The volunteer who conquered Mont Blanc died near Bakhmut in June 2023.
Mykhailo Movchan was born in Kryvyi Rih. Since childhood, he was engaged in tourism. He became a prize-winner at the regional and Ukrainian championships in hiking and mountain tourism as a member of the team of the Inhulets Tourism Center. He had the title of Master of Sports of Ukraine in Tourism. Later he switched to industrial mountaineering. In recent years, Mykhailo has been living abroad. In 2019, he conquered Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe. But with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he returned to Ukraine and voluntarily came to its defense. He was a squad leader of the 1st company of an anti-tank battalion, fought in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk region. At 4 a.m. on June 20 2023, Mykhailo Movchan was killed during a combat operation near Bakhmut.