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On 16 January 1958, he was born in Korkino (in what is now Russia) Anatoli Boukreev, a formidable Kazakh mountaineer who, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, made remarkable ascents of the 8,000-metre peaks (18 times on 7 different summits) whilst also leading several commercial expeditions. He perished when he was swept away by an avalanche onAnnapurna in 1997.
On 25 December 1997, during a winter ascent of Annapurna, Dimitri Sobolev, Anatoli Boukreev and Simone Moro were swept away by an avalanche. Moro miraculously managed to save himself with an epic return to base camp, vividly recounted in the book "Cometa sull'Annapurna". The bodies of Sobolev and Boukreev were never found. A commemorative chorten has been erected at Annapurna Base Camp in memory of the great Kazakh mountaineer.