ARMENIAN MOUNTAINEERS CLIMB ELBRUS TO MARK 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF GREAT
PATRIOTIC WAR VICTORY
YEREVAN, MAY 10. ARMINFO. Armenian mountaineers Hayk Tonoyan, Tigran
Nersisyants and Lev Sarkisov have taken part in the mass ascent of
Elbrus, the Caucasus, held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of
the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), reports INTERFAX.
Some 400 people from Russia, Belarus, France, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria
took part in the action but not all of them managed to climb the
Western and Eastern peaks of Elbrus (5,642 m and 5,621 m
respectively).