Boyan Petrov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boyan Petrov

bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1973

Place of Birth: Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 01-May-2018

Profession: scientist, zoologist, mountaineer, speleologist

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Boyan Petrov (Bulgarian: ???? ??????, born 7 February 1973 - disappeared 5 May 2018) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer, who worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.At the time of his disappearance he had climbed 10 out of the 14 eight-thousanders, all without supplementary oxygen.
As of October 2019, this achievement tied him with Atanas Skatov as the Bulgarian altitude climber with the highest number of successful ascents of peaks over 8000 meters.
He was the first Bulgarian to summit four of those mountains: Gasherbrum I (2009), Kangchenjunga (2014), K2 (2014) and Manaslu (2015).