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

Greetings from Tanzania from the slopes of Kilimanjaro! Today our team made a small walk to the assault camp - Kosovo. On the way, we were covered with fog, then snow began, then the sun shone. But despite this, we still got there. Tonight we are going to climb to the top of Africa.

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

Hello everyone from Tanzania! Today our group woke up in the Baranko camp with a view of the wall of the same name and the summit of Kilimanjaro beautifully decorated with snow and ice. After breakfast we started climbing the wall. This is a very impressive event. We have to climb the rocks, there are caravans of porters with huge bales on their heads. Traffic jams are forming, everyone is trying to get through as soon as possible. From pleasant - very beautiful views. It took us two hours to overcome the wall. After a small tea party, we continued our way to the camp among beautiful fogs and rocks. By lunchtime we arrived at the Karanga camp. We wanted to take a walk after lunch, but the rain again disrupted all our plans. So that we decided to rest and acclimatize not very actively.

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

News from Tanzania from the Sharomizhniki group. We had a very long day today. We climbed to a height of 4600 meters to the Lava Tower. Gradually, the vegetation ended, and we found ourselves in a stone desert among clouds. After lunch and a little acclimatization, we continued on our way to the place of our overnight stay in Barranco camp. We dropped almost everything we gained during the day. But we found ourselves in a wonderful forest of giant senecias.

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

News from Tanzania. Today we moved to the second camp called Shira Camp, which is located at an altitude of 3800 meters. In the morning we were introduced to the team that works with our group. There are 27 people in total. After that, we hit the road.

It was a beautiful crossing among the bushes, picturesquely decorated with moss. The sun shone the first half of the day, but closer to lunch, clouds covered everything, and it rained. Fortunately, we just managed to reach the camp. The rain started in earnest, and we had to cancel the acclimatization rotation. In the rain, the best acclimatization is to sit in a tent. But after a while the rain stopped, and we decided to take a walk to the observation point. We climbed a hundred meters in height. Three builders have built an elegant, but it seems not very strong structure. This is the end of our acclimatization for today.

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

Greetings from Tanzania! Today our group, which the participants decided to call an incomprehensible for foreign word Sharomyzhniki, finally gathered in Tanzania. And immediately the team left for the beginning of the Machame route to Kilimanjaro. Since we were not gathering fast, we started climbing to our first camp quite late. Therefore, only the first part of the way we admired the beauty of the forest, and at the end of the day we walked in the dark and listened to the sounds of the night jungle.

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

Hello everyone from Tanzania! Today, a new group of the 7 Summits Club arrived at Kilimanjaro Airport to begin climbing the mountain of the same name.  However, due to circumstances, so far only half of the participants were able to get to the beginning of the route. We hope that tomorrow we will all get together and start climbing Kilimanjaro.  The new group was met at the airport by the participants of the previous group, who, after climbing, arranged a well-deserved rest in Zanzibar. That's how the continuity of the groups turned out.

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

So Lucky Chyk-chyryk African adventures are over. Today the whole group flew away: someone at home, someone in Zanzibar. This week we became very friends, and it was a shame to break up. But we hope to meet again. In the mountains. Or not in the mountains.

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

Today our Lucky Chyk-chyryk group in full force ran up, ascended, crawled to the top of Kilimanjaro. The weather decided to test us. And it was un-African cold. Everyone was frozen, despite the good clothes and warm down jackets. That's how Africa is. And yet we endured everything and reached the summit. For which they were rewarded with incredible views and beautiful glaciers.

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

Hello to all from the Lucky Chyk-Chyryk group! Today we moved up to the Kosovo assault camp at an altitude of 4900 meters. Now it remains only to rest for a few hours before the assault and go out at midnight to climb Mont Kilimanjaro. Everyone's mood is moderately combative. We hope that everything will work out.

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

The group "Lucky Chyk-Chyryk" sends greetings from the Karanga camp from a height of 4020 meters above sea level! Every day we are getting closer to the summit. In fact, we have one step left before the assault camp. And everyone is already a little worried. But, in the same way, everyone was worried yesterday, looking at the incredible Baranko Wall, which we had to climb today. However, everything turned out to be not so terrible. And slowly-slowly, or as they say "pole-pole" here, we all crawled to the top of the wall, and then walked a long way to the Karanga camp.

The weather today decided not to test us. It started to rain exactly fifteen minutes after we arrived at the camp. Due to the rain, the acclimatization rotation had to be canceled. We decided that we had acclimatized well enough.

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

The Lucky Chyk-chyryk band sends greetings from the Baranko camp from the slopes of Kilimanjaro! Today was a difficult, but very beautiful and eventful day. The morning greeted us with the sun, a beautiful sunrise and a view of the summit of Kilimanjaro.

On this day, we had to climb the Lava Tower, gaining 800 meters of altitude, and then descend to the Baranko camp, dropping almost everything we had gained. Today the weather decided to test our strength. On the way to the Lava Tower, we got into the snow with the wind, and on the descent - in the rain. But you can't scare us like that.

Together with our guides, we sang songs and shouted chants: "One team - one dream!" and so on, ending with the invariable "chyk-chyryk! Hakuna matata!" So if you hear this from the guides on Kilimanjaro now, don't be surprised.

Thanks to the extraordinary team spirit, friendly support and inexhaustible optimism, our super team overcame all difficulties and came to the Baranko camp.  Everyone feels normal, and I would like to hope that it will be even better by morning, because this will be our second night at an altitude of 3900.

