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Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Introduction

Jaan Künnap in 1989 at the top of Lenin Peak (7,134 m). It is the first time when the Estonian flag reached over 7,000 m

Jaan Künnap is an Estonian photographer, mountaineer and trainer-instructor. Thousands of his photos have reached Wikimedia Commons, the media repository of Wikimedia. He has been chosen as the wikiphotographer of a year in 2019, 2020 and 2023.

He began his job as a diver on a rescue ship during the 1960s and has been an active mountaineer and photographer since the 1970s. In 1987, he received the prestigious Snow Leopard award. In order to receive the honour, he had to climb four mountains, 7,000 m and above, within the Soviet Union.

Subsequently, we shall demonstrate a section of Künnap's photos from the years during which Estonia, then occupied by the Soviet Union, regained its independence.

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  Khan Tengri expedition in 1987. Estonian flag can be seen against the backdrop of Tian Shan mountain range highest peak Pobeda (now Jengish Chokusu)
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  On the way to the top of Peak Korzhenevskaya. Stop at 6,500 m on the backdrop of Communism Peak. International alpine camp "Pamir 87". Enn Branno, Kalev Muru and Alfred Lõhmus can be seen on the photo

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