Valery Khrichtchatyi
20th-century Kazakh mountaineer
Died aged 41CapricornSoviet Union
Biography
Valery Nikolaevich Khrichtchatyi (Russian: Валерий Никола́евич Хрищатый; December 23, 1951 – August 4, 1993) was a Kazakh mountaineer. He made more than forty ascents above 7,000 meters (23,000 feet), including a string of hard winter firsts in the Pamirs and Tien Shan. He climbed Everest by a new south pillar route, Kanchenjunga without oxygen and with only one bivouac, and a new route on the west side of Dhaulagiri (8,172 meters).
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Awards & honours (3)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Order "For Personal Courage"
- Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
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- Valery Khrichtchatyi died on August 4, 1993 at the age of 41.
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- Valery Khrichtchatyi was born on December 23, 1951.
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- Valery Khrichtchatyi was born in Almaty.
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- Valery Khrichtchatyi is a citizen of Soviet Union, Kazakhstan.
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