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Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Punta Arenas: Expedition on the Vinson Massif, while from Fin del mundo, aka the edge of the world, is in touch. According to the plan, we have to fly to Antarctica tomorrow. We are waiting for the promised news from the pilots of the aircraft, and they took a break for 1-2 hours to make a decision. What makes us worry a little. We are in full readiness, all the freight forwarding is packed, weighed, delivered.  We would like to fly tomorrow and calmly act according to the plan.

Artem Rostovtsev, super-guide of the 7 Summits Club from Punta Arenas: Antarctic programs of the 7 Summits Club begins. Ahead we have 4 expeditions on the Vinson Massif, an expedition on the Sidley volcano, an expedition The Last Degree to the South Pole on skis.

The advanced small group has already gathered and is located in the windy city of Punta Arenas, a free translation into Russian is "the edge of the earth". Before the arrival of the group, we managed to find and prepare the expedition equipment, purchased and are preparing products for shipment. An exciting moment: will it be possible after a two-year break to immediately find the equipment left and buried on the slopes of Vinson? Therefore, we have to duplicate it. In any case, it will all come in handy during the season. Every day in the morning we do a PCR test, everyone should get to Antarctica "clean". And we begin to hold our fists and occasionally pray for not always stable weather at the beginning of the season. The flight to the White Continent is scheduled for November 26th, let it be so. Greetings from the ends of the earth from the guide Artem Rostovtsev and the team!

 Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club. This morning, at 7:00, the group climbed  the summit of Mount Ararat in severe weather conditions. The wind tried to lift me up and move me a little, and so for a whole hour in a row, while we were on the top and near it. All but one (the youngest participant) ascended.  We have already descended to the camp 3300m, in good health and mood.

Greetings from the slopes of Ararat! Yesterday's plan to walk to the assault camp and back was fulfilled.  We reached the iconic point "to the peak of 1000m" and calmly returned to the camp of 3300m. On the descent, the young part of the team was interviewed by a German television correspondent who was interested in how teenagers succeed walks in the mountains. Answer: It succeed easily. Today we are going to the upper camp and at night to storm the summit.

Greetings from the slopes of Ararat from the group of Artem Rostovtsev! Yesterday we moved to the slopes of the mountain and slowly, so as not to get tired, we went to the Camp1 at 3300m. Everything went well and all the participants went perfectly. Only we got wet and froze a little under a downpour with a thunderstorm. But the rain beat the dust, and it was more comfortable to walk. Today, in the plan, we will have an acclimatization walk to the upper camp, which we are currently doing.

The group of the 7 Summits Club made an ascent on the summit of Kazbek according to the VIP program. Our guide Artem Rostovtsev led the assault on the summit and sent a series of photos.

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club:  Greetings from Georgia! Mount Kazbek. Refuge Meteostation, 3650m.  We are gradually moving towards the top. Yesterday we reached the hut AltiHut 3014, we did not stop there and took a walk to the glacier before dinner. Today we have already moved to the refuge Meteostation. We gained a little more acclimatization, went up to 3900m to the church and enjoyed the views. We'll continue tomorrow.

Artem Rostovtsev, a guide of the 7 Summits Club: Gamarjoba! Georgia is on the line, an expedition on Kazbek. Yesterday, the team gathered in Tbilisi and moved to Stepantsminda near Kazbek. We have equipped ourselves at the rental office, and now we are ready to go up. It remains to do the necessary PCR tests upon arrival in Georgia and the road to the top will be open.

On June 1, 2021, the second group of the 7 Summits Club expedition "Everest – Lhotse 2021" climbed on the summit of Mount Everest.

They were Ekaterina Kalabukhova, guide of the 7 Summits Club  Artem Rostovtsev and four Sherpas. Thank you for the video taken during the ascent, it is clear that sometimes shooting was very difficult!

Artem Rostovtsev, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal: The second small group from the 7 Summits Club Everest expedition (Ekaterina Kalabukhova, Artem Rostovtsev + 4 Sherpas) has reached its goal. Early in the morning on the first day of summer, we climbed on the top of Mount Everest.  We had to endure a little, a little more than a week, bad weather in Camp-2 at an altitude of 6500m. But we managed to hold the strength. The weather after that gave only one and a half fine days, which we took advantage of.

