Acting President of Federation of alpinism and climbing Anatoliy Shabanov said that Uzbekistan’s team will participate in the first World Championship on Alpinism.

Uzbekistan along with other participants of the World Championship, will climb to the most difficult Himalayas’ Annapurna.

Uzbekistan team also includes Sergey Ilyasov, Ivan Lobanov, Grigoriy Yudin, Andrei Kutsiy, Aleksander Bikov, Yuriy Yegorov and doctor Dmitriy Serebryakov. All of them have experience in climbing.

Annapurna is a section of the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes 8,091 m (26,545 ft) Annapurna I, thirteen additional peaks over 7,000 m (22,970 ft) and 16 more over 6,000 m (19,690 ft).[3] This section is a 55 km-long (34 mi-long) massif.

Annapurna I is tenth among Earth's fourteen eight-thousanders. It rises east of the Kali Gandaki Gorge separating it from Dhaulagiri massif. 8167 metre Dhaulagiri I is 34 km to the west and the gorge between is considered Earth's deepest.

Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which literally means "full of food" (feminine form), but is normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests.