Igor Azaryev "Unbelievable Adventures of Krasnoyarsk mountain climbers. 2021"

Unbelievable AdventuresВ of Krasnoyarsk mountain climbers. 2021
Igor Azaryev

Unbelievable Adventures ofKrasnoyarsk mountain climbers This book presents the memories of mountaineers about their adventures in the mountains. The author recorded these stories at party and meetings. All of the climbers’ adventures, according to them, actually happened to them.

Unbelievable AdventuresВ of Krasnoyarsk mountain climbers

2021

Igor Azaryev

© Igor Azaryev, 2022

ISBNВ 978-5-0056-0541-2

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MY ANGEL

The angel spoke toВ theВ man:

– Do you want me to show you your life?

– I do,» answered the man.

The angel lifted him above the ground, and the man saw his whole life and two pairs ofВ footprints walking besideВ him.

– Who is that beside me?

– I am the one who accompanies you all your life.

– Why is it that sometimes you can only see one pair of footprints?

– These are the hardest times in your life,» says the angel.

– And what, did you leave me in the most difficult moments?

– No, I carried you in my arms… – answered the angel quietly.

May your angel always be there forВ you.

PrefaceВ Or KRASNOYARSK PEOPLE ARE LIKEВ THAT

How do we imagine aВ Siberian: he is aВ man who drinks aВ bucket ofВ vodka, then bathes inВ an ice-hole and after all that fights aВ bear.

And how do we imagine aВ Siberian woman: she is aВ woman who stops aВ bear on the run, enters the taiga burning, and then receives aВ prize inВ aВ beauty contest (as, however, women all over Russia).

Krasnoyarsk man in particular stand out. Siberian character, and nature has given them an amazing phenomenon – Krasnoyarsk Pillars – the rocks near the city. This combination of rocks and the Siberian character was the foundation of Krasnoyarsk school of climbers and mountaineers, one of the strongest in the world.

.Pillars – the result of supervolcanic eruptions in Eastern Siberia, which occurred about 450 million years ago.

Krasnoyarsk is the only major city on the outskirts ofВ which there are magnificent rocks. Therefore, the people ofВ Krasnoyarsk could not help but take up rock climbing.

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The LegendВ ofВ the Black Mountaineer

Once when IВ was inВ the badge group at Elbrus alp, we sang aВ В«scaryВ» song around the campfire, and there were these words:

В«You come out ofВ your tent at night,

AВ shadow flits byВ the side,

And your soul goes inВ your heels

At the damned altitude.В»

The old and experienced instructor remarked that there was no need toВ joke, and told us the legend ofВ the Black Mountaineer.

This legend has long been circulating inВ the Caucasus. So, aВ long time ago two friends went toВ the mountain routes. They had done many routes together, and they did not go toВ the mountains with others. And one day they went toВ aВ difficult and high mountain. The route was difficult, the weather did not please them. So, when they were not far from the summit, one ofВ them felt unwell and asked his friend toВ let him down.

But the friend left him: – I’m going to run to the top and come back to you.

The way toВ the top was difficult, he lingered and when he came down toВ his friend, he gave no sign ofВ life. And he howled with grief.

The Mountain Spirit put aВ curse on him: you will walk alone on the trails and bring people misfortune, and people will turn away from you. Everyone who sees you, misfortune will happen toВ you, and if he meets your gaze, he willВ die.

Since then, the Black mountaineer began toВ avoid people, hiding inВ wild gorges, but it is difficult toВ live alone, and he looked at people from aВ distance. Sometimes people noticed something black inВ the distance, but when they approached, they saw only traces ofВ mountain boots.

And he began toВ walk alone on the trails, blackened byВ the sun, lost weight, overgrown, and was terrible. And there was no rest forВ him.

Since then, inВ the mountains began toВ happen trouble: the food is lost, then at night you can hear footsteps inВ the bivouac, sometimes mumbling, inaudible conversation, sometimes wild distant shouting.

And the mountain spirit has put another curse: when you fail, you will not be killed, but another climber will fail and die instead ofВ you.

Legends and rumors about the Black Mountaineer have been wandering inВ the Caucasus for aВ long time, someone saw him, someone heard his footsteps inВ the silence ofВ the night, his murmurs.

There was aВ silence, coldness reeked from the mountain.

– Have you ever met the Black Mountaineer?

The instructor thought for aВ moment and continued the story:

– Once we were doing the Bizengii Wall and pitched our tent on the platform below the main summit.

It was a quiet night and suddenly we woke up to the sound of footsteps near the tent. Then we heard heavy breathing, some mumbling, then fussing near the primus, and retreating footsteps. Horror gripped us, and we lay still. When the sounds died down, I looked out of the tent – no one was there, only the mountain peaks were dimly visible in the moonlight.

There was a sense of unease all around us. The next morning we discovered our food was missing and we noticed extraneous mountain boot prints that led in a direction we hadn’t gone. We quickly climbed to the top and began our descent. We had trouble on the way down: rocks would fly overhead, one of us would fall, and I hurt my arm in the fall. I never went to the Bisengiya Wall again.

Everybody felt uncomfortable and we sat inВ silence for aВ long time.

IВ knew aВ climber who once told me that when they had hiked toВ Erzog Peak, just before they reached the summit slab, someone pushed his arm and he nearly fell down. They immediately went down as aВ matter ofВ course.

Other strange things are also noted: now stones suddenly fall from above, then eagles circle inВ one place with alarming peck, then mountain goats rush frightenedly through the gorge. IВ have not personally met the Black Mountaineer, but who knows, anything can happen inВ the mountains.

Hunters atВ rest

(From the series Hunting Stories)