Valery Nikolaevich Khrichtchatyi (Russian: Валерий Никола́евич Хрищатый; born December 23, 1951, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan – died August 4, 1993, Khan-Tengri, Tien-Shan, Kazakhstan) was a mountaineer from Kazakhstan. He made more than forty ascents above 7,000 meters (23,000 feet), including a string of hard winter firsts in the Pamirs and Tien Shan. He climbed Everest by a new south pillar route, Kanchenjunga without oxygen and with only one bivouac, and a new route on the west side of Dhaulagiri (8,172 meters).
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23 December 1951 (age 73)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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