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Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club from Tanzania:

Today our group climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. 25 people were at the highest point. The weather was perfect. Now we're going down to camp Millennium at 3600. And tomorrow we will celebrate at the hotel!

Super-Guides of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov and Dmitry Ermakov: 

Our group "SKOLKOVO – 5642" climbed to the top of Elbrus in very difficult weather. Everyone except us refused to try to go in this weather! So we found all our answers to the questions of life. We overcame ourselves and were able to reach the summit!!! Hurrah-Ah-Ah!! Everyone is alive, healthy and happy!!!

Hello! This is guide Boris Egorov from Kenya. Today we reached our assault camp. At height of 4200. Crossing 15 kilometers. In general, all have reached enough vigorously. But the height is already felt.

Meanwhile, a new group of climbers arrived in the area of Elbrus. According to the plan of our acclimatization, we made a rotation to the slope of mount Cheget, to a height of 2700 meters. The group chose the name "Snowcat = beltebil"- which translated from Norwegian means - "Snow cats". On the weather. Elbrus was shrouded in dense fog with light rain. Therefore, photos with the views we did not. We hope that we will make up for the photo report at the southern slope of Elbrus, where we move tomorrow. And where we will continue to prepare for the ascent to the top of Elbrus. A guide, Andrey Berezin.

Hi, the 7 Summits Club! The team "Zaalaysky literary and musical club named after Lenin" returned for the rest to the First camp (4200). We spent two nights at an altitude of 5200, with acclimatization rotation at 6100. Two members, unfortunately, decided to leave us, for health reasons. The rest of the team is in combat readiness, with well acclimatization. We have to wait for the best fine day to try to climb the summit.

Greetings from the group "Desperate Housewives"! Today we climbed Eastern peak of Elbrus.  The weather smiled at us the whole way, only on top there was  a slightly increased wind. Panoramic views are simply incomparable! Although what to tell - see photo report.  We are already at the shelter, everything is OK!

Guide Alexander Dorojukov.

The group "Men Only" during today's ascent has a test of strength of character on the severe weather conditions: there was snow and wind and frost, and fog. But nothing could move us on the way to the goal. Summary: all members of our team in this morning, stood on the Western peak of Elbrus.   A couple of hours later, Eugene Volsky photographed the beauty from  the Eastern peaks of Elbrus.  Congratulations! Keep it up!  Guide Andrey Berezin.

Sergey Larin from Tanzania: Hello! Alexander Abramov, Anastasia Kuznetsova and guide Sergey Larin arrived in Kilimanjaro to meet the team of the publishing group EKSMO-AST. As part of the ongoing partnership, the leaders of the largest Russian publishing holding consisting of 27 people plan to climb to the highest point of Africa - Kilimanjaro 5895m. In 2018, they have climbed on Elbrus the same big team.

This is guides of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov and Dmitry Ermakov from the slopes of Elbrus! We have  with a team of "SKOLKOVO-5642"  climbed up to high camp and spent the snow-ice training sessions. Moving to the height turned out to be successful, the whole group feels good. Everyone is ready for tomorrow's ascent to the Pastukhov rocks. During training with ice axes we didn't lose any member of team!! Now we are resting and waiting for a delicious dinner from our chef Zulia! Good luck!!

Group of the 7 Summits Club "Face the face" got "window" among the Elbrus bad weather and fulfilled his task, climbed Elbrus.  They reached the top in 8:15, the time back and forth was 12:21. And then, all together celebrated the success.

Guide Andrey Berezin: the group named "Only men" today climbed to the shelter "National Park ".  At 4000 meters we got into winter, yesterday it was snowing all day. Therefore, the slopes of Elbrus covered with fresh snow.  We conducted snow-ice classes, worked self-arrest with an ice ax and movement on fixed ropes. 

There are video fragments of the ascent on Denali of the team of the 7 Summits Club. June-July 2019. The author, who is also the expedition leader, Alexander Abramov. It was the successful completion of his project "Seven summits in seven months" with over-fulfillment of the plan. It turned out – for 6 months.

Aloha, friends! Today the group "Zaalay literary music club named after Lenin" made the first acclimatization rotation to a height of 4200. The day gave us great weather and stunning views of the surrounding magical landscape! Our eyes absorbed the beauty, causing the heart to beat faster. After acclimatization walk, the team of guides took up a new sport for them - SUP surfing on the Alpine lake.

On 7 July, the team of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Alexander Abramov, 13 persons, climbed to the top of Mount Denali.  Among the climbers there was Vasily Shakhnovsky, who by this ascent "closed" the program "Seven summits". A great achievement for a great person!  Congratulations!

Greeting  from the group, climbing  Lenin Peak! Day one: we arrived in the city of Osh, which met us with a warm embrace. We checked our equipment and went for a walk to the Suleiman Mountain. After a walk we went to the restaurant "Raisins" - our cult place. There we celebrated the beginning of our expedition and two birthdays of Sergey Motorkin and Vladimir Kotlyar. The group has already proved to be a close-knit, friendly and cheerful team, and everything is just beginning ...

Three groups of the 7 Summits Club were successfully acclimatized and after a rest ready for the summit attempt of Elbrus. But nature has made its changes to our plans, in the form of a cyclone from the Atlantic. For a few days on Elbrus settled bad weather: hurricane wind, snow and thunderstorms - the source of our today's retreat. The result: the height of 5200 meters, the maximum where we were able to climb. But our members are not discouraged, they met with the real character of Elbrus. They promise to come back.

Project "Seven summits in seven months". President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov climbs on Elbrus, the sixth summit of the project. June 2019.

The team of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of its President Alexander Abramov in full, 13 people, climbed to the top of Denali on Sunday, July 7th at 8 PM. As a result, three people completed the "Seven summits": Vladimir Kotlyar, Irina Zisman and Vasily Shakhnovsky.  Alexander Abramov did it for the third time. This time – in record time – all "seven summits" for 6 months and 1 day.

Three groups of the 7 Summits Club are now on the acclimatization rotation on the slopes of Elbrus.  Today they climbed to the Pastukhov Rocks, to a height of about 5 thousand meters under the guidance of their guides Andrey Berezin, Alexander Dorozhukov and Dmitry Ermakov. Everything is going according to plan. Tomorrow is a rest day, then - a peak assault.

Hello!  Here is Abramov Alexander from Alaska, from Denali slopes.  Today our team, all 13 people, reached the top of Mount McKinley-Denali. It was on Sunday, 7^th  July at 8 PM. As a result, three people have fulfilled the standard of "Seven summits". This is Vladimir Kotlyar, this  is Irina Zisman, this  is Vasily Shakhnovsky. And Alexander Abramov for the third time climbed all the "seven peaks". And he did it  this time in exactly  in 6 months.  Thereby setting a new record, of Russia or CIS felts or all over Europe… It dies not matter…

We feel ourselves very good, we have already gone down to the camp 17000. And tomorrow we start the descent down. Everyone's happy. All right,  bye!