"7 Summits + 2 Poles" project news

The head of the Everest expedition of the 8000 Club Viktor Volodin reports from Nepal:

Greetings to all from the capital of Nepal — the city of Kathmandu from the 8000 CLUB team! All our small, but already friendly company gathered today at the Yak & Yety Hotel. In the first half of the day, we checked the equipment, held a briefing on the upcoming program, got to know each other.

After lunch, we walked through the bustling Thamel, a tourist area of Kathmandu, bought sim cards and missing equipment. We have received our cherished climbing permits! Over dinner we met our local partners.

Tomorrow we will have a rich excursion program in the capital, and the day after tomorrow we will start in the mountains!

The team of guides of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club arrived in Kathmandu. We settled into a hotel, sorting things out.  There is also a team of the 7 Summits Club, which leaves tomorrow to climb Mera Peak. They also got into the frame together with Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko and the doctor of the Everest expeditions Andrey Selivanov. The group was met by our best (most important) Nepalese friend Mingma Sherpa.

Dear friends, we are happy to share the news from Vitaly Lazo and his team, who are going to Mount Everest as part of the 7 Summits Club and 8000 Club groups!

 "Now drones not only fly away from us, but also... float away! Crash again — the FPV copter swam in the river. But Farit, sacrificing himself, caught the fugitive! Now we dry it — not Farit, but a drone — in a bag of rice)) Rice absorbs water well!

As a result, we spent 2 days in Namche Bazaar. We did not sit at home, and went to the neighboring village — Komjung. There we met a really interesting person, his name is Pemba Sherpa. He is 84 old and worked as a porter on the famous 1953 Everest expedition with Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. It was a great shooting day!
Today we spent the night in Dibuche, and in the morning — a trek to the village of Periche (4370 m)”

Alexander Abramov before leaving : It is amazing!  Immediately our 4 expeditions to the summits above 8000 meters begin on April 12-17. These are two expeditions of the 8000 Club. On April 12 to Everest with the leader Viktor Volodin.  And on April 17, an expedition to Makalu led by Lyudmila Korobeshko. Also, the expedition to Everest and Lhotse is organized by the 7 Summits Club. It starts on April 15. With Alexander Abramov as a leader.

That's the scope! 28 people take part in three expeditions. Good luck to everyone, the summit and a safe descent.

Lyudmila Korobeshko, Alex Abramov and Andrey Selivanov, the doctor of the Everest expedition, took part in the photo shoot.

The base camp on Everest is under construction, large tents have already been set up.  On Tuesday, April 11, the organizers and guides fly to Kathmandu. On April 15th, the main part of the Everest expeditions will start. The expedition on Makalu starts in 2 more days, on April 17th.

Vitaly Lazo and Anton Pugovkin with a small shooting and escort team are scheduled to fly to Lukla tomorrow. And from there start your march to the foot of the highest peak in the World. This year they will work in cooperation with the expeditions of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club, using our vast experience in organizing and conducting ascents of Mount Everest.  So we will be doubly worried and rooting for these outstanding athletes, wishing them the successful execution of their plans.

 One, two, three: GO! Death Zone Freeride team is pleased to announce the start of the next step of the project: an ascent and following skiing from Everest. Death Zone Freeride is the project of two Snow Leopards, Vitaly Lazo and Anton Pugovkin. On April 4, the team flew to Kathmandu to begin their way to the highest mountain in the world.

⠀During the ascent, a documentary film “Oxygen 2. Everest” will be filmed (with the support of Central Partnership, Red Media and Gazprom-Media Holding).

⠀Follow us on Instagram @deathzonefreeride

The 8000 Club has started its work. Among the first steps is a sports expedition on Mount Everest under the leadership of Viktor Volodin. The team is small, but quite capable. We wish the participants and the guide good weather, good luck!

