"7 Summits + 2 Poles" project news

Andrey Berezin, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Argentina:

Buenos Dias! Our group called "Brain Storm" went to the foot of the highest peak in South America - Aconcagua.  After we received permits and permission to visit the Horcones National Park, we drove from hot Mendoza to windy Penitentes in three hours, where we stayed in glamping. We spent the night and arrived at the Horcones National Park in the morning, registered and walked to the Confluencia camp in three hours. We will spend two days here, and then go up to the base camp of the Plaza de Mulas. The guides of the group are Andrey Berezin and Sergey Avtomonov.

Buenos Dias from sunny Mendoza!  The climbing season of the 7 Summits Club in the Southern Hemisphere begins. Today, all the members of the first Aconcagua group gathered in Mendoza. The guides met the participants, checked the equipment, collected and shipped the cargo for the base camp. Tomorrow we will receive permits for climbing.  And we go to the foot of Aconcagua.

And also today we wished happy birthday to our climbing partner Anna.

Guides: Andrey Berezin, Sergey Avtomonov and Valery Myasoedov.

The Antarctic season of the 7 Summits Club has begun!!! Yesterday, our guide and the most experienced polar explorer Artem Rostovtsev arrived at the edge of the world and the starting point of expeditions to Antarctica, in the southernmost (mainland) city of the world - Punta Arenas.

In a few days, the participants of the first expedition will arrive - a ski trip to the South Pole. Then, according to the plan, we will have two more large groups of climbers to the highest point of Antarctica - the Vinson Massif. And also after Christmas, the highlight of our season in Antarctica starts - the largest Russian expedition to the highest volcano in Antarctica, Sidley. Several members of this team are planning to complete the 7 Volcanoes project!!! At the moment only 8 people in Russia have been able to complete this project. Now there are only 42 such lucky people in the world.

P.S. - Meetings with interesting people often happen in Antarctica. We wish Artyom and our teams the most unexpected and pleasant Antarctic meetings!

Buenos Dias from sunny Mendoza! Here, the guides of the 7 Summits Club continue to prepare for the season on Aconcagua.  They bought food, checked and packed expedition equipment, and prepared gifts for the participants of the programs. The guides of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov, Valery Myasoedov and Andrey Berezin will work with the first groups. The first participants are due to arrive on December 12th.

On November 25, 2023, the ZIL Palace of Culture hosted a gala evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation in honor of the 100th anniversary of Russian mountaineering. As part of the event, the President of the 7 Summits Club, Alexander Abramov, presented commemorative badges to the climbers who climbed Mount Everest and other eight-thousand-meter peaks in 2023. The 7 Summits Club was the main organizer of the gala evening and made a decisive contribution to the successful holding of the event. See the photo gallery of the works of the photographer Svyetoslav Velesov.

In the spring of 2024, an International Chess Tournament will be held on Everest with the support of FIDE.  According to the scheme "Mountaineering + Chess". The tournament will begin at the Everest Base Camp with 1/4 finals. Then each new round will take place in the next high-altitude camp. The finalists will play in the Everest assault camp and then will have the opportunity to climb Everest. The prize fund of the tournament is $ 150,000

If you want to participate, register on the website of the 7 Summits Club.

The organizers are "7 Summits Club" and "Security Code".

 The video shows the President of the 7 Summits Club Alex Abramov and the CEO of the Security Code company Andrey Golov.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Evgeny Fedyunin reports from Tanzania:

 04.11. Jambo Rafiki! The group "Saber-Toothed Koloboks" of the 7 Summits Club, today passed the moorland zone, heather thickets and jungles, descending to Marangu Gate 1879m. Then we returned to our native hotel Aisha Machame (Moshi), settled down and had a little rest.

We held an award ceremony in the evening, everyone is happy! Tomorrow someone has a safari, someone has excursions, someone is just resting! New horizons are ahead! Good luck to everyone!

And on the day of the assault, yesterday, our participant Evgeny had a birthday! A good start, a Personal New Year!

Urgent! There is a summit! The team of the 7 Summits Club climbed the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro volcano (5895 m). Three of the four team members were standing on Uhuru Peak at nine in the morning and the whole group visited the edge of the crater at Stella Point.

The ascent was made in difficult weather conditions. Now the group has just descended to the Horombo camp (3800 m), everyone is tired and soaked in the rain. Now dinner and a well-deserved rest.

Details follow! The information was transmitted by the group guide Evgeny Fedyunin.

The Guide of the 7 Summits Club Evgeny Fedyunin reports from Tanzania:

 2.11. Jambo Rafiki! The group "Saber-Toothed Koloboks" of the 7 Summits Club, today climbed through fields covered with volcanic ash, through the saddle between two Summits of the Kilimanjaro massif - Mavenzi (5145m) and Kibo (5895m). Now we are in the assault camp – Kibo hut (4700 m), preparing for the ascent! In the night – an exit to the summit assault! Wish us good luck!

