Harry Coumans is one of the world's youngest mountaineers, who has successfully completed many challenging climbs. What he likes the most about mountaineering is that it is a constant battle with yourself.
2. Harry Coumans is one of the world's youngest
mountaineers, who has successfully
completed many challenging climbs. What he
likes the most about mountaineering is that it
is a constant battle with yourself. As a
professional climber, he always tries to see
how far he can push himself to achieve his
goals.
3. Describing how it feels while standing on the
top of a peak, he says, “ It's a feeling of total
elation at the top. On one hand you are
completely filled with pride and excitement,
but on the other hand you know that you're
only halfway. For me reaching the top isn't
the goal. Getting back home is the goal.”
4. Harry Coumnas's ultimate aim is to climb the
Seven Summits, which are the highest
mountains of each of the seven continents.
Summiting these peaks is a mountaineering
challenge, which comes with lots of hurdles.
In spite of these hurdles, Harry is confident
that he will emerge as a winner.
5. His previous attempt to climb all seven
summits was in 2011, which did not turn out
the way he wanted. When his group, which
included eight more climbers besides him,
reached at Aconcagua's highest camp, a
devastating storm hit & killed four of them.
Due to bad weather, they had to cease their
mission and return to the base camp.