Well, come on, tell me.
So we came to the wall of Yagnob.
Raikhan: And where is this wall?
In the Fann Mountains in the Pamirs.
And there are all kinds of dushmans and terrorists there.
Zakharov: But at that time it was safe everywhere in Pamir. And what route did you take, the Efimov one?
Yes, were you there?
We were there in 1982, and when were you there?
Two years earlier.
Our team was rather weak, the route was purely rocky, and among the climbers I was the only one at first, the rest were from the category of stompers, but the group had been going together for a long time and worked well with the rope. Then the team was strengthened by Alexander Verba, a strong climber, and weakened by the head of the field camp rescue team. The last time he went on a route of the third category was about three years ago. And he wanted to climb the sixth and that was it.
Well, the route we went without problems, and before the top of the mountain this happened. There before the top was a smooth wall of about 40m. The wall is smooth, almost without hooks, but with a slight slope, so it was possible to pass on it in special rock sneakers. I climbed it, and Verba insured me.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, I passed it too, but it did not end very well for me