Luda Korobeshko

On November 29, at the gala evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation, the main national award of the year, the Golden Ice Axe of Russia, was presented. The winner was the team of climbers who completed the first ascent of the eight-thousander Manaslu via a new route. It should be noted that before the main ascent, they reached the summit via the standard route without supplemental oxygen. We congratulate team leader Andrey Vasiliev and participants Natalia Belyankina, Sergey Kondrashkin, Vitaly Shipilov, and Kirill Eiseman! We wish you success in your future projects and look forward to any collaboration in the high mountains!

We congratulate our most active summit collector in recent years! In 2023, Galymzhan Kuspanov joined the 7 Summits Club programs. His first was Elbrus. Within two years, this courageous Kazakh climber had attempted all 14 summits in the Seven Summits and Seven Volcanoes programs! This may be a record for participants.

Yesterday, Galymzhan Kuspanov completed one of his collections with his ascent of Orizaba. We wish him the same success in the Seven Summits program in the coming year! May he maintain excellent physical fitness, a desire to expand his horizons, and the ability to do so for many years to come! Kuspanov ranked 67th on the list of Seven Volcanoes climbers, becoming the second in Kazakhstan after Yuri Lukyanov and the first ethnic Kazakh. Galymzhan turned 60 this year. He's a good role model for young people and also a record-breaker.

On October 13, 2025, at 6:00 a.m. local time, Evgeny Staroselsky reached the summit of Carstensz Pyramid as part of an international team. For him, this was the final summit of the Seven Summits program. Evgeny became the first Cypriot citizen to climb the highest peaks on all continents. In 2019, he climbed Everest as part of our 7 Summits Club team.

August 23. We did it! The group "Starпёрс&kids" climbed to the top of the highest peak in Europe!

The youngest climber is 13 years old. The oldest is 64. It was not easy for everyone, but everyone coped. I would especially like to note the initiator of this entire event - Sergey Stepanov. He not only gathered a team of like-minded people, but also took four children to the top. And by the way, he plans to do the project "Seven Volcanoes" with children. And he invites the same crazy parents with their children to participate in the project, which he dubbed "Superkids". The next mountain in their plans is Orizaba in November (Mexico). Then - Giluwe in May.

Special admiration for the couple Alexey and Elena, at 64 years old, being in the mountains for the first time, they climbed to the top!

This evening we held a ceremonial awards ceremony, and then went to the party of the 7 Summits Club and AI "Closing of the Elbrus Season"

Group guide Lyudmila Korobeshko.

August 21. Greetings to everyone from Elbrus from the "Starпёрс&kids" group! Today, everyone came to exercise. We stood in a downward facing dog position, warmed up, and finished everything with a plank. Alexey and Elena, who are 60+, it turns out, do a plank every day for 5 minutes. The rest decided to try it too.

It thundered and rained all night, and in the morning a beautiful rainbow appeared. We left for Azau in the rain. We came to the refuge in almost a snowstorm. But it quickly died down. And we walked to Pastukhov Rocks with good visibility, but the wind was blowing quite strong. In 3.5 hours we climbed to the Rocks. The kids ran first. The adults had to strain themselves a little. Then we all quickly ran down to the refuge and then to our hotel on Cheget, where we will sleep the last night before the decisive assault.

Tomorrow we will be accepted to the refuge and that same night - the summit assault.

Group guide Lyudmila Korobeshko.

August 20. Greetings to everyone from Elbrus from the group "Starпёрс&kids"! Today we started the day with exercise. We had breakfast and climbed to the Refuge National Park, meeting the bright team of Supergirls with Alex Abramov on the way. Then we went out a little higher than the Refuge of Eleven and held snow and ice classes there. Here we also met the first representative of Belarus on Everest, Alla Kasabutskaya. By lunchtime we went down to the Cheget glade. We found a magical coffee place here. We are getting ready for tomorrow's rotation to the Pastukhov Rocks. We are watching films about the work done during the day, which are edited for us every evening by member Elena.

Group guide Lyudmila Korobeshko.

August 19. Greetings to everyone from the Elbrus region from the new group "Starпёрс&kids"! Yesterday, our group arrived under the majestic Elbrus. And today we have already run to the cafe "Ai" and Lake Donguzorun, got equipment for rent and outlined plans for tomorrow. By the way, the morning of our group began with a traditional Far Eastern breakfast with red caviar and white fish, which our participant from Khabarovsk Nikolay brought.

Our group is notable for the fact that almost half of the members are teenagers aged 14-17, who run like meteors, leaving behind the honored experienced old guys. But we'll see how everything goes.

Tomorrow we'll climb to Refuge of 11, where we'll conduct snow and ice training.

Group guide Lyudmila Korobeshko.

