Only a couple of days remain to go till another year of the prestigious international Winter Survival competition that shall take place from 25 till 30 January 2009 in the Hruby Jesenik Mountains. A representative of the University of Defence will be Jan Tancibudek who was in the team that won the bronze medal last year. In the time of this interview he was representing the University of Defence to Military Winter Games – ACR skiing championships that was held on 19 to 22 January 2009 in the Jesenik Mountains.

More than seventy kilometres afoot or on skis in wild winter mountains carrying all equipment on shoulders, crossing rock walls and gorges under the risk of wound plus unpredictable weather make Winter Survival an extreme event. The new one is going to start in the Hruby Jesenik Mountains in a month.

The noted military Winter Survival championships will be all out in the last week of January next year in the Hruby Jesenik Mountains in the North-East area of the Czech Republic. The 15th year of Czech Military Forces’ Winter Outdoor Polyathlon Winter Survival 2009 is under preparation made by the Czech Army General Staff and the University of Defence in close collaboration.