Crimean rescuers congratulated the legend of Soviet mountaineering, «Star of the Mountains», «Snow Leopard» Elvira Nasonova

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Rescuers of the Alushta emergency rescue team «Crimea-SPAS», members of the KRO «ROSSOYUZSPAS» congratulated the famous athlete, the legend of female mountaineering, the «Star of the Mountains» Elvira Timofeevna Nasonova on her birthday.

It was Elvira Nasonova who created the first section of mountaineering and rock climbing in Alushta, being her permanent coach. She has more than 50 ascents of the highest category of complexity. More than 30 times a Crimean woman took a personal part in rescue operations to help those in distress in the mountains. In the world practice of the climbing rescue service, not a single case of a woman rescuer working in such a position has been registered.

According to the set of perfect ascents, she fulfilled the female standards of the USSR master of sports in mountaineering 7 times. In 1971, she completed the male norms of MS. The only woman climber who was awarded the title of «Snow Leopard» three times.

Alushta rescuers have maintained friendly good relations with Elvira Timofeevna for many years. Her achievements in mountaineering and rescue work serve as an example for employees in their work. Rescuers sincerely wish Elvira Timofeevna good health, well-being, good luck, kindness and joy— reported in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Crimea.

«Snow Leopard» is an official and extremely rare title in mountaineering. To assign it, it was necessary to climb all four seven-thousanders of the former USSR: the peaks of Communism, Lenin, Pobeda, E. Korzhenevskaya.

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