"7 Summits + 2 Poles" project news

The team of Vladimir Kotlyar successfully climbed to the highest point!

Greetings from Vladimir Kotlyar, Mikhail Kornev, Georgy Sadetsky and Irina Zisman from the base camp of Mount Carstensz!

Here are photos from our international group (members gathered from Russia, Turkey, Latvia), which managed to climb to the top almost in full  stuff to the top (Uhuru peak, 5,895 m).

Photos by Igor Kharkiv...

Further photos from Alice Ivanitskaya and Shishkin Sergey...

A video with a finish song and dance winners from Konstantin Dyrgiallo

This is an excursion to the coffee farm from Alice Ivanitskaya

I was at a coffee farm today. A Cup of coffee - the hard work. Can only be overcome if a large company...

This is Alisa Ivanitskaya at the top

Airisa from Latvia on the snowy top of Kilimanjaro.

Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of  the 7 Summits Club:

Our group continues their adventures in Papua, while the Papuans had not eaten us))). We made an acclimatization trip with a short walk to the height of 3500. Now we are waiting for a helicopter from Timiku to the base camp of the mountain.

The journey continues: after meeting with the local folklore group of Vladimir Kotlyar climbed for acclimatization on the stunning mountain lake Sentani...

Unprecedented for March, the big snow can be not only in Moscow!  Groups of the 7 Summits Club were in the similar situation on Kilimanjaro. In cold conditions and zero visibility our members and guides tried to get to Uhuru peak. But not everyone succeeded! Someone managed to climb to the top and to descend back.  But some of our members was less fortunate. But, nevertheless, in these unrealistic for African conditions, our comrades managed to reach the edge of the crater - Gilmans point. Which is a great achievement! And they became witnesses a rare natural phenomenon in Tanzania-a snowstorm in Africa! Their good luck we can only envy!

The 7 Summits Club thanks Mikhail Netishinsky for the great selection of quality pictures that he sent us in return from Kilimanjaro!  And for the original slide show. Mikhail visited Tanzania in early February this year, climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and visited national parks, where he managed to make excellent shooting of local fauna…

The journey of our group under the leadership of Vladimir Kotlyar continues on the territory of the island of New Guinea, or Irian Jaya, as it is officially called. The team of four people made friends with the local "good inside" people, but it's time to do mountaineering. So now on the agenda – flight under the Pyramid Carstensz and climbing it.

 Watch and listen to Vladimir Kotlyar...

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club:  adventures of Russians in Papua begin!!!! We got to Jayapura after long and painful seats in planes and airports. The Papua met by the heat and the greenery. Such a contrast after the Russian frosty winter….

 This time we have made a special program – it starts immediately in the Papuans-cannibals, so that participants better acclimatize and get used to the world of Papuans.

Passed this stage, they will be admitted to the subsequent ascent to the highest point of Australia and Oceania - Pyramid Carstensz.

 Members of the expedition:

 Irina Zisman (great Amazon, recently returned from South America and Antarctica with Vinson and Aconcagua in his belt);

Irina - beauty Ambassador at the Seven Summits

 George Sadetsky (who has already climbed Everest and Vinson);

 Mikhail Kornev (just few days as ascended of Orizaba with Sergei Larin).

On March 2, Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko showed themselves to the St. Petersburg audience. At the invitation of our friends from the company "Red Fox" they performed in the store Planet Sport. The lecture was originally supposed to be dedicated to the speed record set by team Alpari, headed by Lyudmila Korobeshko in 2012. But Alexander Abramov at the last moment introduced the topic adjustments. "Seven Summits in seven weeks. The impossible is possible" - at first I thought that it was some kind of joke. But listen for yourself (in Russian):

Nastya Kuznetsova, guide and Manager of Club 7 Vershin:

News from Tanzania, from the group of Nikolai Sokolov.  And some more information on the end of the season on Kilimanjaro.

 Yesterday on March 1th Nikolay Sokolov's group went down from the mountain and returned to civilization where they were waited by a shower, a festive dinner and pure warm bed. Everyone was tired, but satisfied and happy. According to them everything was cool, but suddenly hard!  On the slopes they had to work out in full, but immediately it is clear that all the efforts and careful preparation were not in vain.

 I would also like to note that for this season January / February 2018 (2 months!) with the 7 Summits Club, more than 100 people climbed the highest peak of the African continent!!!!

And HORROR! We even miss our bronze medals of the 7 Summits Club “For climbing Kilimanjaro”, which we sent to Tanzania for the upcoming season. We offer our deepest apologies in advance to the groups that have successfully reached the summit and are now going down for the imprudent mistake on our part. But, of course, all participants will be awarded.

Every climber will be invited to the ceremony in person!

A message from Nikolai Sokolov. February 28th, 10: 16. Nikolay Sokolov's team has climbed today to the highest peak of Africa, UHURU peak (5,895 m), all together, and they are now on the descent. Part of the group has already returned to the base camp of Barafu, some still on the way. After 3 hours, all should all be in the Millennium camp at 3800 m. The Weather is good!

 From us: we wish everyone a safe descent and completion of the program!

Five groups of the 7 Summits Club went to Africa a few days ago. And so we got the first reports of success on Kilimanjaro.

 21 Feb Tolkunova Yuliya and Tatyana Osharova successfully summited the highest peak in Africa Kilimanjaro along the shortest and sports route - Marangu at 5 days.

