page_title: Vladimir Lysenko
section_title: Rafting
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Lysenko / Traveling / Rafting
caption_attribution_description: English: Vladimir Lysenko in Ulan Bator during his Around-the-World trip in a Car. This photo is for page "Vladimir Lysenko" in Wikipedia Русский: Владимир Лысенко в Улан-Баторе во время своей кругосветки на автомобиле. Эта фотография - для страницы "Лысенко, Владимир Иванович" в русскоязычной Википедии
context_page_description: Vladimir Ivanovich Lysenko is a Russian academic and world traveller. He set several Guinness World Records related to high-altitude river rafting.
context_section_description: Between 1991 and 1992, Lysenko became the first man to raft on rivers flowing down all of the world's eight-thousanders—the 14 mountains with peaks higher than 8,000 meters (26,000 ft) above sea level.
  In 1996, Lysenko became the first man to raft down the highest peak of every continent (except the Antarctic), as well as the highest peak of Oceania.
  While rafting down Mount Everest in Nepal in April and May 1991, Lysenko set the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude difference travelled in a rafting trip: a descent of 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) from Dughla on the Khumbu Glacier (4,600 metres or 15,100 feet above sea level) to Chatara (100 metres or 330 feet above sea level).  In September 1996, he set the Guinness World Record for high-altitude rafting with a 5,600 meters (18,400 ft) start on the Eastern Rong Chu River on Mount Everest; the previous record of 5,334 meters (17,500 ft) had been set in September 1976 by the Mike-Jones team of England.
  Vladimir rafted also on mountain sources of Amazon River and the Nile, kayaked on Yukon River. He rafted in 94 countries (including Nepal, China, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, etc.).
caption: Vladimir Lysenko in Ulan Bator; Mongolia
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