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The cartagenero mountaineer Carlos Garranzo, which has the support of the Department of Sports City of Cartagena, last week met its goal of reaching the summit Korzhenevskaya peak of 7,105 meters, located in Tajikistan.

Garranzo left with three companions haciaTayikistán to start your adventure and after the relevant period of acclimatization by setting high camps, managed to reach the highest point delKorzhenevskaya.

The decline was complex and took longer than expected by the presence of fog, heavy ynevadas strong wind, which forced them to descend slowly and with extreme caution because visibility was low and the risk of major avalanches.

However, eventually all safely they reached Base elcampo three days after making summit.

The Korzhenevskaya Pico, along with Lenin Peak (7,134 m), Pico Ismail Samani (7,495 m), Peak Pobeda (7,439 m) yKhan Tengri (7,010 m), is part of a challenge is to climb the five highest peaks the former Soviet Union known as the Snow Leopard.

It is quite isolated mountains, located in the mountains of Pamir and Tien Shan, including Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, hard climb and highly variable weather, which together with its altitude makes them dangerous.

Garranzo, which is the municipal firefighter by profession, living in Cartagena for more than 30 years and has a bright mountaineering career.

It is the first Land of the Federation of Mountain Region of Murcia (FMRM) which in 2006 got up to the roof of the world, Mount Everest, with its 8,484 m.

He's trying to make a project of great prestige in the world of the mountain known as the Seven Summits, which is to reach the highest peak on each continent.

So far, it has already gotten up, in addition to Everest, which is the highest peak of the Asian continent, the highest peak in South America (Aconcagua, 6,961 m), North America (Denali, 6,168 m), Africa (Kilimanjaro, 5.149 m) and Europe (Elbrus, 5,642 m);

minus only the Oceania (Carstensz Pyramid, 4,884 m) and Antarctica (Mount Vinson, 4,897 m), less difficult but with a difficult economic cost of assuming.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena