
Cyprus mountaineering is having a moment; while one team successfully reached the dangerous Belukha peak in July, another readies to climb one of the world’s highest peaks, both pushing themselves to the limits of endurance.
Cyprus-based Andrei Novikov and Alex Larin, led by the latter, reached the summit of mount Belukha in Kazakhstan on July 26, placing a stone they had carried there all the way from Curium on the