Saško Kedev

Saško Kedev (Проф. Д-р Сашко Кедев), also Sashko Kedev (born 6 July 1962) is a Macedonian politician and doctor of medical sciences. He is a member of the political party VMRO-DPMNE.

Personal life
Born at Štip, Kedev graduated high school in his hometown. He is a physician specialist cardiologist. From 1991 to 1993 he was a specialist at a clinic in Bethesda, USA, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, European intervention certified cardiologist, certified intervention cardiologist in the U.S. He was director of the clinic for cardiology from 1999 to 2003. He lives in Skopje.

Mountaneering
As a mountaineer he has climbed Mont Blanc (together with the alpinist Jovan Poposki - Jove and the alpinist Nadir Murseli), Matterhorn, Weisshorn e tc.

On 19 May 2009, Kedev climbed Mount Everest, becoming the third Macedonian to scale the highest peak in the world.

In the Himalaya mountain range, Sashko Kedev has climbed the following 10 mountain summits higher than 8 000 meters:

- Mount Everest (8 848 m a.s.l.);

- K2 (8 611 m a.s.l.);

- Lhotse (8 516 m н.в.);

- Makalu (8 463 m н.в.);

- Cho Oyu (8 201 m н.в.);

- Dhaulagiri I ( 8 167 m н.в.);

- Manaslu (8 163m н.в.);

- Nanga Parbat (8 125 m н.в.);

- Annapurna I (8 091 m н.в.);

- Broad Peak (8 047 m н.в.);

Politics
From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. In April 2004 he was a presidential candidate but lost in the second round against socialist Branko Crvenkovski.