Kazakh Climbers ascend 14 of the World’s Highest Peaks

    Almaty Akim Akhmetzhan Yessimov has met with a group of Kazakh alpinists to congratulate them on completing their pursuit to climb the 14 highest peaks in the world.
    After their expedition to Everest in 1997, the country’s top mountain climbers decided to then climb all eight thousand-meter summits across the Earth as a team.
    Kazakhstan is the first country in the world to do so, they claim.
    Mountaineers including Denis Urubko, Maksut Zhumayev and Vassily Pivtsov scaled the 14 peaks.
    In terms of the number of ascents to summits without supplementary oxygen, Kazakhstan’s national team is a world leader, Caspionet said.