Victoria! Russian flag is flying at Cerro Torro!

31.01.02 Timur Akhmedkhanov, Alexander Lastochkin and Arcady Seregin became the first Russians who climbed the forbidding and treacherous peak of Cerro Torre (3128 m, Patagonia).

Four climbers, powered by BASK equipment, left Moscow on the 11th of January. Vyacheslav Skripko, who injured a knee and dropped out of the game, kept us informed during several unsuccessful attempts of the expedition to climb Cerro Torre.

At last, long hoped-for news from Timur Akhmedkhanov reached our office: “We did it! All congratulate us, say we are lucky to return alive. We’ve climbed it in alpine style – just as we were planning to. It took 40 hours from bergschrund back to bergschrund…”
We are impatient to meet our heroes and to learn more from them about the expedition.

21.05.2002