Product Description

Kyrgyzstan offers three unsullied mountain ranges to explore and conquer. This map includes them allFeaturesPeaks for the Western Kokshaal-Too, Ala-Archa and Karashvin mountain ranges includedNo other climbing map to Kyrgyzstan availableFull color, topographic maps of the three rangesBrief descriptions also included

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1159327 in Books
• Brand: Mountaineer Books
• Published on: 2006-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 2 pages

About the Author
The text for this American Alpine Club map-guide was written by GARTH WILLIS of The Alpine Fund, a Kyrgyzstan-based charity that takes at-risk children into the mountains. The cartography is by MARTIN GAMACHE of the Alpine Mapping Guild, who has lifted these topo maps to an art form.

Customer Reviews

useful map, the best so far on the market
It is the only good quality map available for English reading audience.
Pros:
1) Covers well extremely remote country,
2) Provides a lot of details,
3) Written and prepared by a person who knows his business.
Con:
1) Quality of the paper should be better,
2) Needs some more polishing.

excellent map, extremely poor paper
This map is a great overview of three of the more notable climbing areas in Kyrgyzstan, one of the most beautiful of the central asian 'stans', where great opportunities abound for trekking, climbing, and 'eco tourism'.
The maps are beautifully done topographical relief maps, with some short but useful descriptive text about the areas.
Unfortunately the paper quality is extremely poor, in fact the creases have already begun tearing after only unfolding the map a couple times. This dreadfully poor paper quality makes the map virtually useless for all but the most gentle armchair exploring, I'm going to have to tape the map back together in less than a week of just looking at it on my desk. So the map gets one star for my review, I should have hoped 'Alpine Map Guild' would have put much more quality into their printing, such a flimsy map is just an insult.