Nasuh Mahruki
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Ali Nasuh Mahruki is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary film producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest
and was the first ever Turkish
person to climb the Seven Summits
.
Ali Nasuh Mahruki was born in Istanbul. He has completed his primary school and high school education in Şişli Terakki Lisesi. He has graduated from Bilkent University Management Faculty in 1992. In 2004 he has graduated from National Security Academy. He is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and motivational speaker. As a professional sportsman, he has excelled in various outdoor sports such as mountaineering, climbing, caving, paragliding, scuba diving, motor sports, sailing and cycling.
He has started mountaineering when he was 20 and high altitude climbing at 24. When he was 26, after completing the ascents of five 7,000 meter peaks in Pamir and Tien Shan mountains, he became one of the few western climbers who are given the prestigious Snow Leopard title by the Russian Mountaineering Federation. It is not yet repeated by another Turkish climber. At the age of 27, he became the first Turkish and the first Muslim climber in the world who has climbed Mount Everest. When he was 28, he completed the Seven Summits project, which is climbing the highest peaks of each continent and among 45 climbers, he became the youngest climber in the world to do so. He made the highest solo ascent of Turkey on 8201 m high Mount Cho Oyu, the 6th highest mountain in the world. He climbed 8516 m high Mount Lhotse, the 4th highest mountain in the world. He climbed 8611 m Mount K2, the second highest and according to many, the most difficult and dangerous mountain of the world. This ascent is not yet repeated by Turkish climbers also. All these 8,000 m climbs were first Turkish ascents and last three were without supplementary Oxygen.
He has made long overland motorbike tours in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet and some of Europe.
He is making motivational speeches on subjects like leadership, team building, target orientation, persevarence, risk management and self actualization. He has also taught on these subjects at a university. He has written articles on various magazines and newspapers and also made documentaries on various TV channels.
He is the co-founder and the president of AKUT Search and Rescue Association. AKUT is a volunteer based search and rescue team. Nasuh Mahruki has founded AKUT in 1996 with a group of his mountain climber friends. It became the one and only NGO that has organized on search and rescue, before the big Marmara Earthquake that hit Golcuk and killed approximately 18,000 people on August 17, 1999. AKUT volunteers rescued 220 people under the collapsed structures. They were so effective and helpful for the victims during those very difficult days, Turkish people has chosen AKUT as the most trusted entity of Turkey. Today there are more than 20 AKUT units and more than 1,000 volunteers all over Turkey and until today 852 people have either rescued or moved to safe environments by AKUT.
Nasuh Mahruki is also the co-founder of Common Purpose Association of Turkey and he is a member of UGSAD (National Security and Strategic Research Association), TMOK (National Olympic Commity of Turkey), SAD (Underwater Research Association) and Travellers Club of Turkey.
His books published in Turkish are; “Diary of an Alpinist”, “First Turk on Everest”, “In Search of a Dream”, “Roads of Asia, Himalayas, and Beyond”; “Earth Diary”; “Motherland is Loved by Actions not by Empty Words”.
, Turkey
. He is in fifth generation descendant of Admiral Ali Pasha, commander of the Ottoman
navy during Sultan
Mahmud II
. Ali Pasha was burned to death in his admiral ship during an attack after successfully controlling the uprising
of the ethnic islanders against Ottoman Empire on the Aegean
island Chios
on March 23, 1822. Thus Nasuh’s family name Mahruki, which means, "burnt" in Ottoman Turkish
.
After finishing high school at Şişli Terakki High School in Istanbul in 1987, Mahruki attended the School of Business Administration at Bilkent University
in Ankara
, and graduated in 1992. During his time at the university, he was introduced to mountain climbing in the university climbing club and later became club president. At the age of 20, he developed a passion for various outdoor sports. He made the first paragliding
flight over Mount Erciyes
, climbed up the Great Demirkazık mountain's north wall, and dove into the underground waters of the Altınbeşik and Kırkgözler Caves.
