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A Romanian on Mount Everest

Romanian mountain climber Horia Colibasanu on Tuesday morning managed to climb the worlds highest summit Everest in the Himalayas.

A Romanian on Mount Everest
A Romanian on Mount Everest

, 17.05.2017, 13:39

Colibasanu is not the first Romanian to have climbed the 8,848 meter summit but his achievement is notable because he has managed to do that without oxygen tanks and Sherpa guides. The first Romanian to have climbed the mountain was Constantin Lacatusu back in 1995.



Colibasanu approached the mountain on its northern side from Tibet and had to brave the elements during the last 12-hour leg of his trip from an altitude of 8300 meters up to the peak.



Horia Colibasanu, a 40 year-old dentist, is a member of the Alternative Sports Club based in Timisoara, western Romania, the club through which the project of the Everest ascension was run. He is believed to be the best Romanian climber today after having conquered 8 out of the world’s 14 peaks higher than 8,000 meters.



He has so far participated in 19 international expeditions. At the age of 27, in 2004, he went on the famous K2, the world’s second highest mountain (8,611m ) situated in Pakistan. He climbed K2 also without oxygen supplies and assistance. Until his Tuesday’s performance his climbing K2 used to be the number one achievement in the history of Romanian climbing.



Worth noting is that out of the 56 hundred expeditions on Everest less than 200 have been made without oxygen supplies.

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