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20, August

Kazahstan Expedition summited Gasherbrum II (8035m)!

Sergei Bogomolov (honoured master of sport, Saratov) had made 2 ascents during this expedition one was on Gasherbrum I, August 14 and also of Gasherbrum II August 20 ! He succeeded to do Hidden-peak from the thirol attemts only, he had to spend most of time in BC because of snowfall and strong wind.

Sergei Bogomolov became the first Russian to ascend these both 8-thousands. Now, he had been on 8 of 14 highest of the world.

15, August

Kazahstan Expedition summited Gasherbrum I (8068m)!

16, July

Denis Urubko informed (www.risk.ru):
In the morning we descended from Camp I at 3am. The plateau between Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II is situated at the height of 5700m. We draged a lot of stuff. The way through the icefall is well and it took 7 hours to reach Camp I. It was snowing in the night but in the morning the weather got better.

28, June (http://everestnews.com):

The Kazaks have arrived in Islamabad, along with their Russian friends. Leader of the Expedition Mr. Ervand Illyinskiy, who is also the coach as well as the organizer of the Kazak members of the Expedition is a very good climber. He has climbed about four eight-thousand meter high peaks including Everest in 1990. All members from Kazakhstan are young and are in their twenties, but are very good and strong climbers and all have climbed Mount Everest once.

23, June

Boris Sedusov leaves Moscow for Pakistan...