(Khan Tengri
, Lenin Peak
, Peak Korzhenevskaya
, Communism Peak and Peak Pobeda
), which are all over 7,000 metres high. This achievement gained him the honorific title "Snow Leopard
", awarded by the Russian Climbing Federation. This recognition led him to his high altitude mountaineering career.
Mahruki summited Mount Everest (8,848 m.) on May 15, 1995, being the first ever Turkish and Muslim
person to do so. In 1996, he completed the climbing of Seven Summits in seven continents (Everest, Aconcagua
, Vinson Massif
, Kilimanjaro
, McKinley
, Elbrus
and Kosciuszko
), being the youngest person to do so.
In 1997, he climbed Cho Oyu
(8,201 m) solo, setting a Turkish record. He next ascended Lhotse
(8,516 m) without an oxygen tank in 1998 and climbed the very dangerous and difficult K2
(8,611 m).
Nasuh travels a lot collecting data for his books and documentaries. He is the president of AKUT, a voluntary search-and-rescue organization based in Istanbul he co-founded in 1996. AKUT rushes to outdoor accidents and major natural disasters all over the world, like the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, Nantou - Tayvan earthquake, Gujarat - India earthquake, Bam - Iran earthquake, Mozambique flood, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
.
Mahruki published four books and many articles about his outdoor challenges and travels all around the world. Among his other outdoor activities are climbing, scuba diving
, paragliding, sailing, caving
, off-roading
, motorbike and cycling.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
and was the first ever Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
person to climb the Seven Summits
Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents. Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first postulated as such and achieved on April 30, 1985 by Richard Bass .-Definition:...
.
Ali Nasuh Mahruki was born in Istanbul. He has completed his primary school and high school education in Şişli Terakki Lisesi. He has graduated from Bilkent University Management Faculty in 1992. In 2004 he has graduated from National Security Academy. He is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and motivational speaker. As a professional sportsman, he has excelled in various outdoor sports such as mountaineering, climbing, caving, paragliding, scuba diving, motor sports, sailing and cycling.
He has started mountaineering when he was 20 and high altitude climbing at 24. When he was 26, after completing the ascents of five 7,000 meter peaks in Pamir and Tien Shan mountains, he became one of the few western climbers who are given the prestigious Snow Leopard title by the Russian Mountaineering Federation. It is not yet repeated by another Turkish climber. At the age of 27, he became the first Turkish and the first Muslim climber in the world who has climbed Mount Everest. When he was 28, he completed the Seven Summits project, which is climbing the highest peaks of each continent and among 45 climbers, he became the youngest climber in the world to do so. He made the highest solo ascent of Turkey on 8201 m high Mount Cho Oyu, the 6th highest mountain in the world. He climbed 8516 m high Mount Lhotse, the 4th highest mountain in the world. He climbed 8611 m Mount K2, the second highest and according to many, the most difficult and dangerous mountain of the world. This ascent is not yet repeated by Turkish climbers also. All these 8,000 m climbs were first Turkish ascents and last three were without supplementary Oxygen.
He has made long overland motorbike tours in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet and some of Europe.
He is making motivational speeches on subjects like leadership, team building, target orientation, persevarence, risk management and self actualization. He has also taught on these subjects at a university. He has written articles on various magazines and newspapers and also made documentaries on various TV channels.
He is the co-founder and the president of AKUT Search and Rescue Association. AKUT is a volunteer based search and rescue team. Nasuh Mahruki has founded AKUT in 1996 with a group of his mountain climber friends. It became the one and only NGO that has organized on search and rescue, before the big Marmara Earthquake that hit Golcuk and killed approximately 18,000 people on August 17, 1999. AKUT volunteers rescued 220 people under the collapsed structures. They were so effective and helpful for the victims during those very difficult days, Turkish people has chosen AKUT as the most trusted entity of Turkey. Today there are more than 20 AKUT units and more than 1,000 volunteers all over Turkey and until today 852 people have either rescued or moved to safe environments by AKUT.
