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Gora Probeda: Mission Impossible

Matthias Mayr and Matthias Haunholder are two ski freeride specialists who together discover unknown terrain in still untouched nature for the friends of ski touring. After their last shoot on Onekotan Island - the island belongs to the northern Kuril group, which in turn starts at the tip of the peninsula of the Kamchatka region and stretches all the way to Japan - they have identified their next adventure while flying home: the Gora Probeda in Siberia.

 

In the middle of northeastern Siberia, the highest mountain of the Chersky Mountains rises 3,003 meters above sea level, it is called Gora Probeda ("Gora" is the Russian word for "mountain"). It is the goal of Matthias Mayr and Matthias Haunholder. 1,300 kilometers from the nearest helicopter or hospital, far from any modern civilization, the journey is a true "Mission Impossible". The nearest village, Sasyr, is about 40 kilometers east of here by air, but on the ground this becomes several hundred kilometers, since there are no roads or highways here, only the icy tundra.

The trip to Gora Probeda in Siberia's northeast meant for the two...

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