"7 Summits + 2 Poles" project news

On Friday 10th April the first group of 2015 season began a program of Mount Elbrus climb. The group has 10 people, they will work under the leadership of our guide Artem Rostovtsev.

This team look at the Elbrus climb program as an acclimatization before the upcoming in 3 weeks a serious climb in Tibet.

You are welcome to Elbrus!
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Guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva: "We reached the second camp and passed on. All is well, just wet and cold."

Illustrations from past trips:

Numerous flying bridges on the way to camp 2

at the camp 2

The next our expedition to Carstensz Pyramid is planned for autumn, and this time - with famous Valery Rozov.

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As part of the first ski team, which reached the North Pole, were our Arab friends (UAE) - Hamad Bosaif and Said Almammri. It was an abbreviated program "half a last degree". Said and Hamad and reached the North Pole 7th April in the group, which was led by an experienced Czech guide Miroslav Jakis.

Now the trip participants safely returned to Longyearbyen, where they celebrate
their achievement.

And for us, the 7 Summits Club, they sent a letter of thanks:
"Many thanks 7summits-club! I'm Hamad from United Arab Emirates me and Said Almammri reach 90 degree On north pole"

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With David Hempelman-Adams

For more than 10 years of experience in the Everest region, Alexander Abramov and 7 summits Club have formed a great team of staff, mainly composed of persons Sherpas nationality. These are our true friends, who love their work, friendly and always willing to help. Of course, there were different cases in different situations, sometimes misunderstanding, there have been mistakes. One thing is clear, every year the team is working better and better. Thanks to our Nepalese chef Mingma Gelu Sherpa!

We have only good news. Mingma Gelu, our Nepalese Director, will go with our expedition to Everest. For this purpose, he got rid of the headmaster's belly. A few years Mingma was limited his work to office and base camp, and is now returning to the mountain. He had 8 successful summits of Everest, his sister Laki – 6 summiter. And she, too, returns to beat her record for number of ascents among women.

Meanwhile, Alex Abramov is thinking how he will be seen in history. The film crew will soon arrive and will start to work. Apparently, with the villainous beard, typical of the bad guys in Hollywood movies, Alex did not want to be captured for posterity. Better to be as good looking as the Dalai Lama. The benefit in Kathmandu – you can be shaved for a penny, they even forget about the strike, when the client coming.

Traditional Everest expedition of the 7 Summits Club will be held in April and May of 2015. The route from the north, from Tibet, by the North-East Ridge via the North Col. Logistics will be provided by a Nepalese company 7 Summits Adventure, Director - Gelu Sherpa Mingma. Alexander Abramov as usul is the expedition leader. During the expedition, a crew of "Studio RD" (head Valdis Pelsh) takes video  materials for a documentary with the working title "How to get to Mount Everest."

Members of the expedition:

1 PIMENOVS Olegs 03.09.1967 LVA Riga, Latvia
2 MENSKII Anatolii 14.05.1975 RUS Berezovka vill., Tumenskaya region
3 MURAVEV Kirill 11.07.1971 RUS Leningrad
4 CHABDAROVA Liana 24.08.1982 RUS Nalchik / Moscow
5 KARYAKIN Evgeny 19.01.1974 RUS Saratov
6 REUTOV Roman 24.04.1984 RUS Moscow
7 IULIN Andrei 21.09.1975 RUS Chelyabinsk
8 LETHEO Thale 07.09.1981 ZAF Lonehill, S. Africa
9 SALOVA Irina 27.07.1977 RUS Yverdon, Swizerland
10 MOROZ Vladislav 15.06.1962 RUS Leningrad
11 VOSKRESENSKAIA Nadezhda 11.12.1965 RUS Moscow (до Северного Седла)
12 GEVORKYAN Marina 10.06.1978 RUS Moscow (восхождение на перевал Лакпа Ри).