Nasuh Mahruki is also the co-founder of Common Purpose Association of Turkey and he is a member of UGSAD (National Security and Strategic Research Association), TMOK (National Olympic Commity of Turkey), SAD (Underwater Research Association) and Travellers Club of Turkey.
His books published in Turkish are; “Diary of an Alpinist”, “First Turk on Everest”, “In Search of a Dream”, “Roads of Asia, Himalayas, and Beyond”; “Earth Diary”; “Motherland is Loved by Actions not by Empty Words”.
Early life
He was born on May 21, 1968 in IstanbulIstanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. He is in fifth generation descendant of Admiral Ali Pasha, commander of the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
navy during Sultan
Sultan
Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...
Mahmud II
Mahmud II
Mahmud II was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. He was born in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, the son of Sultan Abdulhamid I...
. Ali Pasha was burned to death in his admiral ship during an attack after successfully controlling the uprising
Chios Massacre
The Chios Massacre refers to the slaughter of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822. Greeks from neighbouring islands arrived on Chios and encouraged the Chians to join the struggle for independence. In response, Ottoman...
of the ethnic islanders against Ottoman Empire on the Aegean
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
island Chios
Chios
Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...
on March 23, 1822. Thus Nasuh’s family name Mahruki, which means, "burnt" in Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish language
The Ottoman Turkish language or Ottoman language is the variety of the Turkish language that was used for administrative and literary purposes in the Ottoman Empire. It borrows extensively from Arabic and Persian, and was written in a variant of the Perso-Arabic script...
.
After finishing high school at Şişli Terakki High School in Istanbul in 1987, Mahruki attended the School of Business Administration at Bilkent University
Bilkent University
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...
in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, and graduated in 1992. During his time at the university, he was introduced to mountain climbing in the university climbing club and later became club president. At the age of 20, he developed a passion for various outdoor sports. He made the first paragliding
Paragliding
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure...
flight over Mount Erciyes
Mount Erciyes
Mount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching...
, climbed up the Great Demirkazık mountain's north wall, and dove into the underground waters of the Altınbeşik and Kırkgözler Caves.
Mountaineering career
Between 1992 and 1994, Mahruki climbed the five highest former Soviet mountains in AsiaAsia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
(Khan Tengri
Khan Tengri
Khan Tengri is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. It is located on the China—Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan border, east of lake Issyk Kul. Its geologic elevation is , but its glacial cap rises to...
, Lenin Peak
Lenin Peak
Lenin Peak , rises to in Gorno-Badakhshan on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-highest point of both countries. It is considered one of the easiest 7,000 m peaks in the world to climb and it has by far the most ascents of any 7,000 m or higher peak on earth, with every...
, Peak Korzhenevskaya
Peak Korzhenevskaya
Peak Korzhenevskaya is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. It is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" in the territory of theformer Soviet Union. It is named after Evgenia Korzhenevskaya, the wife of Russiangeographer Nikolai L...
, Communism Peak and Peak Pobeda
Peak Pobeda
Jengish Chokusu is the highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain system at . It lies on the Kyrgyzstan-China border, in the Kakshaal Too, the highest part of the Tien Shan, southeast of lake Issyk Kul.- Names :...
), which are all over 7,000 metres high. This achievement gained him the honorific title "Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard award
The Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. It is still recognised in the Commonwealth of Independent States...
", awarded by the Russian Climbing Federation. This recognition led him to his high altitude mountaineering career.
Mahruki summited Mount Everest (8,848 m.) on May 15, 1995, being the first ever Turkish and Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
person to do so. In 1996, he completed the climbing of Seven Summits in seven continents (Everest, Aconcagua
Aconcagua
Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas at . It is located in the Andes mountain range, in the Argentine province of Mendoza and it lies west by north of its capital, the city of Mendoza. The summit is also located about 5 kilometres from San Juan Province and 15 kilometres from the...
, Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif is the highest mountain of Antarctica, lying in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, which stand above the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located about from the South Pole and is about long and wide. At the highest point is Mount...
, Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...
, McKinley
Mount McKinley
Mount McKinley or Denali in Alaska, United States is the highest mountain peak in North America and the United States, with a summit elevation of above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve.- Geology and features :Mount McKinley is a granitic pluton...
, Elbrus
Mount Elbrus
Mount Elbrus is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's peak is the highest in the Caucasus, in Russia...
and Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko is a mountain located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park. With a height of 2,228 metres above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Australia...
), being the youngest person to do so.
In 1997, he climbed Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal...
(8,201 m) solo, setting a Turkish record. He next ascended Lhotse
Lhotse
Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is and Lhotse Shar is...
(8,516 m) without an oxygen tank in 1998 and climbed the very dangerous and difficult K2
K2
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...
(8,611 m).
Nasuh travels a lot collecting data for his books and documentaries. He is the president of AKUT, a voluntary search-and-rescue organization based in Istanbul he co-founded in 1996. AKUT rushes to outdoor accidents and major natural disasters all over the world, like the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, Nantou - Tayvan earthquake, Gujarat - India earthquake, Bam - Iran earthquake, Mozambique flood, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
2005 Kashmir earthquake
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was a major earthquake centered in Pakistan-administered Kashmir known as Azad Kashmir, near the city of Muzaffarabad, affecting Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It occurred at 08:52:37 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October 2005...
.
Mahruki published four books and many articles about his outdoor challenges and travels all around the world. Among his other outdoor activities are climbing, scuba diving
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....
, paragliding, sailing, caving
Caving
Caving—also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and potholing in the United Kingdom—is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems...
, off-roading
Off-roading
Off-roading is a term for driving a vehicle on unsurfaced roads or tracks, made of materials such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain.-Off-road vehicle:...
, motorbike and cycling.
Accomplishments
- Little Demirkazık (3,425 m) West face climb NiğdeNigdeNiğde is a small city and the capital of Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. The population is 109,724 per the 2010 statistics...
, Turkey July 1991 - Five climbs on Terskey Ala Too mountains: Uglawaya (3,900 m), Peak Studentin (4,202 m), Brigandina-Albatros traverse (4,800-4,740 m), Cigid (5,170 m), KazakhstanKazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, July 1991 - First Turkish ascent of Khan TengriKhan TengriKhan Tengri is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. It is located on the China—Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan border, east of lake Issyk Kul. Its geologic elevation is , but its glacial cap rises to...
(7,010 m), KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
, August 1992 - Great Demirkazık North Face climb (3,756 m), Niğde Turkey, September 1992
- Winter ascent of Mount ElbrusMount ElbrusMount Elbrus is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's peak is the highest in the Caucasus, in Russia...
(5,621 m), Caucasus, February 1993 - Lenin PeakLenin PeakLenin Peak , rises to in Gorno-Badakhshan on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-highest point of both countries. It is considered one of the easiest 7,000 m peaks in the world to climb and it has by far the most ascents of any 7,000 m or higher peak on earth, with every...
(7,134 m), Kyrgyzstan, July 1993 - First Turkish ascent of Vaja Psavela (6,912 m), Kyrgyzstan, August 1993
- First Turkish ascent of Peak of Four (6,299 m), Kyrgyzstan, July 1994
- First Turkish ascent of Peak KorzhenevskayaPeak KorzhenevskayaPeak Korzhenevskaya is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. It is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" in the territory of theformer Soviet Union. It is named after Evgenia Korzhenevskaya, the wife of Russiangeographer Nikolai L...
(7,105 m), TajikistanTajikistanTajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
, July 1994 - Peak CommunismIsmail Samani PeakIsmoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Soviet Union, named after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak was first established in 1928, the mountain...
(7,495 m), Tajikistan, July 1994 - Solo and first Turkish ascent of Peak PobedaPeak PobedaJengish Chokusu is the highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain system at . It lies on the Kyrgyzstan-China border, in the Kakshaal Too, the highest part of the Tien Shan, southeast of lake Issyk Kul.- Names :...
