The Kazakh Everest Team which includes major Maksut Zhumayev, instructor of the Mountain Training Center of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, and Anar Burasheva, climber and sky runner, conquered Mount Everest (8,848 meters), Kazinform News Agency reports.
As the team’s press service informed citing Seven Summit Treks company, the team reached the peak May 12 at 07:25am Nepal time.
Due to extreme weather conditions, like snowstorm at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, most of the expeditions turned back. Five countries’ alpinists only managed to reach Everest. Among them are our Kazakhstanis Anar Burasheva, first Kazakh woman who ascended the highest peak of the Earth, and merited Kazakh climber Maksut Zhumayev, who conquered Everest for the third time, the press service of the expedition said.
