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Tallest mountain in the Altai range

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, metres (14,&#;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 &#;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 by Mongolian mountaineers sponsored by the government.

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• Chistyakov, K. V.; Ganiushkin, D. A. (), "Glaciation and Thermokarst Phenomena and Natural Disasters in the Mountains of North-West Inner Asia", in Culshaw, Martin; Osipov, Victor; Booth, S.J.; et&#;al. (eds.), Environmental Security of the European Cross-Border Energy Supply Infrastructure NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, Springer, pp.&#;–, ISBN&#;
• Krumwiede, Brandon S.; Kamp, Ulrich; Leonard, Gregory J.; Kargel, Jeffrey S.; Dashtseren, Avirmed; Walther, Michael (), "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.&#;–, ISBN&#;

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