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Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Good morning , 7 Summits!!! Our “Gypsy camp” and finally got to the mountains! Yesterday we came to the village of Penitentes, checked equipment, handed over the bags and boxes with provisions for loading on the mules, and then went for a walk in the surrounding hills. We went to a height of 3000 meters, it was a nice walk. Today we go further, and for couple of days we will be off-line . All, for a while!

On November 9, 2018, the team of the 7 Summiys Club made a successful ascent to the top of the Carstensz Pyramid, the highest peak of the Australian continent.

  List of climbers: Yuri Gurgov, Alexander Logachev, Alexander Popov, Kirill Semeshkin,

Vladimir Belkovich.  Head and guide Artem Rostovtsev. All the participants and the guide had climbed Everest together earlier this year.

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina: Hello, 7 summits! Finally, the preparation for the season is over and the first group flew to us in Mendoza.   The group consists of eleven members and there's four muses, four fairies of  Aconcagua!!! Luda, Zhenya, Nastya, Sasha! Men, too, as the selection - a miracle heroes!!! Well, we will hope for the weather, because such a stellar team  is simply obliged to climb to the top! Let's hope that the mountain going to let us up!!!!

Alexander Abramov and Artem Rostovtsev today made an unforgettable trip to Oslo in preparation for the expedition to Antarctica. Besides the fact that we bought skis and boots for skiing in Antarctica to the South Pole, we also visited several unique museums. This is the Museum of Kon-Tiki and Ra ships, in which Thor Heyerdahl's crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is Museum of Arctic and Antarctic discoveries, with the ship FRAM which was built by Nansen.  It was the ship that Amundsen sailed to Antarctica to conquer the South Pole. In General, shopping turned out to be very useful from a cognitive point of view.

Boris Yegorov,  a guide of the 7 Summits Club:

In preparation for the unique expedition to mount Fitzroy (Patagonia), which will take place in January next year, we organized a training session on the warm cliffs of Turkey. Turkey is unique place for autumn climbing, the season is here is in full swing, a variety of lasagna, 5 crops of oranges per year, grenades are falling from the trees right in the hands, good food and warm sea!

The participants discovered that rock climbing is not only within mountaineering, but it is interesting as an independent activity. We did not have much time, but an intensive schedule. We managed to go multi-pitch to remember the feeling of height, and tighten the level of climbing so that in the end it turned out to climb 6C category of difficulty, and this is not a beginner level! In General, we are ready for Patagonia.

5th of December Nikolai Cherny marks 80 years!  The 7 Summits Club congratulates him as a close friend, guide and member of our expeditions. Thank you for your participation in our formation, for your kindness, for the wisdom that we are trying to learn from you!

 We wish You health and new mountains !

A team of our Aconcagua Guides have completed their work in Santiago and are moving to Argentina.  The group was divided into two parts: Ershovs and Berezin go by bus straight to Mendoza. Kotlyar and David go by lorry with camp equipment in Penitentes. All things from a depot was dismantled, purchased a generator for lighting the camp. This season we will organize a special "Russian camp" for several consecutive groups of  the 7 Summits Club. 

Lyudmila Korobeshko, Director of the 7 Summits Club: we returned to Cape town from an Antarctic weekend with a lot of impressions.  We visited the land Of Queen Maud and saw the majestic mountain Ulvetanna.  We visited the real polar explorers from the Russian station Novolazarevskaya and steamed in a real sauna in Antarctica.

And most importantly, we said farewell a team of TRANS-Antarctic rally.

Today, December 1, at the Gala evening of the Russian Federation of Mountaineering were summed up the final results of the season of climbing Everest 2018. Honorary signs "Climber on Everest" were awarded to climbers who for the first time (for themselves) climbed the highest peak of the World, the heroes of this year! Congratulations! 

List of climbers on Everest 2018

15-05-18

Dmitry Klimchuk

Oleg Mezentsev

17-05-18

Aleksadr Logachev

Vladimir Belkovich

Dmitry Tertychny (17 years old)

Alexander Tertychny

Dmitry Tomilin

Cyril Semechkin

Alexander Popov

Alexey Balakin

Alexander Abramov (9th times)

18-05-18

Vasily Shakhnovsky

Alexey Safonov

Karina Mezova (2nd.)

