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The 7 Summits Club guide Sergey Larin sent photos from the ascent to Aconcagua. On the top there were: Alexander Tertychnyi, Dmitry Tertychnyi (14 years) and guide Sergey Larin

Hello! This is Alex Abramov. I run my report from the summit of the Massif Vinson. We are the first and only team, which today climbed to the highest point. The weather is beautiful, and it is almost no wind! I did not even put a down jacket ... there are lovely views around, however, some clouds, but no wind .. We took a chance, went out in bad weather, and guessed. At the top are staying now: Alexey, Dmitry, Vasily, and our American friends ANI guides Scott, Næss and Andy. And, of course, your humble servant, Alexander Abramov.

Now we begin the descent, we hope to be at Union Glacier at 29th. All Goodbye!

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov from Antarctica, from the High camp on the of Vinson Massi. Despite the fact that we were promised today for not very good weather, strong wind, we were the only team that dared to go up. And now we came to the assault camp, surprise - is absolute calm! We hope that tomorrow morning we will be able to climb to the top. But still, of course, all is in the hands of God. So now we go to sleep and just in 7 hours we hope to start for ... the assault. Bye! Wait for new information!

Hi Seven Summits Club! Today, all members of our small expedition of three men climbed Mount Aconcagua. Remarkably, in the expedition there was a 14-year-old boy from Russia - it is the record for age. But climbing was given to us is not easy. The climb took 12 hours. But it ended okay, now we are in Berlin, in the camp, resting. And we went down just on 2 and a half hours ... all are alive and well, more details - on this later. So long! Sergei Larin.

Members: Alexander Tertychny father, Dmitry Tertychnyi son - 14 years, guide Sergey Larin.

Alexander Abramov: Hello! I want to inform you that we are in Antarctica. What we got today, flew to the base camp Vinson Massif ... Almost immediately, immediately we went to the camp ... 1.

All turned out as always spontaneously. We just took a bus in Mendoza and went to Copiapo. Just to kill time, since before the plane there was five days. In Copiapo, we hired a pickup and decided to try to go to Ojos. Ojos del Salado - is the highest volcano in South America and the world.

So we got into the car and drove to the Atacama Desert. I do not drive a car, and Xenia has no experience of driving an SUV, but we are not scared. In the evening, courageously overcome all difficulties off-road, we were in the high-altitude camp "Atacama" at an altitude of 5200. It is 5 am when we began to climb to the top. The weather was clear but very windy. In Elbrus in such wind, I would not be led, to be honest. I do not know when exactly – at 2 p.m., perhaps, we were "standing" on the top.

Then there was a rapid descent. After resting for five minutes on foot, Xu sat behind the wheel of our car, and we rushed to the Laguna Verde, warm up in the hot springs. The next day we traveled through the neighborhood, stopping at various places of interest. We visited the lakes, waterfalls, gorges, salt marshes, seeing the wild flamingos. I was struck by the beauty and abundance of colors of the desert. This is my first meeting with this desert, but I hope not the last.

Now we're sitting at the airport waiting for the plane of Oxana. Today she flies home, and I stay in Chile. No exact plan as usual there, just go to the south. What will come of this? Wait and see...

The morning we caught when we were still on the side of the mount of Belukha. So carefully, step by step we have four hours reached the crest of the mountain. The top was at hand, we need only one last spurt. The guys who went before, managed to fix the ropes, so it was already easier. Securing on the railing of a Jumar, we began to rise in turn, had one last leap to the top. Finally, after five hours of hard work on the side, we went to the top. That’s All! Another victory over myself, we have the height!

The top met us prickly, cold, biting wind, but it did not matter, we have not noticed, we were happy, congratulating each other and from the summit welcomed the rest of the group that came to the top. Chronicled his ascent to the camera, the moment came when I had to say goodbye to the summit

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Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Antarctica. In Antarctica bad weather continued, the snow falls, hardly see the surrounding mountains. This continues for the third day, and that the worst thing is that in the Vinson Massif ... it is also all covered with clouds, and also snowing. Therefore flights now not take place and we are in Union Glacier Base Camp. We eat well here, in principle, we have comfortable conditions. But ... it is high time to fly. It seems that the bad weather will last a few more days. Maybe we will be able to escape.

Bye! Thank you! And a Merry Christmas!

Sergei Larin, a guide of the 7 Summits Club: Welcome Seven Summits! Shower in Plaza de Mulas costs $ 10. 15 minutes of bad working of the Internet and two cans of beer are also $ 10. But after three days of acclimatization in Nido de Condores at 5500, all that we have to use. As you understood, we went down from an acclimatization outing to rest. All is going along the plan.

