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Birth name | Valentyn Viktorovych Sypavin | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Kharkiv, Ukraine | 3 August 1983|||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Professional climber | |||||||||||||||||
Website | Alpomania | |||||||||||||||||
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Valentyn Viktorovych Sypavin (born 3 August 1983, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian mountaineer and ice climber, who has summited Mount Everest five times, and who in 2013 became the third in the overall UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup and came second in the UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships.
Sypavin started ice climbing in 2008 when he began training and actively participating in competition ice climbing events. He also established several dry-tooling venues in Crimea. [1] [2]
Sypavin later started working as a mountain guide and founded his own adventure company called Alpomania. [3]
He is a Guinness World Record holder in the highest attitude kayaking, which he did at 6370 meters in Atacama, Chile, on 4 January 2020. [4]
In 2022, Sypavin led the first Ukrainian Antarctic expedition to the Vinson Massif. [5]
Sypavin has worked as a fire service trainer, [6] and also used to work as a university teacher.
2013 | 2015 | 2017 | |
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Lead | 2 | 4 | 6 |
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
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Overall | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 10-11 |
4,,15,,9 | ,,6,6,4 | 4,6,-,7,6 | 6-8,2,8,4,-,5 | 14,4,-,9 | 4,17,5,28,17 |
The highest altitude kayaking is 6,370 m (20,898.91 ft) and was achieved by Valentyn Sypavin (Ukraine) in Atacama, Chile, on 4 January 2020