Recommmendations

To arrange permit at the border zone and registration at the ministry of internal affairs you should send us the following details not later before 3 weeks till your trip: scanned passport copy of good quality, the copy of air ticket booking (PNR) (in case of visa getting at the airport, planned dates of the trip, reference from your place of work (in case of group - this reference could be made as table with mentioning full details concerning place of work and working position for each person). There is regime with no with no visa required between Kyrgyzstan and Russia and CIS countries. To get to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – the citizens of Russian and CIS countries should have international passport (issued for foreign travel, as opposed to internal passport).
We recommend you to send passport details before 3 weeks (or – it’s better-before 1 month) before your trip to arrange all needed permits beforehand.
Upon arrival in the country you are to pick up from customs office and write in 2 (two) customs declaration forms. Out of the two form one form stays with the customs while the other one is to be stamped and returned back to you by the customs officer so that you could produce it to customs officer at time of you departure the country. In the customs declaration you are to describe all cash money, traveller’s cheques, weapons and ammunition (if any), psychotropic substances and other items that needs to be declared under the form. Make sure that you fill in the form in two (identical) copies even though the customs officer may assert to you that it is not necessary. The point is that at the time of your leaving the country you are to declare valuables and money you’ve got once again. And customs officer is in right to require your first (old) declaration to be produced. If you fail to produce the old one and your new declaration states some amount of money that you are taking out of the country then the officer has a right to confiscate this money. Once again, we reiterate: if the officer at time of your entering the country tells you that one form is enough while the officer at time of your exiting the country requires the old form to be produced then how do you prove him that you do not take country’s money out but are taking just your own money unless you have your entering declaration?
You can easily without limitation change your US dollars or Euros or Russian roubles to local Kyrgyz soms at any exchange office in town of Osh. Same kind of currency is in circulation at the BC and ABC.
About details of making ascent to the Lenin Peak you can read in chapter Lenin Peak (7134 m).
Take our advice: if you use services of our company then you would better be using services of those local Kyrgyz people who cooperate with our company on legal contractual basis. This is the company’s prerequisite condition with respect to safety of and warranty to your loads and settling of any disputes that may arise in case of loss of or damage to your loads.
As to high-altitude gear, “Pamir Expeditions” offers its clients gear to rent as follows: high-peak tenets (“Red Fox” and “Terra Nova” models), gas-stove burners, ropes, crampons, ice-axes, two-way radios etc. The rest of the gear, we do suggest, has to be of your own and brought with you (see in the “Gear” section).

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