 The team Everest of the 7 Summits Club "Everest-Lhotse 2021" expedition  led by Alexander Abramov spent a day in Camp 2 (6500m). The participants ' conditions gets only better. But, unfortunately, in the coming days, a favorable weather window for reaching the summit is not promised. The plan for tomorrow is to go down a little -  to Camp 1 and monitoring the weather from there. And to plan the start of climbing, based on forecasts and the current situation.

The first Everest team under the leadership of Alex Abramov today safely passed through the Khumbu icefall and reached the first camp at an altitude of 6100m. Everyone feels well. Tomorrow they go to Camp 2.

Pictures from acclimatization rotation

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal: Greetings from the Everest 2021 team from the slopes of Chomolungma! For the last few days, we've been completely out of touch with the outside world.  We found high-altitude acclimatization along the famous slopes of Mount Everest: the Khumbu Icefall, the Valley of Silence, the Lhotse Wall... We've been everywhere more than once. The team has fulfilled the acclimatization plan - we have a high-altitude overnight stay in the third camp (7100 m). Now we go down to rest.

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal:  News of the Everest-2021 expedition. Huge greetings to all! Over the past three days, we made an important acclimatization rotation and consolidated our success with an overnight stay in the Camp-2 at 6500m. There is no way to bypass the Khumbu icefall on the way up and down, there is only one way. And this path changes every day, the glacier creeps about a meter a day, and sometimes the seraks fall... While we were climbing, everyone was a little worried, but everything went smoothly. Overnight stays at 6100 and 6500 are a credit to us, and now a well-deserved rest in the base camp.

 Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal:  Last night we planned to go up to Camp 6000 and the next day to Camp 6400. That's just the plan with the rotation exit failed, as late in the evening the Khumbu icefall moved a little. The prepared route was partially destroyed and required repairs from a team of Icefall Doctors.

As a result, we did not go out at night, but already in the light and just with an introductory task. We only looked at the icefall, tried it a little, and then returned to the camp. At night, we go according to yesterday's plan, already knowing a little what awaits us.

 The group "Lhotse 8516" led by Lyudmila Korobeshko also goes up tomorrow. Today they held ice classes, and after lunch they rested and prepared for the upcoming exit.

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club, Everest 2021 Expedition, from Nepal: Lobuche is a mountain, the Eastern peak of which is 6119 meters high. To climb it on the way to the Everest base camp, it was in our plans. But it turned out that the weather made its own plans without coordinating with ours. Yesterday we went up to the assault camp, where we were covered with snowfall, instead of the predicted strong wind. The snow continued early in the morning, and we had to postpone the ascent. Until better times. We went downstairs. And now it's winter all around. We have the main goal ahead - Everest.  In the meantime, we have a plan to arrive at Everest base camp tomorrow.

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club: Greetings from the Everest-2021 group! We woke up today with a beautiful view of Ama Dablam and hit the road. It seemed that it would be cold, but the whole day was again cloudless and the sun was shining. Again, the beautiful majestic Himalayan peaks were shown from all sides. To be honest, I'm tired of answering the team's questions: "What mountain is this? And where is this mountain? "By the way, a few words about our team. So far, in general terms. The team consists of 15 people, three guides, 8 climbers and 4 climbers. Representatives of 4 countries: Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Israel and Uzbekistan.

Today we spend the night at an altitude of 4920 m, in Lobuch. Before dinner, we went to check out just above 5000 m, at the same time to look at the base camp of Everest, from afar.

Artem Rostovtsev, a guide of the expedition from Nepal: Greetings from the Everest-2021 group! We are climbing higher and higher, at the same time closer to Everest. Today we passed an endless number of panoramic points with views of many mountains, including Mount Everest. But Everest was usually hidden behind cloud cover. Opposite, views of Ama Dablam pleased us almost all walking day. The weather changes like usually in the mountains, suddenly and dramatically. But so far it is predictable:  it is good until lunch, then – precipitation start. Precipitation is still wet, not snowy, so we try to move in the first half of the day. Today, on the way, we looked into the Tengboche Monastery, someone to take a look, someone for the blessing of our expedition. Tomorrow we will continue our route "higher and closer".

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal: Everest Expedition 2021. The whole team is finally here. Permits are received, PCR tests are passed, bags are packed and sent. Yesterday there was the grand opening party of our expedition. The Russian Ambassador to Nepal and his wife were present, and parting words were spoken to the participants of the expedition. And now we are about to move to the airport.