Deaf climbers with an artificial leg, and a person with epilepsy. Only two of the individuals in the group did not reach the summit. Heidi Zimmer is the first deaf woman to reach the summit of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. She is the first deaf individual to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, as well as Mt. Elbrus in the Republic of Russia which has an elevation of 18,510 feet. She has a goal of completing the seven summits which consist of the highest peak in each continent. This is considered a huge accomplishment in the climbing world. Yasayuki Okobu,
Elbrus Race on every September - see http://fastestknowntime.elbrusrace.com/ Many outstanding athletes took part in the Elbrus Race in the past 13 years, Denis Urubko, Andrey Puchinin, Sergey Seliverstov, Vitaly Shkel, Killian Jornet, Artur Hajzer, Andrzej Bargiel, Ilyas Achabaev, Svetlana Sharipova, Anna Figura, Roman Gubanov, Anton Proshchenko, Yuri Klim, Sergey Furstsev , Abdulkhalim Elmezov, Luca Colli, Boris Korshunov, Anindya Mukherjee, Andrew Mariev, Marhan Milan, Valentin Vergilyush Anton Proshchenko Natalia Nikolashina, Mikhail Klimov, Aleksandra (Ola) Dzik, Maria Khitrikova, Oksana Stefanishina, Olga Rzhavsky, Haggai Skopino Ivan Moshnikov Victor Trinozov Tatiana Ufimtseva, Jakub Voytahnio, Marcin Rzheotko Vasily Bakshanov, Anzor Zhurtov, Atilla Kupas, Isabela Zatorska, Marzena Rzeszotko,