Radek Jaroš mountaineer
His childish dream to become a climber did not come true until he was 18, when he started climbing in the Czech-Moravian Highlands. The Tatras, Tjan-sjan, Pamir and Himalaya followed. To some of the tops he appreciates belong the 6,000m high Moscow Truth Pik(1989) and the 5,000m high Teacher Pik (1989). In 1994 he failed climbing Mount Everest (8,848m). However, he fell the charm of the highest mountain and with his second expedition in 1998, when he became a member of the High Point Team, he succeeded together with Vladimír Nosek to climb the top through the northern rib without using oxygen.” I did not beat Mount Everest, the mountain and suitable circumstances allowed me to reach the top”. Radek Jaroš is an enthusiastic propagator of mountaineering – he makes snaps, provides websites and lectures. Together with Arnošt Tabášek he wrote the books Conquering of the Sky and Mountains from the Air. Together with Zdeněk Hrubý he was awarded the Fair Play Price by the Czech Fair Play Club. When climbing Dhaulagiri they had helped two Polish climbers suffering from altitude illness and on their way down they had saved two other climbers, this time from Spain. When saving the lives of others they risked their own lives knowing that the chances of their expedition were getting smaller. They were those who helped although there were nearly twenty other climbers of various nationalities who could have joined them, but they didn´t. Radek is a top sportsman with enormous will and admirable character, which he has demonstrated on the highest tops of the world. He is a modest and honest man at the same time. In 2006 he proclaimed: I want to climb all mountains higher than 6.000 m.“ No other Czech climber has achieved that.
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