10:17, 25 июля 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Anastasia MOKRENKO
climber Yuri Kurmachev died when trying to climb Lenin Peak in . Russian media reported.
According to them, the 68-year-old athlete died on July 23 at an altitude of . There is no exact information on causes of the tragedy. He had climbed the peak 8 times.
Yuri Kurmachev is an experienced athlete. In 1985, he got the title «Snow Leopard» for climbing all five seven thousandths peaks of the . He planned to go into the mountains in the company of two more athletes aged above 60.