A crew of "Studio RD"

1 PROVALOV Denis 29.03.1969 RUS Moscow
2 KOZLOVA Kristina 04.12.1977 RUS Moscow
3 KUBASOV Alexander 12.01.1982 RUS Klimovsk, Moscow region
4 DUSHARIN Ivan 01.11.1947 RUS Moscow
5 PELSH Valdis 05.06.1967 RUS Moscow

Guides

1 ABRAMOV Alexander 16.01.1964 RUS Moscow (6 Everest summits)
2 LARIN Sergei 25.06.1959 RUS Tver, Moscow region (6 Everest summits)
3 HANNA Noel Richmond 18.01.1967 IRL Dromara, N. Ireland (7 Everest summits)
4 BOGOMOLOV Sergei 23.02.1951 RUS Saratov (2 Everest summits, 13 eight-thousanders )

The first team  arrived in Kathmandu: Alexander Abramov, Sergei Larin and Vladimir Kotlyar.

Here we were met by Gelu Sherpa Mingma, our permanent sirdar, and my daughter Lena.
We found out that tomorrow a big strike begins in Nepal, which will last 3 days. Therefore, our Sherpas, who prepared an expedition for a couple of months, tonight with the entire load, 5 trucks, go to the border of Tibet and tomorrow will cross the border.
Yay! The expedition begins!

Guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumiantseva reports:

Hello everyone!

Today, all the members of our expedition to the Pyramid Carstenzs gathered in Bali.

It's five members of expedition coming from different cities of Russia and abroad. So the company is to be very fun and varied.

For Eduard this will be the first mountain at all and the first mountain experience. But Igor (Stolyarov) in the case of a successful climb will complete the 7 Summits project .

Tomorrow night we plan to fly to Papua. And if everything will be in order, we immediately put forward to the beginning of the trek.

This site propose fairly short and concise statement of the facts from different areas of knowledge. Elbrus is described briefly and in half of the cases with errors and inaccuracies. However, the final part of the text pleased us. Here facts are basically correct and the name of our leader Alexander Abramov rightly inscribed in the history of the mountain.

http://factualfacts.com/world/mount-elbrus/#__scoop_post=b5eabce0-d7e5-11e4-8a30-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=4009301

“1997

Russian Alexander Abramov guided a ten man expedition, where a Land Rover was driven to the peak. It took 43 days to accomplish this goal, but there were a lot of struggles that had to be overcome. They had to change tyres and utilize winches to pull the vehicle up and it was a continuous cycle of ascending and descending the mountain to retrieve replacement parts that had got damaged. After a lot of sweat and tears they finally reached the peak on September 13, 1997. The Land Rover was abandoned after an attempt down, when they lost control. They later returned to fetch it, but found it too difficult. It still sits in the same spot today and can be seen by other climbers and adventurers”.

Film and pictures:

While a process of settlement of the runway at Borneo continues, tourists, aiming the North Pole, going on Svalbard. 7 Summits Club is presented by our friends from the United Arab Emirates - Syed Almemari and Bosaif Hamad, who were with us on Everest. The day before they came to Svalbard, and depending on the weather to fly from there to Barneo. Barneo camp is a starting place for ski expedition to the North Pole, where they plan to attend. Last Degree is the name of this program.

Watch out for the march on Saeed Almemari facebook page ....

All members of the small expedition of the 7 Summits Club made a successful ascent to the highest peak of Kilimanjaro massif - Uhuru Peak. March 26 it was made by Vasily Petrov and Artem Sawin, next day, March 27 – by Andrey Strunilin. All of them climbed the Machame route. Everything went perfectly, without problems.

Vasily and Artem had managed to take part in a tour on the mine of tanzanite and already came to Russia. Andrey was leaving today on a tour of Arusha, after which in the evening he will fly home.

... .. We went to a tanzanit mine to be witness the difficult and dangerous process of extraction of precious stones.

Project Antarctica: Nothing Left to Prove. Hardcover.
by Grishkov Igor (Author), Klimov Sasha (Editor)

Photos:

On the Amazon:

According to an established tradition, the 7 Summits Club invites all friends three times a year, for the gala evening meeting. The spring party was held on March 19th. Do you want to learn how to make such an event a real fest, a memorable event? What is most important? Interesting prominent guests? Lotteries? Nice video? Treats? Response after 10 photos ....

