2002
PEACE CLIMB TO PAKISTAN'S KARAKORUM
RANGE
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Update
3/25/2002: You might have noticed in the last week
some headline stories where 7 French mountain climbers
went "missing" while attempting Mount Alaca
in the Ala range of mountains. They were found safe
after being found by a combination of army and
non-governmental forces. Yes Tunc, and his friends
with AKUT were there to help out again, all in a day's
work... For more on Tunc see below... |
Tunc
Findik joined Gary
Guller's Everest
Expedition 2001 "Anything is Possible" Expedition.
Joining such Everest Summiters as Mike
Trueman and Kipa Sherpa this expedition
was a strong and very experienced expedition
on Nepal side of the mountain in Spring 2001. Tunc
Findik is a highly experienced ice, rock and mixed
climber. He has opened more than 60 new routes in the
Turkish ranges, these being first overall ascents,
first winter ascents and first Turkish ascents. Tunc
reached the Summit of Everest in Spring of 2001 as a
member of Gary
Guller's Everest
Expedition 2001 "Anything is Possible" Expedition.
He
joined us for the 2001 Ararat Peace climb.
The climbers, all who have reached the Summit of Everest,
climbed the
North Side of Ararat which in
modern history (the last 1000 years !) has not been open to
foreign climbers except on very rare cases.
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Tunk
has successful summits of Khon Tengri (7,010m)
in Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan; Peak Lenin (7,134m) in
the Pamirs, Kyrgyzstan; Elbrus (5,642m, twice)
and Kazbedk (5,047m) in the Russian Caucasus
Mountains; a winter ascent of Damavand Peak
(5,671m) in Iran; a winter ascent of Mr. Ararat
(5,137m) in Turkey; Mont Blanc and Ecrins
Massifs in the European Alps; and various climbs
in Scotland and Bulgaria. Tunc became the
first Turkish climber to summit Everest from the
Nepali side. |
Married
and living in Ankara, Turkey, Tunc is the operations
leader of the Ankara Branch of the AKUT (Turkish
Search and Rescue Society). He works as a sports
instructor at the university in Ankara and writes
guide books to the Turkish mountains.
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