Team members of the 8000 Club expedition on Everest

Dmitry Kurlykov. Samara.
Experience: Elbrus, Mera Peak, Kazbek, Huayna Potosi, Ararat, Tolima, Lenin, Manaslu

Svetlana Kotlyar - Vladimir region.
Director of directions in the 7 Summits Club. Mountaineer, traveler.
I visited Elbrus, Kazbek, Lenin Peak, Aconcagua, Giluva, Lhotse. I do not close the projects "7 peaks" and "7 volcanoes", but I go to iconic and beautiful peaks for me. Everest is a huge dream that has been living with me for 8 years.

Andrey Muravyev from Buryatia.
Entrepreneur, traveler. Visited about 50 countries. I'm on the Everest team. I am following the program of 7 summits - 7 continents. I completed 5 out of 7, Irian Jaya and Everest remained. There are also plans to reach the South and North Poles and close the Explorers Grand Slam program.

Victor Volodin is a guide.
One of the most famous climbers in Russia. Two-time summiter of Everest, summiter of K2 on the Western Face, on the "Russian eight-thousandth" Lhotse Middle, an experienced trainer and instructor.

Elena Kurlykova is also in the team, she will accompany her husband to the Base Camp.

The 7 Summits Club is holding its 20th anniversary expedition on Everest in 2023 under the permanent leadership of Alexander Abramov.

We present the participants of the ascent of Mount Everest

under the program "VIP Ascent of Mount Everest (8848 m)

with a man-legend Alexander Abramov"

Golov Andrey, Moscow.
Civil servant.
Experience: the program "Touching Everest".

Gyulmagomedov Kazbek, Turuf, Republic of Dagestan.
A professional helicopter pilot.
Experience: the mountains of Dagestan, many times Elbrus, Ojos del Salado.

Mishina Alla, Moscow.
Entrepreneur, presenter of a program on television.
Experience: Ojos del Salado, Vinson, Matterhorn, Kenya, Ama-Dablam.
* The only climber who climbs in the Crimea six with a dog in a backpack.

Andrey Polyakov, Pervouralsk.
Entrepreneur, head of a retail chain of construction stores.
Experience: in the mountains since 2010, Everest (from the north), Elbrus, Lenin Peak, Island Peak, Vinson, Ararat…

Participants of the program "Touching Everest. Climbing the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 2 (6400m)"

Lazarevskaya Elina, Rostov on Don.
The director of the circus.
Experience: Kilimanjaro, Crimean rocks.

Bogomolov Sergey, Saratov.
The record holder of Russia for the number of eight-thousand-meter Summits that he has climbed. It is in preparation for the expedition to K2.

In addition, our expedition will include a sports team that sets ambitious, but achievable goals. We will inform you about the details in the near future.

Team of guides:

Alexander Abramov is a guide, the head of the expedition, an eleven–time summiter of Mount Everest.
Elena Abramova is the Base Camp manager.
Andrey Selivanov is a doctor.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

A mountain school - training courses for climbing Mount Everest, Denali and Antarctica has completed its work in the Elbrus region. We were able to go autonomously with all the necessary equipment and provisions for 5 days to the area of Lake Elbrus, get up to a safe bivouac. We conducted classes on the basic principles of safe movement on ice and snow terrain, how to properly use a field kitchen and cook! For the first time, they were able to go up from the lake to the Mir station and then settle in the houses of the National Park shelter. The next day, we made an acclimatization rotation to 4600 (Pastukhov Rocks).

The weather in the region was unstable, the ascent had to be abandoned. The window for a safe ascent will only be in a few days. We went down. Unfortunately, we were met with rain and sleet...

We hope that next year there will be lower temperatures and more snow! Guides Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

Good afternoon! It snowed the night before and caused concern, but everything turned out well, and it only dusted the bivouac quite a bit. In the morning, we slowly gathered and moved up. For the first time during our events, we left not on the way up to Garabashi station, but up to the Mir station. This was facilitated by the weather and the mood of the participants!

Today we are housed in the National Park refuge, tomorrow we plan to go up.

