Azerbaijani flag raised on Mount Everest
Baku, May 20 (AZERTAC). Murad Ashirly, a member of the Azerbaijani Mountaineering Federation and the “American Alpine Club”, has raised the flag of Azerbaijan on the Mount Everest.
On 19 May 2013 at 6:30 a.m. Nepal time, Murad Ashurly as part of an international team climbed the Mount Everest, the highest point of the world (8,848 meters) and set the flag of Azerbaijan there.
In a telephone conversation, Ashurly Murad said that the raging hurricane winds didn't leave the snow and the route above 8,600 meters, revealing sloping rock slabs, which required special care on the rise and descent.
Murad Ashurly currently lives and works in the United States. Over the past ten years Murad has made a successful ascent of the highest peak in Europe, North and South America: McKinley, Elbrus, Aconcagua, and he climbed onto the mountains of the Caucasus, Pamir, Andes, Central and North America.
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