page_title: Valery Khrichtchatyi
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Valery Khrichtchatyi / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: English: The plaque on the house in Almaty, Kazakhstan where lived Valery Khrichtchatyi
context_page_description: Valery Nikolaevich Khrichtchatyi was a mountaineer from Kazakhstan. He made more than forty ascents above 7,000 meters, 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.
context_section_description: In 2003 Khrichtchatyi’s name was given to the mountain pass after Anatoliy Dzhuliy and his team of set a new route to the pass that connects Druzhba glacier located on the upper side of Yuzhniy Inylchak and Tugbelchi glacier (China).
  In 2017, the Almaty Mountaineering Federation decided to rename Yoshkar-Ola Peak into Valery Khrichtchatyi Peak.
caption: 15 Kurmangazy, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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