August 14. Greetings to everyone from Elbrus region from the participants of the Hungry Elbrus project!

Today was the culmination day, the fifth day without food and the assault on the summit. To be honest, many participants doubted that everyone would be able to climb. By the end, even Abramov himself began to doubt his success. After all, the topic of hungry climbs has been little tested and studied. And it is even more surprising that absolutely ALL project participants (and even the operators) climbed to the summit! Despite the fact that half of them had no experience of fasting and half had no mountain experience.

Not everyone had an easy climb. Someone was able to reach the limit, only on willpower.

So, the Hungry Elbrus project has been successfully completed! Now we are thinking about where else to go hungry!

P.S. - one of the project participants - Dmitry Demchuk - climbed both peaks (Western and Eastern).

August 12. Greetings to everyone from the Elbrus region from the participants of the project "Hungry Elbrus"! The third (the hardest) day without food. And we decided to complicate it even more by climbing to the Pastukhov Rocks. Surprisingly, we reached the rocks quite quickly and simultaneously. And also simultaneously ran down. For better recovery before the assault, we decided to go down for one night. Here near the hotel, an evening of revelations was held by the fire. It turned out that almost everyone discovered a new source of strength and energy thanks to hunger. And Dr. Myasnikov even supported our conclusions with scientific data. But without spoilers - the details will be in the film!!!

And tomorrow morning, exercise, weighing and climbing up. At night - for the assault.

Super guides of the project "Hungry Elbrus" Alex Abramov, Denis Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

And also Dr. Myasnikov, cameraman Ilya Gladkikh and the Zavety film crew.

August 11. Greetings to everyone from Elbrus region from the participants of the "Hungry Elbrus" project!

And today we already had the second day without food. We climbed to the National Park refuge at 3900, settled in, "had lunch" (that is, drank tea) and went to the former Refuge of 11, where we conducted snow and ice training at an altitude of 4100 m. For several participants, this was a new altitude (they had not climbed to 4000 before). Everyone successfully learned how to hack themselves and their comrades with ice axes and cheerfully ran down to evening tea. And Dmitry Demchuk flew off on a snowboard (which he plans to drag to Summit).

In the evening, Dr. Myasnikov measured everyone's pulse and saturation. He found the health of the entire group to be quite satisfactory.

Tomorrow we are going to the Pastukhov Rocks. They say that the third day of fasting is the hardest. We will see...

Super guides of the "Hungry Elbrus" project Alex Abramov, Denis Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko.

And also Dr. Myasnikov, cameraman Ilya Gladkikh and the "Zavety" film crew.

August 10. Greetings to everyone from the Elbrus region from the participants of the "Hungry Elbrus" project! Today was our first day without food. We started it actively - with exercise and weighing. Then we went to Cheget. With beautiful views and bright sunshine we reached the cafe "Ai". Then it started to rain. But we decided not to retreat and went further - to Lake Donguzorun. Already under thunder and lightning we went down to the Cheget glade, having spent almost 6 hours on the way. Then we arranged an equipment check. And in the evening we went to the sauna. They say that the sauna is very useful during fasting...

Guides of the "Hungry Elbrus" project Alex Abramov, Denis Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

And also Dr. Myasnikov, cameraman Ilya Gladkikh and the film crew "Zavety".

August 9. Hello to everyone from Elbrus! The unique "Hungry Elbrus" project started here today. 15 fearless participants gathered to test their strength and try to climb to the highest point in Europe without food. All this is filmed by a whole team of professional operators. Doctor Myasnikov is responsible for the medical aspects. And the ideological inspirer and guide of all this "outrage" is, of course, the legendary Alexander Abramov.

Immediately after arriving at the hotel, all the participants were interviewed. Then they had a ceremonial "farewell to food" - a fabulous dinner with baked lamb.

After dinner, everyone went to the fire, where they spent the evening getting to know each other and asking why each of the participants decided to undertake such an unusual experiment. It turned out that real heroes gathered here, ready to challenge themselves and test their strength.

Everyone solemnly swore that at midnight they would stop eating for seven whole days (more precisely, until the very top of Elbrus).

The die was cast. From tomorrow, everyone only drinks water (tea and honey are allowed in extreme cases).

Super guides of the "Hungry Elbrus" project Alex Abramov, Denis Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

And also doctor Alexander Myasnikov, cameraman Ilya Gladkikh and the "Zavety" film crew.

The leader of the Denali expedition, group guide Lyudmila Korobeshko sends from Alaska:

 July 2. Greetings to everyone from Alaska from the "Orange Men" group from the Ranger camp at an altitude of 4300m! That's all. Yesterday we made the final decision - today we are descending. Unfortunately, without the summit. The route above 5200 is very dangerous for avalanches. For about two weeks, no one has climbed to the summit. And there is no chance that the route will improve. According to the forecast, strong winds will arrive by evening. So we will try to descend as soon as possible. We are one of the last ones on the Mountain now. There are only 1-2 groups nearby. They are also planning to descend.

