Vadim Leontiev

Mountain guide, Odessa city
Specialization: climbing instructor.
Sports experience: master of sports in mountaineering.
Medical training: completed courses in first aid in the mountains in 2017 and 2019 at the Odessa SAR training center.

He made his first ascent in 1969.
USSR Champion and prize-winner of the USSR Championships in Ice Class Mountaineering (1983-1987).
Ukrainian Champion in the High-Altitude Technical Class.
Participant of Himalayan expeditions to Annapurna, Cho-oyu, Everest, Shishapangma, Manaslu, Lhotse. Organizer and director of mass sports events of the Odessa Alpine Club in the Carpathian Mountains, Crimea, and the Caucasus. (1995 – 2007)

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Since 2006, he has been a guide on trekking and mountaineering routes in the Caucasus, Nepal, Tibet, Alaska, Ecuador, Africa, and Turkey as part of the Mountains for All program.

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