Former world champion and Olympic medalist in Vancouver Maxim Chudov spoke to about the dangers of climbing Europe’s highest peak.
Chudov has twice won the world championship relay and at the 2008 World Cup in Östersund he won the sprint. Today, the former biathlete is one of the leaders of the Bashkir branch of the Dynamo company and is a member of the executive committee of the RBU. In early August, he successfully climbed Elbrouz (5642 meters).
– There was a section of the course where we walked with confidence, there is a risk of falling. But in the Caucasus Mountains, many more people die, not because of the relief, but because of bad weather. In poor visibility conditions, you may run off the trail and come across a split or crack. By the way, not all the dead can be reached. The glacier melts slowly and sends back the “snowdrops” later. According to locals, they sometimes even find remnants of war, Chudov told .
Source : MatchTV
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