Olympic medalist in Vancouver and triple world champion in biathlon Maxim Chudov spoke to about the security measures taken during the conquest of Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe.
Chudov has twice won the world championship relay and at the 2008 World Cup in Östersund he won the sprint. Today he is one of the leaders of the Bashkir branch of the Dynamo company and is a member of the executive committee of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU). In early August, he successfully climbed Elbrouz (5642 meters).
– Which is more difficult, going up or down, given the muscle groups rarely used in the second case?
– And that, and it’s not easy. On the way back you are already tired, so you need to carefully control your legs so that the “cats” do not catch on and you do not roll down the slope. We used to be taught how to fall properly and hold back if we couldn’t stand up, but that was only made automatic by professionals. When you go wild, you can hardly remember anything without enough practice. At this time there will be no time for “cats” with an ice ax, so it is better not to drop the case.
In any case, I still have a kind of muscle memory after sports. Sometimes I run, I cycle, so I can’t say the climb was difficult. Tired, of course, I had my head crushed, but that’s the norm with the lack of oxygen and altitude. The condition is slightly half-asleep, not everyone can tolerate it, but generally tolerable. 5642 meters is not much by climbing standards, at first glance. But if you think about it, the height is almost that of an airplane. With everyone who is with him, Chudov told .
Source : MatchTV
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