The Guide of the 7 Summits Club Evgeny Fedyunin reports from Tanzania:

 1.11. Jambo Rafiki! The Saber-Toothed Koloboks group of the 7 Summits Club went radially to Zebra rocks today, and above, to the view point at an altitude of 4300m. It offers excellent views of Kilimanjaro 5895m and Mavenzi 5145m. We are still resting in the Horombo camp at an altitude of 3720 meters. Tomorrow we will move to the Kibo 4700m assault camp. All participants are in a good mood and physical condition.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Evgeny Fedyunin reports from Tanzania:

31.10. Jambo Rafiki! The Saber-Toothed Koloboks group of the 7 Summits Club left the equatorial jungle today. We walked through the heather thickets, crossing the moorland zone (grassy marshes), along a wide path to the Horombo hut (3720m). On the way we met a small chameleon and very impudent ravens. Today we finally saw the Kibo cone — the summit of Kilimanjaro!

Everyone is in a good mood and ready for further acclimatization.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Evgeny Fedyunin reports from Tanzania:

Jumbo Rafiki! Greetings from Africa! A group of the 7 Summits Club with an uncertain name started today on the Marangu route. After issuing permits, we went to the equatorial jungle. The walk to the first overnight stay of Mandara Hut (2750 m) took 4 hours. At the beginning everything was fine, but in the last 15 minutes a tropical downpour was turned on... Apparently, the season of short rains begins a little bit. On the way we met two families of monkeys watching us closely! Tomorrow we go higher at 3700, to the Horombo camp.

Greetings from Tanzania from the 7 Summits Club group "Zvyaginstein's Adventures"! Today, the group successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Everyone is healthy, happy and has already gone down to the camp! Details tomorrow!

Olga Rumyantseva, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, sends from Tanzania:

Greetings from the Zvyanginstein Adventures group to everyone from Tanzania! Today we went up to the assault camp of Kosovo at an altitude of 4900 meters, from where we will go out at night to climb. Everyone feels good. It's snowing outside, but we hope that the weather will improve by the time we leave.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

 Greetings to all from Tanzania from the Zvyaginstein Adventures group! This morning we made a climb up the Baranko wall - a march with light climbing elements. After climbing the wall, we continued our way to the Karanga camp (4035m). Unfortunately, we were covered by a cloud, so our way passed without any views.

In the camp, the cloud never left. Therefore, we spent the rest of the day mentally preparing for tomorrow's climbing to the assault camp and for the summit, hiding from the drizzling rain.

The-guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

 Greetings from Tanzania, from the Zvyaginstein Adventures team! The second day of our ascent to Kilimanjaro. As usual, in the morning we parted with our bunnies, who warmed us all night, had breakfast, held a medical check-up and went for a walk. We climbed through the beautiful places to the Shira camp at an altitude of 3900 meters.

In the camp we rested a little and went for a walk a little more, to look at the cave and other beautiful views.  After the walk, we had a traditional ceremony of getting to know the team.  In total, 42 people work with our group, thanks to which climbing Kilimanjaro becomes incredibly comfortable.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

 Greetings from Tanzania from the slopes of Kilimanjaro!  Today, a new group of the 7 Summits Club called "Zvyaginstein's Adventures" has entered the route. In the morning we left the hotel, drove to the gates of the National park, checked our belongings and started climbing the mountain to the Machame camp.

The road on the first day goes through the jungle, where there is a lot of greenery and mossy trees. But closer to the camp, the trees become lower, and the jungle ends. In five hours we reached the camp. That was the end of our first day.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

 Greetings from Tanzania from the "Russian crocodiles"!  That's the end of our trip to Kilimanjaro.  This morning we woke up at the Millennium Camp at 3800. After climbing and a sleepless night, sleep was especially sweet. But we didn't have to sleep long.

In the morning, we were waiting for a farewell ceremony with the team. Many songs were sung and many kind words were said.  And then we walked through the jungle for almost 15 kilometers to the exit from the national park.  Today is Stanislav's birthday. So our trip ended with a birthday cake.

In the evening, an award ceremony will be held for all participants of the ascent. And tomorrow everyone will leave - some will go home, and some will continue their journey through Tanzania and go on safari.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Andrey Berezin reports from the Elbrus region:

News of the Elbrus region.  The group "Sweet dreams" successfully climbed to the top of Elbrus.  The weather was beautiful. From the summit there were stunning views of the entire Main Caucasian Ridge, as well as the surrounding area.  This is the end of the season of the 7 Summits Club on Elbrus. In October, the season for our guides begins in Nepal.  See you again in the mountains!

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

Greetings from Tanzania from Russian crocodiles! Today our group made a full ascent on the top of Kilimanjaro. It was not easy and very cold (hello to everyone who doubts whether to take a warm down jacket to Tanzania), but incredibly beautiful.

After climbing, we went down to the assault camp, rested for a while and continued on our way to the Millennium camp, where we had a long-awaited rest.