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Valentyn Sypavin

Ukrainian mountaineer and ice climber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Valentyn Sypavin
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Valentyn Viktorovych Sypavin (born 3 August 1983, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian mountaineer and ice climber, who has summited Mount Everest six times. Following ten rope fixers, who summited on the evening of May 10, 2024, Sypavin became the first foreigner to summit, along with the legendary Sanu Sherpa, during the 2024 season on May 11, 2024 at 4:00 am. In 2013, Sypavin became the third in the overall UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup and came second in the UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships.

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Climbing career

Sypavin started ice climbing in 2008 when he began training and actively participating in competition ice climbing events. He also established several dry-tooling venues in Crimea.[1][2]

Sypavin later started working as a mountain guide and founded his own adventure company called Alpomania.[3]

He is a Guinness World Record holder in the highest attitude kayaking, which he did at 6370 meters in Atacama, Chile, on 4 January 2020.[4]

In 2022, Sypavin led the first Ukrainian Antarctic expedition to the Vinson Massif.[5]

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Personal life

Sypavin has worked as a fire service trainer,[6] and also used to work as a university teacher.

Rankings

Ice Climbing World Championships

2013 2015 2017
Lead246

Ice Climbing World Cup

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Overall 4 3 6 4 9 10-11
4,3rd place, bronze medalist(s),15,3rd place, bronze medalist(s),9 2nd place, silver medalist(s),3rd place, bronze medalist(s),6,6,4 4,6,-,7,6 6-8,2,8,4,-,5 14,4,-,9 4,17,5,28,17

Notable ascents

References

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