Denis Urubko

Denis Urubko Russian ????? ?????????? ?????? Denis Viktorovitch Ouroubko born July 29 1973 in Nevinnomyssk Russia is a Russian and Polish mountaineer He previously held Kazakh nationality from 1991 to 2012 In 2009 he became the fifteenth person to have climbed all 14 peaks over 8000m high In 2006 he won the speed climbing competition on Elbrus in 3 h 55 min 58 s for an ascent from Azau station to the summit ie 3250 meters It arrives almost 40 minutes ahead of the second He also won the Khan Tengri Mountain Festival where he made a round trip from the base camp at 4200 meters to the summit at 7010 meters in 12 hours and 21 minutes winning by 3 hours in advance He climbed 2 peaks of 8000 meters in winter Makalu in 2009 with Simone Moro and Gasherbrum II in 2011 with Cory Richards and Simone Moro He also opened up new routes on Cho Oyu Manaslu and Broad Peak He has successfully climbed 22 peaks over 8000 meters He is the recipient of the Snow Leopard award and the event record for having climbed the 5 7000m peaks of the former USSR in 42 days in 1999 With Adam Bielecki he led the rescue operation for Elisabeth Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz on January 27 2018 on Nanga Parbat Pakistan Climbing around 1200 meters in altitude at night and in difficult conditions in just eight hours the expedition enabled the French mountaineer to be rescued but had to give up the rescue of Mackiewicz who remained at around 7200 meters above sea level in the storm He climbs without artificial oxygen supply inspired by Reinhold Messner He decides to end his career and the extreme Himalayas in February 2020