Adrian Laza, a forestry engineer from Neamț, managed to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters in the world on Wednesday. The last of his records was a massif in the Himalayas, Shishapangma, which he tried to conquer two more times so far, reports Monitorul de Neamț.
Adrian Laza, a forestry engineer from Neamț, managed to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters in the world on Wednesday. The man’s wife wrote, in a post on the Facebook social network, a message in which she presents details about the mountaineer’s expeditions.
“Bravoooooo!!!! Extraordinary!!!!
You did it, Adrian, you have written history for yourself, for Romania, for all of us! What a journey, what madness, how much work, how much sacrifice, how much ambition and determination! You are the FIRST, and we are proud and overjoyed!
“I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can.” Sir Edmund Hillary
… And you did it! You have “grown” as a person beyond unimaginable limits, and Shishapangma allowed you on her summit this morning, adding the 14th giant to the book of your immense achievement.
We are grateful and pray for your safe descent!”
The 61-year-old mountaineer received the necessary visas and permits for the ascent and crossed the border between Nepal and Tibet (China) on September 21, according to the cited source. The trip was made up of climbers attempting to scale their 14th career octave. The last attempt to reach the summit took place in April this year, when Adrian Laza was in Nepal waiting for permission from Chinese officials to climb Shishapangma, a peak with heights of 8,013, 8,027 or 8,046 meters.
In 2023, four people lost their lives in an avalanche on Shishapangma, and Adrian Laza witnessed the shocking incident. Adrian Laza’s group managed to avoid a major avalanche in the first expedition which took place on October 7, 2023. Another group, which was only a few hundred meters ahead, did not manage to escape the avalanche , and thus two climbers from the USA, Anna Guțu, of Romanian origin, and Gina Marie (with 13 active ascents), together with Sherpas Mingmar Sherpa and Tenjen Lama, died.