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The Indian mountaineers, whom the mountain runner claimed to cross when coming down from the top, deny the meeting. The team of Kilian Jornet confirms the validity of the promotion by Himalayan Database.
Follow the uproar over the double ascent to Mount Everest executed by Kilian Jornet in May 2017. Some doubts that have increased after the declaration of the two Indian climbers with whom Jornet supposedly coincided after ascending for the first time the 8,848 meters of the roof of the world.
As reported by El Confidencial (
https://www.elconfidencial.com/deportes/alpinismo/2018-09-10/kilian-jornet-everest-dudas_1612450/) , the Indian mountaineers whom Kilian Jornet claimed to have crossed after his first Ascent to Everest, Hari Prasad and Sunda Raju , deny that encounter and question the presence of the mountain corridor on the highest peak in the world. A fact that adds to the constant doubts about the double ascent of Catalan, however, Himalayan Database validated after the interview they made Jornet himself.
Correction of Kilian Jornet himself: "There were 2 mountaineers who crossed me, they were a caravan of 43 people who climbed that day in a row, in their Transadventures group were 6 clients (2 were Indians) with another 6 Sherpas".
In fact and as Runner's World Spain has learned through Lymbus (communication agency of Kilian Jornet), Jornet was interviewed by Himalayan Database just after returning from Nepal to validate both promotions. Since then, contact has been maintained with this institution to provide all the documentation they have requested. "In August of 2017, we received the first request for information about Everest tests from Dan Howitt, and in one case we received a response to expand other information besides this first document we sent," they explain from Lymbus.
At the moment Himalayan Database has not requested more information from Jornet or his team
A document that Runner's World Spain has been able to access and that details the two climbs of Jornet to Everest and in which it is indicated, indeed, that after the first ascent the Indian mountaineers were crossed and now they question this fact .
At the moment Himalayan Database has not requested more information from Jornet or his team, so their ascents are still validated with all of the law, although some experts suggest that in the future their qualification may be 'disputed' (questioned).
All a 'soap opera' that does not seem to make much sense if we consider the credibility of an athlete like Kilian Jornet . And it is that few people have shown so much respect for the mountains, those to which he goes every day to explore the limits of his body. As he said shortly after being at Cho Oyu, "the top of Cho Oyu is a very large plateau and I do not know if I've been to the climax or not, but nothing happens." The goal itself is not the top, but the trip to her. "