[trhway]

you've got the wrong peak. 7439m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu

3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.

[TFNA]

Jengish Chokusu is in Kyrgyzstan, not Russia. And during the Soviet era it was part of the Kyrgyz SFSR, not the Russian SFSR. You’d have to be talking about events happening before 1917 (when it was part of the general Russian Empire) for someone writing in 2026 to reasonably describe it as “in Russia”.

> 3000m is nothing

Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.

[dredmorbius]

From the Meduza story linked earlier in this subthread:

Russian mountain climber Natalia Nagovitsina, who got stranded on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak on August 12 after suffering an injury during her descent, has died...

<https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe...>

The climber was Russian. The peak, Kyrgyzstani. The name "Pobeda" means "Victory" in Russian. Mountains (and other geographic features) often share names, and specifying which and where can occasionally be confusing.

Tolerance for someone mis-remembering elements of a story helps avoid tedious comment litigation.

[TFNA]

Confusing a country that won independence from its colonizer with said colonizer (regardless of whether it was a typical geographical misconception around "Russia" or a mere slipup) is pretty insensitive.

[dredmorbius]

Really, that theme is tired.

The mistake was in all likelihood innocent.

[rob74]

Be that as it may, the highest peak in Russia (and in all of Europe) is Mt. Elbrus, which is 5,642 m. Guess it sucks to be a peak in the 7000-8000 m range in Asia, which would be the highest peak on any other continent, but in Asia, it's just one of many...