This presentation is a non-commercial project and was created on a voluntary basis in the International Academy of business and banking. As the organizer and coordinator of the project I – the head of the Computer Design Studio Roman V. Bojur – express my sincere thanks to all those who granted their time and efforts to make this project a reality:
  • Expedition members Ivan T. Dusharin and Andrei E. Volkov – for their diaries, many-hour discussions, participation in texts preparation and organizational help;
  • Vladimir V. Shuvalov – for granting unique photo- and videomaterials, also for help in photos database creation;
  • Sergei A. Soeminne (International Academy) – for discussions, original thoughts, help in texts creation and the design concept of the presentation;
  • Students’ creative laboratory DESIGN DEPARTMENT (Sciences and Arts department and Finance and Management department of the Academy) consisting of Sergei Kudriashov, Maxim Sevastianov, Alexander Kisseliov – for their work in the design of the presentation;
  • Students of Sciences and Arts department Natalie Afanasieva – for audio- and videoclips, Eva Baskova and Anton Busygine – for animated maps, Alexei Fedonin – for navigational icons;
  • Student of Philology department Anna Zubenko, Mr. Dennis Dart, lawyer and Mr. Mattew Madden, management specialist, Peace Corps volunteers for the translation of the presentation texts to English;
  • Messrs Roberto Mantovani and Kurt Diemberger for their brilliant album “K2 – Challenging The Sky”, from which we picked up a great deal of information concerning K2 and the North Face route;
  • Netscape Communications for its excellent product – Netscape Communicator 4.0 for Windows and Macintosh – which as available free to educational establishments.

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