On February 6 of this year, at 14.30 local time, as part of the 7 Summits Club group, Indira Weaver and Jamila Bashirova ascended the highest point of South America, Mount Aconcagua. Cousins, Kazakh by nationality, they come from the small village of Sosnovka, in the Semipalatinsk region, East Kazakhstan. The Semipalatinsk test site was located 200 km from Sosnovka, more than 400 nuclear tests took place there from 1949 to 1989.

  The famous Kazakh artist Karipbek Kuyukov was born 100km from the landfill, and was born without hands due to radiation from nuclear tests. As a child, he fell in love with art, and learned to draw by holding a brush in his mouth and toes. At the moment, Karipbek is an activist of the anti-nuclear movement, a speaker, an artist, and was even nominated for the Nobel Prize as an activist for peace.

 Tells Indira Weaver: Last year, during our first attempt to climb Aconcagua, we met Miguel Doura, an Argentine artist who lives and paints in the base camp. He showed great interest in the culture and traditions of the Kazakh people, and in Kazakhstan in general. Not many representatives of the Kazakh people have visited Aconcagua, and according to our data (from the Internet), only one Kazakh girl, Saphira Kanaeva from Russia, ascended on the summit in 2014.

 So the idea arose to connect two countries and two cultures through art and Aconcagua.

 After the Canaleta, where everyone left backpacks, Jamila and I took turns carrying my backpack, so there was a picture there. At Karipbek's request, after our successful ascent, the painting was donated to Miguel's private collection.   Miguel was pleasantly touched by such a gift from distant Kazakhstan, and in turn decided to draw a picture especially for Karipbek. Fortunately, Valery Myasoedov still returned to the mountain with the final group of the 7 Summits Club and was able to pick up the painting from Miguel. At the moment, the painting is with him in St. Petersburg, and soon Valera will send it directly to Karipbek in the city of Karaganda.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports:

Today, the first team of Sherpas of the expedition of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club on Everest reached the Base Camp (BC). It has been raining and snowing here for a week. The first cargo also flew to the BC by helicopter.  As usual, the glacier has changed completely in a year. All the flat places stood on end. We need to level up again.  The participants of Everest-23 arrive in Kathmandu only on April 15. And on the 17th, the start of trekking is scheduled, they will reach the Everest base camp only on April 25. That is, Sherpas can level and iron the glacier for another month. That's the hard work of our Sherpas.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

 Today, as planned, we moved "into the fields". We have reached our usual base, near the Elbrus Lake. The climb took place at a calm pace, everyone feels good, the mood is excellent. The bivouac is set up, dinner is cooked!

Your guides: Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

Greetings from Alex Abramov and Luda Korobeshko from the USA!

Simultaneously with active preparations for Everest, Makalu and K2, we are also preparing for a large-scale season in Antarctica 2023-2024. This week we met with our partners for Antarctica (ALE). We specially flew to this meeting in Salt Lake City. And we have just incredible news!

 A very large and unusual season in Antarctica is planned. In addition to our standard programs "Ascent to the highest peak of Antarctica Vinson" and expeditions to the South Pole "Last Degree", this time we will have two large groups to the highest volcano in Antarctica — Sidley.

The 7 Summits Club is the first and only company in Russia that started 20 years ago and annually organizes ascents in Antarctica on the Vinson Massif as part of the Seven Summits project and to Sidley as part of the Seven Volcanoes project.

Usually, only 8 people per year are allowed to climb Mount Sidley from all over the world.  But thanks to successful negotiations, we will have two big groups in the 2024 season!

Join us!

Dear friends!  A few words about the upcoming season in Nepal. In addition to a large number of trekking and climbing groups, the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club organize an expedition on Mount Everest and an expedition on Makalu.

We have 13 participants on Everest now, a lot of Sherpas are involved, there will be a lot of oxygen and helicopters. Alexander Abramov will be a leader.  In the team: guide Viktor Volodin, doctor Andrey Selivanov and base camp manager Lena Abramova.

On Makalu we have a team of 8 climbers, it is headed by the famous Russian climber Lyudmila Korobeshko.

As always, we organize expeditions with the best possible service.

