page_title: Jaan Künnap
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Jaan Künnap / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Eesti: Lenini mäetipp (7134 m) – sinimustvalge esimest korda 7000-sel mäel. Nii fotograaf kui ka isik fotol on Jaan Künnap.English: Lenin Peak (7134 m). First time when Estonian flag reached over 7000 m (at the time Estonia was still occupied and the use of Estonian flag was actually illegal; 1989 was the first year when the use of national flag once again became widespread). Man with a flag is Jaan Künnap (also a photographer). But the first time when Estonians reached to the top of Lenin Peak was already in 1965.
context_page_description: Jaan Künnap is an Estonian mountaineer, photographer, and sports coach.
context_section_description: Künnap went to school in Kose, as well as in Tallinn, where he has lived since 1969.
  In 1971–1994 he worked as a deep-sea diver on a rescue ship. During this time he logged over 3,000 hours of diving time and recorded depths of up to 80 m.
  He has climbed to the top of over 150 mountains. Künnap received the Snow Leopard award in 1987. In 1999, a film was made about him with the same name (Lumeleopard; 1999). He was the president of the Tallinn Alpinism Club between 1983 and 1988 and since 1999 he has led the mountaineering club that bears his name.
  He has climbed to the top of several seven-thousanders (and in the case of some of them, like Communism Peak, he has successfully summited several times). He has technically climbed over 8,000 m; however, he has not successfully reached the summit of an eight-thousander. During his climb of Cho Oyu, the eight-thousander he has climbed, he went above 8,000 m, but started coming down before reaching the top.
  Künnap has participated in over 50 photography exhibitions and has reached the podium in numerous photography competitions. He has written two books and served as a producer for several documentaries. Since 1998, he has worked as a photographer for the Tallinn City Museum. He has also added hundreds of photos to Wikipedia and was selected as the best Wikiphotograper of the Year in 2019 in Estonia.
caption: Jaan Künnap on top of Lenin Peak (7134 m)
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