Rinat Khaibullin took up mountaineering and rock climbing from the age of 17, in 1986 he fulfilled the Snow Leopard standard, this title was awarded to climbers who conquered all 7 thousandth peaks of the USSR.
In 1994, he was a 3-time "Snow Leopard", having made more than 30 ascents to peaks above 7000 meters above sea level.
In 1986, he was selected for the second national mountaineering team of the USSR, in which he made the first ascent of the 8th thousandth mountain in the Himalayas - the peak of Kanchenjunga 8,586 meters above sea level, as part of the legendary Ukrainian climbers Mikhail Turkevich, Sergey Bershov and Viktor Pastuh.