It is very sad to leave without the summit...

Two guys in our team planned to close the "7 Summits" project with this Mountain. The rest had one more mountain to climb besides Denali before the project was completed...

The leader of the Denali expedition, the guide Lyudmila Korobeshko sends from Alaska:

 June 30. Greetings from Alaska to everyone from the "Orange Men" group! From the Ranger Camp at an altitude of 4300m. We have been here for two days already. We came here the day before yesterday. Yesterday we went to get supplies. Today we are resting and practicing technical skills.

 The situation on the Mountain is difficult - no one has climbed to the summit for almost two weeks. After the last snowfall, the slopes above 5300 on the "autobahn" have become very avalanche-prone. Over the past three days, about ten groups have turned around and gone down without the summit. We are still waiting and hoping. But even today our first group turned around on this section. Today Abramov's group will descend to us. We will decide what to do next.

The leader of the expedition to Denali, the guide Lyudmila Korobeshko reports from Alaska:

 June 28. Greetings to everyone from Alaska from the "Orange Men" group! Today we finally broke free from the snow captivity and moved to the Ranger Camp at an altitude of 4300m. The climb was not easy for us - very heavy backpacks and deep snow. But the main thing is that we reached it!!! We set up camp here. We are resting. Tomorrow we will go for supplies.

The leader of the Denali expedition, super-guide Lyudmila Korobeshko reports from Alaska:

June 26. Greetings from Alaska from the "Orange Men" group! From Camp Eleven at 3400m.

Yes, we are still here. Yesterday it started snowing at lunchtime, by evening it had accumulated about 20 cm. At night the snowfall intensified. We had to leave our tents every two hours and dig ourselves out. The neighboring expedition slept all night, and in the morning their tent poles broke under the weight of the snow. Now it is almost evening. The snowfall does not stop. We dig ourselves out every hour. We are sitting in camp, waiting for the weather to improve.

The leader of the expedition to Denali, the guide Lyudmila Korobeshko sends from Alaska:

 June 25. Greetings to everyone from Alaska from the "Orange Men" group. From the Camp Eleven at 3400 m.

 Yesterday we picked up our supplies from below. And today we made a new supply under the Ranger Camp. We switched to a new way of moving - without sleds and snowshoes. Now we walk in crampons and carry all the loads in backpacks. And we also walk with ice axes - we have become real mountaineers! If the weather permits, then tomorrow we will move to the Ranger Camp at 4400.

June 23. Greetings from Alaska to everyone from the "Orange Men" group! Today we climbed to Camp 3 or Camp Eleven, at an altitude of 3400. We woke up to the sounds of snowfall. We hoped that it would stop, but on the contrary, it only got stronger. As a result, we walked under snowfall for all 6 hours. At Eleven, we met our Group #1 with Alex Abramov. They are cheerful and happy. Today, the guys did not go up because of the snowfall. They decided to rest. They helped us a lot with setting up camp in difficult winter conditions.

Tomorrow, the first group will go up to the Rangers Camp. And we have a descent for supplies and a day of rest at Eleven Camp.

Denali expedition leader Lyudmila Korobeshko.

The 7 Summits Club guide Lyudmila Korobeshko reports from Alaska:

June 22. Alaska Group #2 is in touch. We are still spending the night at Camp 1 at 2500m. Yesterday we went out to make a drop-off. But we had to turn around, because it suddenly turned out that one of the participants urgently needed to return home for personal reasons. But you can't walk alone or even in pairs on the Kahiltna glacier (according to the rules of the local rangers), so we all turned around - we are the team! We returned to the camp and tried to have as much fun as possible. At night, Sergey went down with another team, and we reached the drop-off point early this morning. And we made it to 3000. We were a bit battered by the wind and cold, but now we are already in the camp. Let's sunbathe and relax.

June 20. Alaska. 7 Summits Club group on Denali #2 is in touch. Yesterday we arrived in Talkeetna. On the way we were thinking up a name for the group. There are several options. We are still deciding. At 13:00 we were briefed by rangers and then flew to the Kahiltna Glacier. After landing, we slept a little and at 4:00 a.m. we moved on to Camp 1. By 10 a.m. we arrived at Camp 1 at an altitude of 2500. Along the way, we lost toilet tanks a couple of times. We set up camp, rested and sunbathed (very active sun). The views are beautiful, avalanches constantly come down from neighboring slopes - everything we like.

Head of the Denali expedition Lyudmila Korobeshko.