"7 Summits + 2 Poles" project news

Members of thr 7 Summits Club Natalia and Igor Smirnov climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in november of 2013 by Machame route.

An expedition of the Belarusian company GURTAM took place at 22-28th of February. They climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and have a business-confernce in hotel. Alexandra Sak was a guide of the group.

Just called Artem Rostovtsev . The group of Artem is OK, they went down to 4000 m. In the morning, they were on the SUMMIT!. There was very strong wind . But … all right. Today, they descend to Mweka. Tomorrow I meet them at the Mweka gate.

And about the group without our guide, who arrived in Tanzania on 24th of February. Two members - Yangirov Nail and Galia already flown home. Beymuratovy Camille and Victoria went on safari Prokuschenko Sergey is now near poolside at the hotel.

All are happy

Hello! This is Alexander Sack Kilimanjaro. This morning we climbed to the highest point of Kilimanjaro Uhuru Peak. There was a strong wind and very beautiful sunrise. We all tired, but very happy. Now we are descending to Horombo. Have dinner and go to bed. Bye, bye!

Hi! This is Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club. We are now at the Marangu Gate. Just 5-10 minutes and we quietly go up along the standard, all favorite route Marangu. We will have to spend the night on the 2700 Mandara hut. Hello!

The group consists of four members: Alexey Ponomarev, Cyril Vdovin, and Arkady Dudin and Catherine Lunegova.

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The second group followed immediately behind the first, with a small interval .... On January 23, the participants met with the guide of 7 Summits Club Vladimir Kotlyar in Mendoza. On February 5 in heavy weather conditions (strong wind) our guys made their way to the top of Aconcagua. Well done!

The 7 Summits Club guide Vladimir Kotlyar sent photos of the first ascent of the season on Aconcagua .... The expedition took place from 3th to 18th of January. The team consisted of 8 people. January, 15 brothers Vladimir and Konstantin Lavrentjevs, Gennady Anuchin, Denis Kiriyenko and Vladimir Kotlyar reached the summit.

Hi! This is a guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Sack  from Tanzania. Today, 35 of the 36 members of our expedition were at the top of Kilimanjaro. With the weather we were lucky. The mountain was in a good mood. In general, all participants are happy, though tired . Now we get down below in Mweka camp. Tomorrow we plan to go down already in civilization, in Moshi. All is well, all right. Hello! Bye!

"Sparta - a project for men to develop confidence and overcome fears.

For 4 years we spent Sparta project more than 140 training programs in Russia and the CIS, and alumni of the project were about 4,000 people from dozens of cities. "

Here you can find more information about the project - http://spartarussia.ru/index.php

Top coaches project Sparta Anton Razor (Rudanov) and Ed Halimov headed group climbed Kilimanjaro

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, from an expedition to Aconcagua. Today there was a long day, and the mountain showed its severe character . Nevertheless, our group climbed the top. Today, except us, at top there were 4 more persons … That is, four Canadians were after us. There was very strong wind, all groups cancelled and turned back from the trail. It was little confusing. But we decided to try our good luck. And good luck smiled to us, we reached the top.

Now we went down on Plaza de Mulas and tomorrow we plan to go to the warm Mendoza. We want to warm a little our bones because were frozen to horror. Generally, all thanks who worried about us! Good luck!

Hello! Today we begin our first expedition on Kilimanjaro organizing by our new Tanzanian office. This will be a record by number of participants expedition. 36 young climbers (Spartans) from different cities of Russia ! They arrived today from different parts of Tanzania and even Kenya. Clear, that the day before they arrived in Africa from Russia.

A few hours later we were at the gates of the National Park at Machame Gate. Our young Spartans went to the assault of the "roof of Africa" on the beautiful Machame route. By the way, many of them decided to go in sporty style - with heavy backpacks, without using " slave labor ", as they said.

Wait for messages from the mountain on the further adventures of the Spartans from the guide of 7 Summits Club Sasha Sac!

Luda Korobeshko

Lyudmila Korobeshko: Hello from Tanzania! Today the group of 36 people under the leadership of our representative in Tanzania and our guide Sasha Sak goes to a way!

The expedition starts from here - from a cafe Union...

And we open representation of the 7 summits Club in Tanzania...

On a photo - Sasha at Tanzanian office...

At the end of October 2013, an ascent of the western summit of the "two-peaked mountain" was made by experienced mountain climbers: Karina Mezova, who has climbed to the summit of Mount Elbrus 130 times, and Abdul-Khalim Elmezov, President of the Climbing Federation of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Both climbers are close friends of the 7 Summits Club, both are Everest summiters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCA4W9ltGKA&feature=youtu.be

Russia Today

http://rt.com/news/olympic-torch-mount-elbrus-511/

A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter relay on October 25, 2013 and released by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, shows torchbearers carrying an Olympic torch at the Elbrus Mount in Russia's North Caucasus region. (AFP Photo/Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee)

With the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi just round the corner, the Olympic Flame has been lit at the summit of the highest point in Europe, Mount Elbrus, which lies in the Greater Caucasus mountain range.

During the relay, the longest in Olympic history, the Olympic torch has been seen at the International Space Station, in outer space, on the bottom of Lake Baikal, at the main Buddhist temple and monastery in the Republic of Buryatia, on top of Avachinsky volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and at the North Pole.

A team of five experienced mountaineers has also reached the summit of Mount Elbrus with the Olympic Flame in a special lantern, the Torch Relay Committee revealed on Saturday.

Although commonly known as a mountain, Mount Elbrus is in fact a layered volcano, which last erupted about 2,000 years ago. It has long been a challenge for climbers from across the world, with the first documented ascent of the eastern summit in 1829. The slightly higher western peak was first conquered in 1874.

