granite, syenite). There are glacial landforms on the watershed. Modern glaciation covers an area of about 150 square km. These are mainly mountain meadow and subnival landscapes. The southern slopes of the ridge are very different from the northern ones. The northern ones represent alpine meadows as the southern stony semi-desert slopes. The reason for these differences is the orientation of the ridge from east to west.