  Through the day, members of the group of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Voskresenskiy and Andrei Markov have successfully made the ascent by the Machame route.  All the details of the expedition You can see in the photos by Sergei Voskresensky…

The team of Japanese mountaineers, who climbed to the highest summit of Antarctica mount Vinson under the leadership of Alexander Abramov, included one unusual person.  Unusual appearance it could cause a question, whether everything is in order with her head.  Don't worry, it's all only a game! But the game is not amateur, but very professional.  Ayako Imoto is a real star of Japanese television. Moreover, the star is in comedy plan, professionally trained and with experience as a comedian on television for more than 10 years.

In 2007, she started working with a team called Sekai no hate made itteq, which means I couldn't figure out exactly. But judging by the videos, their range of interests is quite wide. With regard to Imoto, she was given the image of a naive girl in a popular apparel: mix school uniforms and sailor. And most importantly, distinctive feature – a strange and  hard painted eyebrows. Over time, another feature of her specialization was determined. The plot of the program was based on adventures in different natural places, contact with animals, people of different cultures. Humor was side by side with serious stories.

In 2009, the television team together with Ayako made a successful expedition to Africa with the ascent of Kilimanjaro. After that, there were born "Napoleonic plans" - and why not "seven summits"? In 2011, with great difficulty they climbed Mount Aconcagua and began to prepare for Everest. In the fall of 2013, they successfully climbed to Manaslu. And the next spring the team went to Everest, from the South, of course. It is known that that year almost everything, except one Chinese woman, stopped ascension after the tragedy which carried away lives of the whole group of Sherpas. Imoto also wanted to continue the assault on the summit, but the leadership decided to bring this issue to the vote of the viewers. And the majority turned to the expedition to stop. Apparently, the second attempt will be soon. After Everest, Ayako went to the other two key peaks of the project: Denali and Vinson. Will she end the project with Elbrus? In any case, Welcome to Russia!

And  a small trailer turned out from this season expedition:

Season of the 7 Summits Club on Aconcagua successfully completed. Most of the participants of our two groups successfully reached the top, all of them came home alive and healthy. Working with our second group, our guide Vladimir Kotlyar led the regular video diary, which we combined into a single narrative:

Elena Mitrofanova was climbing Kilimanjaro in a team with Valentin Mamrak and Mary Zisman in the new year period and at the beginning of 2018. On her Facebook page, she published a small report, in the form of diary entries and individual notes. She also has published a collection of beautiful photos made with taste and invention. Be sure to see the entire gallery…

Hello, Seven Summits! There's a broadcast coming in. We did it, we stand at the top. Valery Myasoedov, Svetlana Tatum and Vladimir Kotlyar are on the highest point of South America at the top of mount Aconcagua.

Weather is so-so. But nothing, we're going down now, slowly. Snow cover us a little, clouds sucked. But we are happy, glad, we did what we came here for. For me and Valera  it is a double celebration. We ended the season with a successful third ascent to this beautiful mountain. So, wait for us soon at home! All hugs, kisses, miss you and love!

Olga Rumyantseva, guide and manager of the 7 Summits Club, our representative in the international women's expedition to the North pole:

 First, any one of the team certainly did not expect such training.  The whole day of the snow storm. Other groups who find themselves in nature, were evacuated by rescuers. The road was closed. The tent broke.  We could move freely only on all fours and very brief. Inadvertently raised shovel leads to a decrease in this situation. We dig up, holding the tent, the rescue was not required. In general, it was a good training. . Hopefully on the way to the pole we did not encounter such mess...

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Hello Seven Summits Club  and everyone who watches our video diary! Ku-ku! We are at the top of Aconcagua with Cyril.

The weather is perfect!

We caught this weather window.…

Five and a half hours and we're on top.

Kirill is an animal, simply. The fire horse.

Weather... I’ve never been in such weather on this mountain. Honestly word! Warm, no wind at all. I mean, we got the perfect window. Now we are going to go down, because in a few days I may make a re-ascent. We should get some rest tonight.

Anastasia and Konstantin Lapko stood on top of Kilimanjaro on February 8, 2018. They went up by the shortest route, Marangu (in sport version - in 5 days) and successfully coped with this difficult task. Then Anastasia and Konstantin went on a Safari through the parks of Tanzania and are now returning home. Congratulations on the summit and wish you further achievements!

 Anastasia Lapko: Oh, everything was just great!!! We are now at Dubai airport. Guides - well done!!! A huge thanks to them! For me, this ascent turned out to be much easier than Elbrus, as a walk. But my husband covered by mountain sickness. But if I was not a biochemist and not taking pills, he could not be reached the summit. Although the figures were the same for we all (me, husband, and guide). It was great! We are insanely happy!

Olga Rumyantseva, representative of Russia and the 7 Summits Club in the international women's expedition to the North pole:

From the plane - in the campaign.

Just arrived in Iceland, and here I am already at business.

Not being burden much information, I ran shipping sleigh.

At the same time I came in the story hit. I am in the picture. Here I am in the background in green cap  )))

We drove three hours in a blizzard, in the dark. So about Iceland I can only say only that it is dark and cold.

 Tomorrow morning the fun begins. We'll put on skis, get in a sled and go somewhere.

 But I'll tell about it later. It’s seems there will be no connectivity next days.

News from Tanzania. Another group of 7 summits Club successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Members of the expedition received their diplomas. We congratulate them on the summit and wish them continued success!