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@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:58 AM

Ella's fever passes overnight ...

"Next morning Matkerim goes with me. In half an hour's trotting we reach a lateral moraine on our right. Then he departs with the horses to lead them to the pasture. 'Come back for me towards evening,' I say to him."

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"Descent of the Djengart Ridge," Ella Maillart, 1932. A traveller on horseback navigates a steep, snowy slope near the Sari-Tor region in the Tian Shan mountain range of Kyrgyzstan. Petrov Glacier is located on northwestern slope of Ak-Shyirak ridge, located in Jety-Oguz district of Issyk-Kul region. This surreal structure is a massive, overhanging snow cornice (or wind-sculpted snow ridge) shaped by severe high-altitude winds blowing over the crest. The tiny silhouette of a person on a horse provides a powerful sense of scale, contrasting human presence against the colossal forces of nature.
@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:27 AM

“The summit was reached! Auguste relates, 'We attacked it from the left. Slept very well, but weren't able to eat. The crampons were useless, the snow is powdery right up to the top.'

'Ella, it's just made for you,' Volodya says, 'a perfect mountain for skiing.'"

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Kokshaal-Too Range, Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, Ella Maillart, 1932 Volodya Engelhardt, Russian biochemist and prominent member of the Academy of Sciences, rests on a snowy, rocky ridge and looking toward China. He is wearing a soft bucket-style sun hat, dark glacier glasses and a heavy wool cardigan, and is equipped with a traditional canvas pack rope and classic vintage ice axe. The first ascent to the top of Sary-Tor was made at the end of July 1932 by Auguste and Kapitolina Letavet. Ella Maillart peaked it the following day, skiing down from the summit in a round-trip which took her 17 hours.
@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 8:20 AM

"'Ella! take your temperature,' Capa bids me thoughtfully. 'You don't look yourself at all.' 'Of course not. There is no need. I'm hot because it's so stuffy in here.' But she insists. Results a reading of 103.5°. Devil take it, what can it mean?"

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'Mila Engelhardt at a campsite in Sarydzhaz', Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, Ella Maillart, 1932 Soviet researcher and mountaineer Milissa 'Mila' Engelhardt (nee Lyubimova) sits inside a classic A-frame ridge tent pitched in a rocky, open landscape in Sarydzhaz, Kyrgyzstan. This is a remote, high-altitude valley border region in the Tian Shan mountains known for its harsh terrain, sweeping glaciers and dramatic peaks. Mila is wearing a plaid shirt and a white hat, whilst physician and mountaineer Auguste Letavet stands outside in a long coat.
@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 7:22 AM

“In the middle of Ak-Shyirak, a snowy gilded pyramid rises in the setting sun, the harmony of its proportions reminds me of Mont Blanc. “No one has ever climbed this summit,” says Auguste meditatively, and his blue eyes sparkling in his scarlet face."

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The dramatic, ice-capped dome structure of Sary-Tor - 4946.9 metres above sea level and the third highest peak in the Tian Shan mountain range - characterised by heavy permanent snow fields, deeply grooved ice-fall couloirs and prominent crevasses across its upper flanks.
@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 7:50 AM

"Ella," says Volodya in a thrilled voice, "that trickle you saw flowing out of the glacier we crossed is the source of the Syr Dazia, the great Iaxartes of the Ancients, which pours its waters in the Sea of Aral ..."

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'Sources du Syr-Daria et sommet du Sari-Tor', Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (present-day Kyrgyzstan), Ella Maillart, 1932 A glacial landscape feeds the headwaters of the Syr Darya - one of Central Asia's most vital river systems - in the Tian Shan mountain range within the Kyrgyz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (present-day Kyrgyzstan).