The plan to take the Olympic Flame to the western peak of Elbrus, at an altitude of 5,642 meters above sea level, was developed separately from the main Olympic Torch Relay route to have a chance to choose the best possible weather conditions for the climb.

At the end of October 2013, a Russian team of mountain climbers made an ascent of the western summit of Elbrus. One of the mountaineers, Karina Mezova, has climbed to the summit of Elbrus 130 times; the other, the president of the Climbing Federation of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Abdul-Khalim Elmezov, has climbed Elbrus more than 220 times.

A total of 14,000 torch bearers have taken part in the 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, with the oldest participant aged 101. Meanwhile, the average pace of the Olympic Torch Relay is 534 kilometers a day, with a variety of means of transportation available to ship it, including the traditional Russian three-horse sled, the troika, dog sled and reindeer sled, a hot air balloon, an amphibious motorboat, a medieval “ladya” Russian sailboat, a motorbike, a water scooter, a wakeboard, a ski bike, a snowmobile, as well as a snow-and-swamp buggy, just to name a few.

The 2014 Olympic Torch Relay has been hosted by 135 cities located in all of Russia’s 83 federal subjects. The longest nonstop leg of the relay spanned 2,055 kilometers, between the cities of Norilsk and Yakutsk in the Russian Far East.

On the official site of the Torchrelay of Sochi2014

http://torchrelay.sochi2014.com/en/photo-and-video#video=the-olympic-flame-has-been-lit-at-mt-elbrus

Hello! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, the guides of the expedition to Aconcagua. Today we went from Nido de Кондорес to Cholera, it was for acclimatization reason. We went briskly enough, went down and now we are on the Plaza de Mulas. We are resting, eating etc. In General, the group restores strength prior to storm the summit. We are all well. Tomorrow we plan to have a day of rest. The weather is good, that's good. Mow it is windy. Weather forecasters promise the next three days strong wind. On the scheduled day of the ascent it should be “a window”. Goodbye!

2013 inscribed very dark page in the history of mountaineering: in Pakistan, at the foot of the mountain Nanga Parbat terrorists shot 10 climbers from different countries. Among them three were from Ukraine, from the city of Kharkiv, one of which, Igor Svergun was a close friend of our Club. We honor his memory. In December in Kharkov they published a book about Igor and his friends. Now you can buy it in our Club (Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya street, the house 7, 2nd floor).

It should be noted that it is a charitable project and all funds received from the realization of the project will be transferred to a family of Igor Svergun.

Igor Svergun

(1966-2013)

Master of sports in mountaineering (1989), MS international level (1991), instructor-methodologist of the 3rd category. Igor started climbing in 1984 in section climbing club of the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute. The first ascent was made on the Peak Semenov-Bashi. First instructor – G. Artemenko. Climb in the Himalayas: Lhotse South face - up to the height of 8,200 m, 1990; traverse Manaslu (with V. Pastukh and A. Makarov) - 1991; Everest, South peak - 8790 m, 1992; Dhaulagiri, 8167, 1994; Annapurna (Bonington route), 1996; Shishapangma (in Alpine style), and Ама Dablam and Pumori, 1998; Cho Oyu, 8201 m, 2004; Everest, 8848 meters, NE Ridge, 2005 and 2006 (as a guide of the 7 summits Club). Igor had made in the mountains of 25 routes highest grade difficulty. In 1999, during Ukrainian ascent on Everest Igor participated in the unprecedented transportation of V. Gorbach from the height of 8600 meters. His climbing achievements were awarded with government awards of the USSR and Ukraine.

In August we visited the graves of Kharkiv climbers:

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the program Ascent of Aconcagua. Today with the group we went on acclimatization hike to the Plaza France. We climbed the height 4100. Up we walked for five hours and a half, half an hour sat there, drank tea, ate and went down for two hours and a half. After that, the doctor examined the group. Indicators all excellent, the group is just like the astronauts! You can all send after Aconcagua to the moon. In General, the mood is all excellent, ready to fight. We send greetings to our Homeland!

The Club leaders has long been traveling. During this time, Russia received one more winner of the Seven summits. This is Igor Kadochin. Dima Ermakov, as a guide of the group climbing the final peak of The Seven - Mount Vinson, this is promptly informed in the day of climbing. Now we all join in the congratulations! New achievements, new heights!

Banner of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on top of the world. Igor Kadochin picked it up.

Igor Kadochin - Director of LLC Trade house «Sun» in this glorious city. Igor was one of the heroes of the seven summits, you can see on our Chronicles, how cruel tests they were offered: Aconcagua, McKinley, Everest.... All overcame. Hero!

The group came to Mendoza, this is end of expedition. One of summiters Genis Kirienko sent by facebook some pictures from the climb...

Seven Summits Club, this is Vladimir Kotlyar. Hello! We went to the Plaza de Mulas. Now we have a hot shower, a good dinner, bottle of wine, a steak. In General, everything is fine. Today we will spend the night here , relax, collect things and tomorrow we get back to civilization. In General, it is the successful completion of the journey. All the best!

Seven Summits Club, Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar from Aconcagua. We are on the top of the highest peak of South America Mount Aconcagua. With me: brothers Lavrentievs, Vladimir and Constantine, Anuchin Gennady and Denis Kirienko. Thanks for the support and organization of travel to all employees of the Club! Thank you! We begin the descent. All the best!

Hello, Club!  This is Vladimir Kotlyar from Aconcagua. We have the good  weather here in the base camp. We went for a rest day in the Plaza de Mulas. The group will go up tomorrow, but not in full. Roman flew down by a rescue helicopter. In his lungs fluid began to accumulate. In general, the further climb was unsafe. In all others -  everything is fine. Guys are healthy,  they are in the mood of fighting. We hope for good weather. All the best! Thank you all!