A project of escalation that will lead the young Donostiarras Mikel Chinchureta e Imanol Muro to the remote lands of the Kyrguistan It has become creditor to The scholarship Joxe Takoloendowed with 4,000 euros.
Little known mountain range
The proposal of Txintxurreta and Muro is destined for the region of Djangart. It is a subcordillera of Tien Shan (Heavenly mountains) located on the border between Kyrguistan and China that has 5,000 -meter tops that have not been crowned and has as its main attraction for these two young people the little information about it.
“It is an area to which many mountain expeditions are not going so the information we have been able to collect about the region is scarce. It is one more reason to go there is especially interesting for us,” they said in the presentation of the project at the City of Azpeitia.
first Basque expedition
Mikel Txintxurreta and Imanol Muro will be the first Basque climbers in venturing in the Djangart area.
The expedition will begin the July 26 And the August 21practically a month later. In the information search work they have collected data on a dozen expeditions, including a Catalan.
Lack of information
The information they have collected has helped them to have an overview of what will be in Djangart, but they believe that, once there, they will have more than one surprise.
“There are hardly any detail images of the mountains in the area. We have used images of Google Earth To study the mountain range and get an idea of what awaits us, but they don’t give us much reliability. In fact, we can meet paredes huge that in the general views we have appears to be simple or more small”.
Summits and new roads
This lack of information makes them open to the opportunities that can be found on the ground. In fact, the two young Donostiarras, friends from childhood and colleagues and climbing on numerous occasions in the Pyrenees, the Alps and in Mountains of Peru and Bolivia, will not travel with a closed plan.
“We have some objectives but we will also see what awaits us there. Our idea is open roads In mountains that no one has climbed before or, if they have been crowned, do it by a different route, as well as search Ascents To walls that seem attractive once we are in front of them, ”they explained in their appearance before the press.
Alpine and autonomous style
What are clear is the way they will try to achieve those objectives. Txintxurreta and wall will bet on climbing to Alpine style And autonomously, without extra support of sherpas and guides once they are in the area that will serve as a base camp.
To this is added another objective: document the expedition with data and photographs in order to facilitate the work to those other mountaineers who choose to venture in the mountain range later.
Route to the base camp
The first challenge It will be to reach the base camp, a complicated route through a depopulated territory and on bad roads aboard old and resistant trucks Sovietsin which they will also have to wade rivers.
Once at the base camp, they must exceed 800 meters of Slope To carry the material to the enclave that will serve as a passage door to the following phases of their challenge.
Three valleys to explore
That point gives three access valles different, in which different objectives have indicated. In fact, the work plan that has been marked contemplates five days of climbing for each of the valleys, with two rest days in the base campaign Among them, all conditioned by weather conditions that are planned variable and in which the appearance of the snow is not ruled out.
Acclimatization and objectives
The climbs that will be carried out in the first valley will help them acclimatization for the challenges they will face in the remaining two valleys.
In the second valley, for example, a new way have been marked as a new way in the peak Ilumination (5,040 meters), while the challenge in the third valley will be ascending to the peak Letaveta (5,285 meters) for its north face, something that no mountaineer has achieved to date.
Challenges to discover
These goals, as indicated again and again in the press rue, will be accompanied by Other climbs And of the opening of new roads taking advantage of the surprises that, without a doubt, the unknown Djangart valleys will bring the two young Donostiarras climbers.
