Pamirs. A Soviet-Chinese expedition was active in the Trans-Alai Group in the western Pamirs. Nineteen members of the expedition made, on August 14, 1955, the first ascent of a 22,227-foot neighbor of Peak Lenin, which they named Peak of Unity "as a sign of the indissoluble friendship between the U. S. S. R. and the Chinese People’s Republic.” On August 15 they climbed the main summit of the Sulumart range, Peak Oktjabskri (22,251 feet), which had alternately difficult rock and ice.