Irina Zelenkova

Vladimir Kotlyar (2nd)

Artem Rostovtsev.

Igor Markevich

Vyacheslav Kochubey.

19-05-18

Dmitry Ermakov (2^rd.)

Andrei Mariev (2nd.)

Maxim Shakirov (3rd.)

Ksenia Samarina

Yuri Gurgov

Alexey Bakulin

Ayrat Yunusov

Zemfira Yunusova

Igor Demyanenko (2nd vosh)

Jamil Murtazina.

from the South

23-05-18

Anatoly Mensky.

Lyudmila Korobeshko: we load and fly to Antarctica in an hour. We accompany our friends to a cool, unprecedented expedition.

Expedition "Antarctica. 200 years of discoveries". The first Autonomous (!) automobile TRANS-Antarctic expedition. It is:

- 7 participants;

- 2 all-terrain vehicles on wheels of his own invention (author-Vasily Yelagin);

- 6000 km - the proposed route includes a visit to 5 polar stations (Novolazarevskaya, Pole of Inaccessibility, South Pole, Vostok, Progress);

- 4 tons of fuel ;

- 1.5 months on the way.

And many, many kilometers of film footage about the expedition.

Participants:

Group of drivers-mechanics:

- Vasily Yelagin;

- Alexey Makarov;

- Vladimir Obikhod.

Movie Crew:

- Valdis Pelsh;.

- Christina Kozlova;. 

- Alexander Kubasov;

- Denis Nehrebecki.

Good luck friends!

The first day we will support their personal presence in Antarctica!

Lyudmila Korobeshko, Director of the 7 Summits Club from South Africa:

All greetings from Cape Town from Abramov and Korobeshko! Today, in the harsh conditions of the scorching sun and the water limit, we made a heroic ascent to the highest point of the South of South Africa - Table Mountain (Tafelberg, 1085 m). This is how we acclimate before tomorrow's flight to Antarctica.

The 7 Summits Club  plans to reward climbers on the "Seven Summits", that is, the highest peaks of all continents, a special sign of honor. What will be the order of awarding, we will inform later. Now we offer you to look at the list of summiters from Russia plus those of whom we consider "our". Citizens of Russia in this list are 38 people. And they all, somehow, climbed in the programmes of the 7 Summits Club. With the exception of the first – Fedor Konyukhov, who also was in our group climbing Everest, but after the completion of the program "Seven Summits".  We are proud to note that, apparently (accurate statistics have not yet been restored), Russia is in second place in the world in terms of the number of climbers to the highest peaks of the continents. And this is the merit, first of all, of our 7 Summits Club!  We are proud!

