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Team is set for Russian North Face Everest expedition
12:13 p.m. EST Feb 23, 2004
RussianClimb.com released the latest news on the Russian Everest Central North Face expedition this weekend. Leaving this week, February, 25, are Russians best high-altitude climbers:
Victor Kozlov (Moscow)- leader
Nickolay Cherny (Moscow)- senior coach
Serguey Shakuro (Novokuznetsk)- cameraman
Igor Borisenko (Moscow)- cameraman
Vladimir Kuptsov (Moscow)- photocorrespondent
Serguey Bytchkovsky (Yekaterinburg)- doctor
Eugeny Vinogradsky (Yekaterinburg)- climber
Yuri Ermachek (Yekaterinburg)- climber
Nickolay Zhilin (Yekaterinburg)- climber
Victor Bobok (Moscow)- climber
Victor Volodin (Moscow)- climber
Yuri Koshelenko (Rostov-Don)- climber
Andrew Mariev (Togliatti)- climber
Pawel Shabaline (Kirov)- climber
Iljas Tukhvatullin (Podolsk)- climber
Gleb Sokolov (Novosibirsk)- climber
Piotr Kuznetsov (Кrasnojarsk)- climber
Vladimir Arkhipov (Кrasnojarsk)- climber
Alexey Bukinitch (Sochi)- climber
Alexander Pjatnicyn (Rostov-Don)- coach
Comments one of the members - Eugeny Vinogradsky, a legend of Soviet and Russian Mountaineering:
"The main difficulty will be rocks at that altitude. When I saw this Wall for the first time, I wanted to clmb it right away... This huge, grandiose, beautiful Wall at the highest mountain. Our team is very strong. We promise to do our best to climb the new Russian route to Everest."
Image of the route courtesy of Mountain.ru and image of Vinogradsky courtesy of Russianclimb.com
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