John Falkiner

Two brothers, two passions and two eras: Alexey and Nikolay Sushtrov a chemist and a physicist have always been passionate mountaineers. Well-known members of the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet era, with the advent of Perestroika, the two brothers abandoned the miserable salary of researchers to make a living bringing western tourists to the mountains of Pamir and the Caucasus. A mountain symbolically associates their destinies: the Elbrus, the Caucasus volcano, which with its 5642 meters height is the roof of continental Europe.