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The Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. It is still recognised in the CIS. To receive this award, a climber must summit all 5 peaks 7000m and above in the former Soviet Union.

The peaks are Peak Communism,24,590 ft (7,495 m) and Peak Khorzhenevski in Tajikistan, Lenin Peak 23,508 ft (7,165 m) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border, Pobeda in Kyrgyzstan (sharing the borser with China), and Khan Tengri (7010 m./ 22,998 ft.). on the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border.

Knah Tengri's geologic elevation is 6995m (about 22,950 ft.) but its glacial cap rises to 7010 m (22,998 ft). For this reason, it is considered a 7000m peak.

In order of difficulty, Pobeda is by far the most difficult and dangerous, followed by Khan Tengri, Communism, Khorzhenevski and Lenin.

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