Alexander Odintsov`s team
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Public Festival "Çîëîòî ðîññèéñêîãî àëüïèíèçìà" (“Gold of Russian Climbing”) will be organized by BASK company in the Central Cinematographic Hall (Moscow) in 26-27th of November.
This festival is going to be the central and the most important event of Russian climbing and outdoor society in 2005. All our best climbers – winners of `Piolet d’Or’ – should be present there. Among the invited there are stars of World and Russian alpinism, important official persons of sport organizations, leaders of climbing society, outdoor professionals and connoisseurs of mountain sports.
Festival mission: to attract wide public attention to achievements of those Russian athletes, who glorified Russia as a leading climbing country, to raise popularity of sport and healthy life-style among people.
Festival participants: famous climbing team of `Russian Way – Faces of the World’ project with its permanent leader Alexander Odintsov (Saint-Petersburg), climbing team of Sergey Efimov (Yekaterinburg), Yuri Koshelenko (Rostov-na-Donu), Valery Babanov (Calrgary, Canada), Andrey Volkov (President of Russian Climbing Federation), Philippe Descapms (editor in chief of Montagnes Magazine), UIAA representatives and other honorable guests.
Festival program: includes speeches of `Piolet d’Or’ winners and other honorable guests, video and slide shows, presentations of climbing gear and sport equipment, an exhibition of climbing photographers works.
Entrance is free by invitation cards.
Festival organizer: company BASK – a leading Russian producer of outdoor and sport clothing and equipment.
“Piolet d’Or” is the most prestigious mountaineering award ¬– it is a kind of Oscar prize in climbing society. The prize is awarded to strongest climbing teams, whose achievements are proved best in a year. Four times during it 14-years history Piolet d’Or was awarded to Russian climber. First time it was a team from Yekaterinburg leaded by Sergey Efimov who got it for the climb of the West Face of Makalu. Valery Babanov is the only mountaineer in the history of Piolet d’Or, who took the prize twice. For the first time he was awarded it (it was Piolet d’Or–2002) for his impressive solo climb of Meru The Central (Himalayas). For the second – for an awe-inspiring first-climb of Nuptse The East (Himalayas, 7804 m) in 2003 in a duo with Yuri Koshelenko. And the last `Piolet d’Or’ was awarded to a team from Saint-Petersburg leaded by Alexander Odintsov for their climb of the North Face of Jannu. So Russia keeps Piolet d’Or during two last years what is an obvious success of Russian climbing.
19.10.2005
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