On 26 September 2019 he reached the 8163m summit of Manaslu, in the Nepalese Himalayas. He climbed as part of commercial expedition via the standard north route. This was followed by a solo snowboard descent to above base camp at 5000m, including an uninterrupted run as far as 6200m. He opened a first descent snowboard route from camp four at 7450m to camp three at 6800m. He became the first to snowboard from top of Manaslu without supplemental oxygen, and the first Bulgarian to snowboard (or ski) from an eight-thousander.