The whole gallery here (47 pictures). We are still waiting for new photos

http://www.7vershin.ru/photos/all/section_651/

You just need to have a huge number of real friends! It is our main achievement for 10 years of work!

Yesterday, March 19, in Moscow on the traditional gala-evening (party) of the "7 Summits Club" there was a significant event. Lyudmila Korobeshko and Alexander Abramov were awarded by Orders of Edelweiss. This award is given by a special committee of the veterans of Russian mountaineering.

A well-deserved reward! Few Russians have done so much to promote mountaineering among the masses.

Lyudmila - the first Russian woman to finish the program "Seven Summits", and the first in the World made it twice. Alexander is also a famous person. He tactfully reminded at the party - he is the third Russian, completed the program "Seven Volcanoes", a program of climbing to the highest volcanoes all over the world. Two times Seven Summits, 6 times Mount Everest summit. And together, they are a family of owners of the 7 Summits Club – the leading climbing company in whole Eastern Europe.

Lyudmila Korobeshko awarded the Order of Edelweiss

There was no free place in the hall

Traditional gala-evening of the 7 Summits Club - a large collection of people dedicated to the mountains. Ulitsa Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya house 7. Free! Login without passports and tickets!

March 19th. Thursday evening. Beginning at 20:00, as usual, the tables will be covered ....

The main thing at the party:

(!!!) Photos and video of the flight from Kilimanjaro, the story Valery Rozov. Opportunity to touch the hero!

(1) Alexander Abramov, the permanent captain of our Everest team will present the 7 Summits Club Everest expedition in 2015. He gave the word to Valdis Pelsh, all known person from TV. This time his role was a surprise to many. What is the purpose? How the project manager see the next movie about climbing Mount Everest? We hope to learn more at our party. We are waiting for other famous participants in the project: Ivan Dusharin, Denis Provalov ....

The first meeting of the team Everest-2015

(2) Secrets of the Antarctic season. The riddle of the missing deputies and other mysteries of the Ice continent. We are waiting for the main characters and the story from them!

(3) Another great event of the evening - a presentation of the book-album of Olga Rumiantseva "Seven volcanoes Kaspersky Lab." Clearly, this is our "Seven Volcanoes", a project born by 7 Summits Club and author of the project - our person. This is exactly the book that is the best gift. It may even be an opportunity to buy it autographed by the author.

(4) Surprise .... Alex Lonchinsky come to us along the path of the Piolet d'Or in Chamonix.

(5) You are awaiting for the long promised awarding winners of selfy competitions. And in addition to this - the traditional lottery and small prizes from our partner the Active holidays shop .

Looking forward to all of our friends and those who want to become them!

Alex Abramov and Luda Korobeshko came to Elbrus region for work and fun. Tomorrow they will celebrate Women's Day on March 8. Our local office is preparing for a new season that starts from May Days. For two years we use for Mount Elbrus our favorite Refuge – LEAPrus...

Our programs:

Elbrus by classic route, 8 days

Elbrus climb with traverse from south to north, 8 days

In 2013 Italian architectural firm LEAPfactory has constructed a new energy-efficient hotel on the southern glacier of Mount Elbrus, in Russia's Caucasus mountain range. Generally considered the highest peak in Europe, Mount Elbrus has a summit of 5,642 m (18,510 ft). The hotel in question is located 3,912 m (12,834 ft) above sea level, hence its name: LEAPrus 3912.

Depending on your point of view, Mount Elbrus could be considered the highest peak in Euro...LEAPrus 3912 features a 8.6 kw photovoltaic system and a solar thermal system, both comple...The modules boast 46 beds, a living area, restaurant area with kitchen, toilets, reception...The hotel has an expected lifespan of 50 years.