(7,439 m), Kyrgyzstan, August 1994 - First Turkish winter ascent of Mount Demavand (5,671 m), IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
December 1994 - Mount ErciyesMount ErciyesMount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching...
(3,916 m), North icefall winter ascent, KayseriKayseriKayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...
, February 1995 - Completed the "Seven Summits" project of climbing the highest peaks of each of the continents, November 1996. The mountains are:
- Mt. Everest (8,848 m), TibetTibetTibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
, AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, May 17, 1995. First Turkish ascent - Aconcagua (6,959 m), ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, South AmericaSouth AmericaSouth America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
, November 1995. First Turkish ascent - Vinson Massif (4,897 m), Antarctica, December 1995. First Turkish ascent
- McKinley (6,194 m), AlaskaAlaskaAlaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, January 1996 First Turkish ascent - Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, August 1996 - Elbrus (5,642 m) Caucasus, EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, August 1996 - Cosciusko (2,228 m) AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, November 1996
- Mt. Everest (8,848 m), Tibet
- Great Demirkazık (3,756 m), Peck route first winter ascent, NiğdeNigdeNiğde is a small city and the capital of Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. The population is 109,724 per the 2010 statistics...
, Turkey, December 1996. - Güzeller (3,461 m), North face first winter ascent, Niğde, Turkey, February 1997.
- Solo ascent of Cho OyuCho OyuCho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal...
(8,201 m), Tibet, 6th highest mountain of the world. The highest solo ascent of Turkey. September 1997, without oxygen. First Turkish ascent - LhotseLhotseLhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is and Lhotse Shar is...
(8,516 m), 4th highest mountain of the world. West face, Nepal, May 1998, The highest oxygenless ascent of Turkey. First Turkish ascent - Attempted ManasluManasluManaslu , also known as Kutang) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, and is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. Its name, which means "Mountain of the Spirit", comes from the Sanskrit word Manasa, meaning "intellect" or "soul"...
(8,163 m), Nepal October 1998. - Mount DamavandMount DamavandMount Damāvand also known as Donbavand, a potentially active volcano and the highest peak in Iran, has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore...
(5,671 m), Iran January 2000 - Winter ascent of Mount AraratMount AraratMount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat and Lesser Ararat .The Ararat massif is about in diameter...
(Ağrı Dağı) (5,137 m), Turkey February 2000 - First Turkish ascent of extremely dangerous and difficult K2K2K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...
(8,611 m), PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
July 2000. 2nd highest mountain of the world, The highest oxygenless ascent by a Turkish national. - Muztagh AtaMuztagh AtaMuztagh Ata, or Muztagata , is the second highest of the mountains which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau . It is sometimes regarded as being part of the Kunlun Shan, although physically it is more closely connected to the Pamirs...
(7,546 m), ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
August 2001. First Turkish ascent. Highest ski-ascent of Turkey.
Books
- Diary of an Alpinist (Yapi Kredi Press, 1995)
- First Turk on Everest (Yapi Kredi Press, 1995)
- In Search of a Dream (Yapi Kredi Press, 1996)
- Roads of Asia, Himalayas, and Beyond (Yapi Kredi Press, 1999)
- Earth Diary (KAPITAL Press, 2002)
- Motherland is only to be loved by actions, not by empty words (GUNCEL YAYINCILIK, 2007)
Awards
- "Best Climber of Turkey" and was nominated as a candidate for the "Best Sportsman of Turkey", 1992 and 1994. (No elections in 1993)
- "Snow LeopardSnow Leopard awardThe Snow Leopard award was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. It is still recognised in the Commonwealth of Independent States...
" by the Russian Mountaineering Federation after completing the ascents of 5 seven thousand meter peaks of the CISCommonwealth of Independent StatesThe Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
, August 1994. At that time there were overall 214 climbers who were awarded with that title of which 3 were Western climbers.