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The Expedition of the National combined team will start February, 25 - to Himalaya for the first climb to Mt. Everest via the center of the North Face. That'll be the third big Russian expedition after the previous two - Everest in 82 and Kangchenjunga in 89.
The press conference of team members took place February, 20 in Moscow. All participants of the expedition, sponsors of the project, guests of honour, veterans and
representatives of mass-media were there.
21 February, 2004 in All Saints Church in Moscow the Te Deum for the team success was managed.
THe best high-altitude climbers will take part in the expedition. THe heart of the team are climbers who were in Lhotse Middle (8414 m) expedition in 2001. 9 climbers reached the top of the last unclimbed 8000-er that year. It was the great event. This climb was the nominee in Piolet D'Or 2001.
All events of that expedition showed in "Russian 8000-er" film by VIctor Kozlov and Pawel Kadushin. Climbers filmed all process up to the top - it was very difficult at such altitude. This film became the finalist in BANFF Festival in 2002.
All climbers were awarded by state awards for the LHotse Middle climb - Ordens and Medals. The project began been preparing since June 2001.
This's the members list:
Victor Kozlov (Moscow)- the head and the organizer of the expedition, the head of the film group.
Nickolay Cherny (Moscow)- the 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 (Êrasnojarsk)- climber
Vladimir Arkhipov (Êrasnojarsk)- climber
Alexey Bukinitch (Sochi)- climber
Alexander Pjatnicyn (Rostov-Don)- coach
There will be 6 videocameras in the expedition. THe Incoma company will provide the TV bridge from the end of March. The Marsat company provides terminals and traffic for the team information. Iridium company also provides two terminals and traffic . THe company NTV+ provides the TV programs from the Base Camp on TV.
www.russianclimb.com 24.02.2004
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