1997.05.26  Fyodor Konyukhov.               Kosciuszko        

2005.11.13  Dmitry Moskalev.    Kosciuszko   2008.02.28-Carstensz

2005.12.15  Alexander Abramov.             Kosciuszko 2008. 02.28 Carstensz

2005.12.15  Victor Bobok.            Kosciuszko 2013.11.08 Carstensz

2006.01.10  Boris Sedusov.          Kosciuszko 2006.01.06

2006.02.02  Karo Ovasapyan (Arm-USA) 2008.02.28

2007.05.19  Israfil Ashurly (AZR)Kosciuszko        

2008.07.06  Igor Pochvalin.          Kosciuszko 2017.11.04  - Carstensz

2008.12.09  Sergey Larin.                            

2008.12.12  Sergey Kofanov.                     

2009.01.02  Lyudmila Korobeshko.          Kosciuszko 2010.10.16 - Carstensz

2010.07.22  Elena Gorelik.           Kosciuszko 2013.09.26

2010.12.27  Sergey Kovalev        Kosciuszko         

2011.01.07  Maxim Bogatyrev.                 

2011.05.21  Yuri Beloyvan.                         

2011.05.21  Igor Prinziuk                             

2012.05.17  Mikhail Turovsky.    Kosciuszko 2013.09.23 Carstensz

2012.11.01  Andrey Podolyan.   Kosciuszko        

2012.12.11  Maxim Shakirov.      Kosciuszko        

2012.12.11  Ivan Dusharin.          Kosciuszko        

2012.12.23  Dmitry Sokov.           Kosciuszko        

2013.09.26  Vitaly Simonovich.                 

2013.10.25  Andrey Filkov Kosciuszko   

2014.01.06  Igor Kadochin.          Kosciuszko        

2014.06.10?        Sergei Dudko.                 Kosciuszko          

2014.06.10?        Dmitry Krasnov.               Kosciuszko        

2015.04.13  Igor Stolyarov.                         

2015.05.29  Yaroslav Sabyrbaev (KAZ)                  

2015.06.15  Sergey Dmitriev                      

2016.05.09  Maria Gordon.                        

2016.05.20  Igor Demyanenko.                

2016.11.01  Irina Kharazova.                      

2017.05.22  Evgeny Kravt.                          

2017.06.20  Alexey Bautin.          Kosciuszko        

2017.11.04  Oleg Savchenko.                    

2017.12.14  Tatiana Jalovchak (Ukr).                      

2018.05.17  Alexander Tertychny.                          

2018.05.17  Dmitry Tertychnyy.               

2018.05.17  Alexey Balakin.                       

2018.05.19  Jamilya Murtazina.                

2018.11.09  Vladimir Belkovich.

2018.11.09  Kirill Semeshkin.

2019.01.06 Vladislav Lachkarev

Mikhail Stepanov with his son Ivan and friends recently traveled to Mexico with the ascent of the volcano Orizaba. It is one of the seven highest volcanoes in the seven continents of the world, the highest in North America.  In addition, Orizaba (5,700 m), the highest mountain in Mexico.  Thanks for the wonderful photos and videos!

All  Everest summiters and all friends of the 7 Summits Club are once again invited to the Gala evening of the Russian mountaineering Federation on December 1. Gathering of participants from 17: 00, beginning at 18: 00. There, in particular,  it will be awarded  ceremony  of honorary signs "Climber on Everest"  to heroes of the 2018 season.

 And for one of the heroes, Vasily Shakhnovsky, the award has found a few before. In the plane flying to the far South, Alexander Abramov presented this beautiful award to one of our best friends.

 Congratulations!

 Vasily Shakhnovsky went with our leaders to explore the South of Africa and the North of Antarctica.

Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club from South Africa:

Hello Friends! We arrived in Cape town in South Africa. From here on December 1 we will fly to Antarctica to Novolazarevskaya station. And then the cars with the team will go to the South Pole and through the Vostok station to the Mirny station. About 6,000 km.

On the way from Europe, our plane landed in Zimbabwe. Right by Victoria falls. We got a lot of fun and adrenaline.

On November 24, the leaders of the 7 Summits Club 7 Peaks Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko visited the opening of the exhibition of painting Vasily Nesterenko. It was a pleasure to meet legendary veterans of the national mountaineering Vladimir Shataev, Boris Korshunov, Yuri Tinin, our old friends Alexander Yakovenko, Sergey Bogomolov and Vladimir Suviga.

  "Better than the mountains can only be mountains..." this famous phrase called his new exhibition people's artist of Russia Vasily Nesterenko and it immediately gives us an idea about the theme of the exhibition.

  The exhibition presents his works made over the past 10 years after expeditions to Elbrus, Sayan, Altai Mountains and Kamchatka. The exhibition will give visitors an idea of the unique regions of Russia, the love of which the artist sings in his paintings.

Watch Vadim Khairullin's amateur film.  The passage of the climbing route (multi-pitch) Mishorsky caves. Fog, of course, greatly prevented to make high-quality shooting.  But still there is information about the route, it is clear that it is worthy to be considered one of the best in the Crimea.

Such diversity is nowhere on the Crimean climbing  routes, and the caves themselves are an amazing object.  We will wait for new, better shootings…

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov and our Ecuadorian friend Edgar Parra ascended the highest active volcano in Ecuador (and the world) Cotopaxi 5870 m.

Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club:

Hello!  Me and Edgar Parra climbed the highest active volcano in Ecuador (and the world) Cotopaxi 5870 m. the Weather was great. The views were stunning…

Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club:

Today Alexander Abramov and our Ecuadorian guide Edgar Parra climbed the highest peak of Ecuador Chimborazo 6310m (the highest mountain in the world, if measured from the center of the Earth). Since the ascent was made without acclimatization, before that there was only one night at 3500, it was very difficult. But, nevertheless, we ascended to the Main peak of the mountain, which is an hour from the Western.