Today the second group have summited Everest.
News from 7 Summits Club & Alpindustria Everest Expedition 2007
From the leader of expedition, Alex Abramov
May, 20 2007 8300 m, Everest from the North.
Today the second group have summited Everest. We have left at midnight and in 8 a.m. were at the top of Everest. Now it is 11:30, at eleven we all has reached the camp 8300 m. We plan to begin descent in 10-15 minutes. Up to height … we want, as a minimum to pass by camp of 7700 meters, to go down in camp of 7000 meters, or even better in ÀÂÑ. I want to name summiters:
Alexander Bichenko, guide, from Kamchatka;
Alexander Abramov (second time Everest);
Sergey Batura, Nakhodka Russian Fer East and Byelorussia;
Andrey Ivanov, from Kamchatka;
Sergey Dashkevich, from Kamchatka;
Bill Tyler, an American.
My wife, Lyudmila Korobeshko became the first woman from Moscow and second of Russia on Everest. We were the first married couple from Russia at the top of Everest.
Well, we have not gone down yet. While we are in the camp of 8300 m.
Good-bye!
Alexander Abramov, from slopes of Everest