Uta Ibrahimi biting the gold medal she won in Kyrgyzstan |
The medal is attributed to the clinbing to Mount Lenin otherwise known as Ibn Sina (Avicenna). This peak rises to 7,134 meters in Gorno-Badakhshan on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and is the second-highest point of both countries.
"Imagine in every climb I get a medal, my neck may have been broken," wrote Ibrahimi.
Lenin Peak is the highest in the Trans-Alay range of Central Asia, and in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan and just Ismoil Somoni Peak is higher, of about 7,495 m above sea level.
Uta Ibrahimi after climbing the Mount Lenin |
Uta is best known for climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, becoming the first Kosovar woman to do so in 2017.