Follow the news! 

Your Alexander Abramov.

 The first expedition of the 8000.Club project  starts on April 17^th to the fifth highest peak in the World -Makalu. Lyudmila Korobeshko will lead the team.  Mount Makalu (8,485 m) has long been famous for a long and tedious trekking approach to the base camp. However, now all issues are being resolved with the help of a helicopter. Makalu is also a record holder among eight–thousanders in terms of the number of routes climbed and their variants. However, almost all of them have been completed only once. The absolute majority of climbers use the French route of 1955. It's A Classic!  A long detour route leads along the glacier and ends with a very beautiful final part.

 Another 8000.Club group will be working on Everest at this time. The team will be led by Viktor Volodin.  They have a special sport program. This year Nepal will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.  Expedition of the 8000.Club will follow in the footsteps of the legendary Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

 You will also be able to follow the news from these expeditions on the website of the 7 Summits Club.

  About a month is left before the start of our climbing programs to the summits of the Himalayan eight-thousandthers. The first to start is the traditional expedition of the 7 Summits Club on Mount Everest under the general leadership of Alexander Abramov.  The main group will work according to the classic program of climbing on the highest peak of the World with full service and maximum possible comfort.  And we will also repeat the successful program "Touching Everest" in the past years, with overcoming the legendary Khumbu icefall and climbing to the Camp 2.  

   This year Nepal will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.  The expedition of the 7 Summits Club will follow in the footsteps of the legendary Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. We would like to be present at the celebration at the end of the expedition as full-fledged participants and happy winners!

 Also this season, the first programs of the 8000.Club project are being held:  big Makalu expedition with  Lyudmila Korobeshko as a leader and Everest by the special sports program (head Viktor Volodin).

Meanwhile, on Everest, the work of installing base camps, processing the route of ascent begins. The "Doctors of the Icefall" have already headed to the base camp to begin work in the Khumbu icefall. The Sherpa team of the 7 Summits Club gathered in Kathmandu before leaving for Lukla. The shipment of goods has begun. There is still a lot of work to be done in the preparatory period. From the photos, it can be felt that our Nepalese friends, our partners, are looking forward to the start of the expedition with great impatience.

 Introducing ourselves:

1. Club 8000 is a closed, elite club of climbers on the highest peaks of the World.

2. Only a person who has climbed on the summit above 8000 meters can become a member of the Club.

3. People who have climbed the peaks of 7000m and above can become candidates for Club membership. That's why we support the Snow Leopard project - the best high-altitude mountaineering school.

 The company "Club 8000"

Under the new project, a new organization was created, the company LLC "Club 8000".

Club 8000 is the first company in Russia that implements the most complex and prestigious project for organizing ascents of all 14 eight-thousand-meter peaks.  Every year we plan 5-6 expeditions to the peaks above 8000 meters.  All our expeditions are led by our super qualified high-altitude guides, climbers of Mount Everest, K2 and other eight-thousandth peaks. The company is headed by Alexander Abramov, the most famous leader of Himalayan expeditions in Russia, an authoritative all over the world, an 11-time climber of Mount Everest.

About 8000.club website

We have opened a new website. On it you will be able to get acquainted with all the climbing programs for 14 eight-thousand-meter and 5 seven-thousand-meter (Snow Leopard).  There will also be an opportunity to register, that is, to become a member of the Club. We will inform you about the progress of our expeditions.

Join the most ambitious and prestigious project "Climbing 14 eight-thousand-meters"!

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

Hello everyone from Tanzania! Our group of Chronic climbers has completed its journey. Yesterday we woke up in a camp at an altitude of 3800 meters in almost native tents. And after the final breakfast and the farewell ceremony with the team, we walked 12 kilometers through an incredibly beautiful forest and came to the gates of the national park, where a festive lunch was waiting for us.

And although it was a little sad that it was over, the hot shower was much more pleasing. And in the evening, at a festive dinner, the participants of the ascent were awarded. Everyone received certificates and beautiful medals. And they have already started making plans for future ascents.