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

News from Tanzania from the Lucky Chyk-Chyryk group. Today was the second day of our climbing Kilimanjaro. And this day continued to delight us with beautiful views and excellent weather.

In the morning we got acquainted with the whole team that works with our group. In total, 47 people are with us - guides, cooks, waiters, camp attendants, porters. Therefore, we are surrounded by their care and attention from morning to evening.

Today we came out of the rainforest zone and climbed through an area called Moorland. In fact, it's not a wasteland at all. On the way we saw many beautiful and very unusual plants. By lunchtime we climbed to a height of 3900 meters and came to the second camp - Shira, which is located in an incredibly beautiful place. Everyone feels good. Even better than yesterday.

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

Greetings to all from Tanzania from the Lucky Chyk-Chyryk team!  This morning we packed up, left something, took something with us, and left our hotel to start climbing Kilimanjaro, the summit of which could be observed in the morning right at the hotel.

On the way to the gates of the national park, we sang songs and came up with the name of the band. As a result, after a bad debate and voting, friendship won, so the team got a double name.

The Belarusian branch of our group asks to send greetings to Slava Komisarenko, whose "Chyk-Chyryk" became half of the name of the group.

Then we started climbing to the first camp. We walked more than 10 kilometers, gained 1200 meters of altitude. It was not easy, but the views of the fabulous forest greatly brightened the way and softened the hardships.

It took us a little over five hours to reach the Machame camp. Everyone feels different. But everyone is cheerful and cheerful.

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

Hello everyone from Tanzania! Today our big, cheerful, but not yet named group has gathered in full. After a short rest from a long journey (some took more than a day to get to Tanzania), we held a short briefing and checked the equipment. Everyone's equipment turned out to be in order. Briefing too. We all met at the welcome dinner. Everyone told about themselves. It turned out that the group gathered very different, but very enthusiastic and interesting people. Tomorrow morning we start climbing Kilimanjaro on the most, in my opinion, picturesque route - Marangu.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Morocco: Hello everyone! That's the end of our adventures in Marroko. On the last day we moved from the hot red Marrakech to the ocean, to the blue-white city of Essaouira.

But before we got to this city, on the way, first of all, we finally saw the legendary Moroccan goats that graze, climbing argan trees and eating their fruits and leaves.

A tree strewn with goats like apples is a very unusual sight. Secondly, we stopped at a beautiful winery - a small piece of France with an African flavor, where we looked at the process of wine production, and then tried their best samples.

 And finally, we arrived in Essaouira. Essaouira is the ocean, it's sand, it's white and blue houses and blue fishermen's boats, a big fish market and an old fortress. Here you can wander around the old town for hours or sit on the beach looking at the ocean. You can also swim (which we immediately did), but not for long, because the water is very cool.

 The most active of us went to learn kite surfing. We just walked around the city until the evening. This is the end of our trip, which gave so many bright and diverse impressions.

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

Hello everyone from Morocco! Yesterday we had a very busy, even oversaturated excursion day. Early in the morning, before leaving the hospitable Ouarzazate, we visited the most famous Kasbah Al Ben Hada, where various famous films were shot.

We wandered among the ancient walls, looked at where the Gladiator movie was filmed, looked at how they make drawings from tea and saffron.  After that we drove towards Marrakech. On the way, we saw how the legendary argon oil is produced.

As soon as we arrived in Marrakech, we immediately went on a walking tour of the city. We visited the most iconic sights: Bahia Palace, Madrasah, Majorelle Garden. We walked through the ancient streets. And only late in the evening, fed up with impressions, finally rested at the hotel. It turned out to be a wonderful eventful day, which opened up to us Marrakech from a new side.

Olga Rumyantseva, guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Morocco:

Greetings from Morocco! Today our group made a successful ascent on Mount Tubkal. The weather did not please us - it was raining and snowing again. But the peak gave beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.  On the same day we went down to the refuge. Now all the participants are being washed and come to their senses. In the evening there will be a solemn awarding of the climbers. And tomorrow we will go on a trip to other parts of Morocco.

Olga Rumyantseva, guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Morocco:

Greetings to all from sunny Morocco! Today, our large group gathered in Marrakech, from where our journey through this amazing country will begin. First impressions of the city - very hot and very bright. Bright sun, bright people.

Tomorrow morning we will leave for the mountains - we will start our ascent on Tubkal.  And there we will have a little rest from the heat. In the meantime, we warm our bones, enjoy the sun, get acquainted with the amazing city and its traditions.

The night at the camp 2 was a bit hectic.

The first time I woke up at about ten o'clock in the evening from the fact that B. was hopelessly crying out in the next tent:

- Oxygen! Bring me oxygen! Will someone eventually bring me oxygen?!

And from another nearby tent, Dr. Larin answered melancholically:

- Yes, I'm coming, I'm coming. I'm already putting on my shoes.

Then all night I woke up from a terrible thirst, it's good that there were water supplies at hand as usual. And also from unpleasant sensations in the throat, which began the day before and now turned into some kind of sleep-disturbing cough.

In general, so-so night.

By the morning it turned out that B., who took off his glasses every now and then during the descent, burned his eyes and now sees nothing. A helicopter was about to arrive for him.

The rest of the members of the Khumbu Walking Club gradually woke up and crawled out of the tents.

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