Related: Gay hikers share their favorite trails and advice for beginnersIt all began in August 2018, when the Pink Summits team climbed Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Eastern Europe and Russia.
In fact, while trying to cross the state border between Georgia and Russia, the latter’s secret services—the FSB—stopped and interrogated them.Dastan Kasmamytov, the founder of Pink Summits, told GayCities about the scary experience.“I am sure they googled my last name beforehand and were asking very personal questions.
They were also making homophobic and sexist jokes. I also had to delete all gay content on my cell phone, afraid of them checking the contents.”Authorities detained him for around six hours and then thankfully allowed him and a.