Katyn-Tau
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Katyn-Tau (Georgian: კათინთაუ; Russian: Катын-Тау) is a summit in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (Bezengi Wall). It lies on the border of Svaneti (Mestia Municipality, Georgia) and Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia). The elevation of the mountain is 4979 m (16,335 ft) above sea level. The mountain is made up of paleozoic granites. The slopes of summit are covered nival landscape.
The peak was first ascended in 1888 by a team led by Henry William Holder who summited August 24 via the famously difficult Bezingi Face.
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