Subject: Re: cnmnruw<br/>
Date: Mar 30, 2002 @ 22:26<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1577510096">granthutchison wrote:<br/>
&quot;It seems to have a number of Mongolian names: Tavanbogd Uul  <br/>
means &quot;Five Saints Peak&quot; (I don&#39;t know where this name might come  <br/>
from, or even what kind of &quot;saints&quot; these are). It&#39;s also called  <br/>
Kujten-Uul and Nayramadlïn (&quot;Friendship Peak&quot;, which is a reference  <br/>
to its tripoint status at the junction of three once-Communist  <br/>
states).&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Yes, I&#39;ve found out now that this Tavan-Bogd-Uul (which I now take <br/>
for the more correct Mongolian name) is a mountain massive with a <br/>
number of peaks (maybe five?). The highest one, and presumably on the <br/>
tripoint, is called Najramdal (again from the Russian/Cyrillic). This <br/>
should also be the highest point in Mongolia.<br/>
<br/>
Friendship peak sounds alright, at least better than &quot;Peak of the <br/>
Proletarian Press&quot; or the Arctic islands named after the Pravda <br/>
newspaper, the Komsomol etc.<br/>
<br/>
Anyway, I also found out now that the expedition of 2001 has been <br/>
postponed to september 2002, due to the extreme snowfall of last year <br/>
(even more?!).<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>