Georgian mountaineers conquer sky-high peaks
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The Georgian flag is flying 7,000 metres high after Georgian mountaineers climbed two of the highest peaks in Central Asia.
Six budding Georgian mountaineers successfully reached the summit of the Tian Shan and Pamir mountains after completing a route graded as "the most difficult technically”.
The climbers spent two months completing the expedition in Kyrgyzstan, where they climbed a number of peaks with the highest point reaching 7,134 metres.
The alpinists have since returned home and founded the United Federation of Alpinists of Georgia.
Mountaineer Archil Badriashvili said the Federation would involve experienced, well-known climbers as well as young mountaineers and all generations would go climbing together.
A team of Georgian mountaineers became the first group of climbers to conquer a 6,425-metre peak in the Nepalese Himalayas this month, after a nine-day ascent that crowned their long expedition in the famed global hub of peak climbing.
The conquering of a Himalayan peak by Georgian climbers Giorgi Tepnadze, Bakar Gelashvili and Archil Badriashvili has been named among the most notable ascents of the past year by the prestigious Piolets d'Or awards.
Georgian mountain climbers Archil Badriashvili, Baqar Gelashvili and Giorgi Tepnadze have been selected in the list of significant annual ascents by the international Piolets d'Or award, recognising their 2019 effort on two Pangpoche peaks in western Nepal.