The hotel has a total area of 139 sq m (1,500 sq ft), and comprises four prefabricated modules, which were constructed in Italy before being shipped over to Russia and deposited on the mountainside by helicopter. The modules were then assembled and made operational over a few days in July. They boast 46 beds, a living area, restaurant area with kitchen, toilets, reception, and staff accommodation. The hotel has an expected lifespan of 50 years.

Given the remote location, and the expense and technical difficulty of receiving supplies, it makes good sense to ensure that LEAPrus 3912 is as energy-efficient as possible, and LEAPfactory did indeed install a range of technology to bring this about.

LEAPrus 3912 features a 8.6 kWp photovoltaic system and a solar thermal system, both complemented by a standard gas-burning generator, efficient LED lighting, and an underfloor heating system that's designed for low-temperature usage.

An efficient ventilation system helps mitigate heating requirements, and a sewage plant designed for high-altitude usage has been installed that promises almost 100 percent recycling of human waste. The hotel also sports an integrated system that melts the ample quantities of snow to supply water to sanitation services.

The energy-efficient tech is managed by an energy monitoring system, that in turn is regulated by a computer that can be remotely controlled via satellite.

LEAPrus 3912 was constructed for the North Caucasus Mountain Club, and opened for business last month.

Marina Nagel (Germany) and Gennady Puzankevich (Belarus) climbed up to the Uhuru Peak, the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro massif, on the program of 7 Summits Club. Natalia Lavretzkay also was with them in the expedition, but she did not reach the top. The usual route, but it was not quite normal ascent. The fact is that Gennady did it in slippers on his bare feet. Not for the sake of records, not to impress someone. He always walks barefoot and followed his tradition on Kilimanjaro. Mountain shoes were in a backpack.

Gennady Puzankevich – in general, is an outstanding person, with a unique profession - he taxidermist makes stuffed animals. But the main thing - the whole way of his life on nature and his own style in all...

Belarussian taxidermist Gennady Puzankevich lives in his house in the town of Zhodino, some 50 km (31 miles) east of Minsk, Gennady, one of the most well-known taxidermist in Belarus, has produced some 7000 birds and animals for domestic and international clients during his 40 year-long career. His private collection numbers some 250 birds and animals.

Last Thursday, our manager Marina Nemirova went on a trip to Svalbard, particularly in the Russian city of Barentsburg. Today she sent the first message:

Marina Nemirova: Our charter 737 landed on schedule in the archipelago of Svalbard in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen. Arctic! This could only dream of! And then it happened!
In Longyearbyen, we visited the local museum and a wonderful art gallery, which presents not only the paintings of landscapes of the Arctic, but also ancient maps.
Then we got a special equipment, embarked on snowmobiles and in total darkness covered the distance of 70 km to the Russian city of Barentsburg. The evening ended with a tasting of fresh beer from the local brewery, and before going to bed we saw the northern lights!

The 7 Summits Club expedition to the peak of Carstensz Pyramid under the leadership of Sergei Larin guide the club ended successfully. Even more, super successfully: with the establishment of a new world age record.

Dmitry Tertychny became the world's youngest climber to Carstensz. That is If you take those who made approach through the jungle from Sugapa. His age is 13 years 6 months. Jordan Romero was on top at the age of 13 years 4 months. However, he flew with the team to the base camp by helicopter.

Fully gallery here (83 picture)

Climbing season on Aconcagua is coming to end, the Argentine summer ends. This year, the 7 Summits Club sent in this wonderful country three groups. Total for the season under the guidance of our guide Vladimir Kotlyar the highest peak in South America was reached by 12 people. Our congratulations to all!

And those who failed, we invite to try again next year! Climbing the Aconcagua is not simple, and adverse weather conditions there may be an insurmountable obstacle.

But still all those who visit these places remain enthusiastic recollection of the beauty and majesty of the mountains, of fantastic sunset, on grand scree and colorful rocks. As well as strong wind and altitude sickness, and the people had to withstand this elements. People that warmed by friendship and red wine.

Is it possible to transfer all of this in the photos? You can, if you try.

See how great it turned out at our third group, under the code name "Corkscrew" ...

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