South Enilchek

The Southe Enilchek glacier is the largest glacier in the Tien Shan. Its length is 60.5 km, its area - 567.2 km ². The glacier begins in huge pools of snowfields in the shape of a circus at an altitude of 7440 m. The tongue of the glacier, 43.2 km long for an average width of 2.2 km, descends to 2800 m with an average slope of about 2 °. At the same time, it receives 78 large and small glacier-tributaries on both sides. The thickness of the ice on the main well reaches 150-200 m, the snowfield line is at an altitude of 4580 m, the lower 14 km of the tongue is covered with moraine.