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov from Antarctica. All our day was held in preparation for the flight to an Mount Vinson. But this did not happen, the weather turned bad. Now we are still sitting on the base of Union Glacier ... The weather will give us finally a chance to sleep. We almost do not sleep three days, always moving somewhere. Today we went 15 kilometers from the base of the Union Glacier. There we ran the drone and did some shooting. We also played miniature golf. Maybe this was the first blow with a stick in Antarctica. Although I doubt it.

Well, in general, the team has a cheerful mood. And if tomorrow we will not be able to fly to Vinson Massif, the day after tomorrow there is a plan to fly to the South Pole. It will take approximately one day. The weather at the base camp is not bad. But the weather in the mountains and around - bad. There is poor visibility ... around. As a result, our plans are not clear.

Hello, Seven Summits! Get information on Aconcagua. We are OK, we are working on a plan, getting acclimatization for the standard version. Yesterday we spent the night at the Plaza Canada, today we climbed to Nido de Condores. All members are in good conditions. What is proved by two facts. First, we were ahead of the porters. And second, now while the water is boiled, members read the literature. That is, everything is fine, everything is going according to the plan. So long! Sergei Larin.

Alex: Only we (Lena Abramova) said farewell to Jamil Manizade for the flight to the South Pole, and visited Fort Bulnes, as members of our first group arrived in Punto Arenas. They are Vasily, Alexey and Dmitry.

We are at a monument to Magellan surrounded by beautiful ladies - Christine and Helen.

This morning there was a check the equipment together with a guide Scott Wolums.
The audit showed the full readiness of the team.
So everyone with peace of mind went to visit the penguins on Magdalena Island.
I went to buy the products that tomorrow we will ship for loading. For a while! ..

Hello everybody! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, Climb Aconcagua program. Today I and Oksana went to the top of the highest point in South America. It was cold, but windless. We caught the weather window, it is cool. We climbed up for 5 hours - rather quickly. We are now in the Plaza de Mulas, you could not believe it ... we sit, eat pizza, drink beer. And now, here we met Sergei Larin, in general, we celebrate our climb. Adios! Until we meet again in January. All the best!

It so happened that three groups of the 7 Summits Club, one after another, come to Kilimanjaro. At the forefront there is the group consisting of: Vasily Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Bryuhno and

Alexander Konstantinovsky. They're climbing Kilimanjaro by Marangu route, today they should be in the Horombo hut. Then father and son Romas and Lucas Rakcheev began his march to the Kilimanjaro, they go by the Lemosho route.

Today, on December 14, two new members are scheduled to fly in Tanzania, they are planning to climb Kilimanjaro by the Machame route.

Alexander Grebenyuk: The session of school is completed by climbing on one of the peaks of the Caucasian Mineral Waters - Mountain laccolith Medovaya (Honey). Students of the school have shown their knowledge when making climbing on rocky route. All this was at a background of normal mountain weather with a breeze and little precipitation. In the analysis of climbing all people adequately responded to the issues. All the best, until next time!

Hello! It is Vladimir Kotlyar from Aconcagua. Our climbing partners have decided to fly home for personal reasons. They flew in a helicopter. And we've got two. Here, unfortunately. But we did not finish the expedition ... Now we sit down in Plaza de Mulas, at an altitude of 4300 and expected weather. We've got sweeps, the blizzard. The wind is very strong at the top. On top along the weather forecast the wind is now 70-75 ... We will be waiting for the weather and go upstairs. Adios! All the best!

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, the guide of the 7 Summits Club on the expedition to Aconcagua. Today our friendly team climbed up for the first high-altitude camp at an altitude, it is Plaza Canada at 4800 meters. Our goal is to spend the night for better acclimatization and gradual, step-up recovery. We went fast - 3 hours, set up tents, have dinner. And now we have a rest, to boil water, drown snow. In general, we collect water for the evening and for the morning.

Today we have snow, blizzard, snowstorm. But never mind, all is well: we got a real northern adventure. Adios!

Today, January 9, one more our guide - Sergey Larin flew to Argentina. Tomorrow he will, we hope, arrive in Mendoza, and will begin preparations for a meeting with members of our new expedition. This expedition will start the next day. Note that the youngest member of the group is only 14 years old. It is Dmitry Tertychnyi - to his credit there is Pyramid Carstenzs summit. He became the youngest climber in the world at this summit, which passed the entire route through the jungle… Now he plan to become the youngest Russian on the summit of Aconcagua.

Good evening! It says Vladimir Kotlyar from Argentina. We are all also in the Plaza Confluence. Today we have acclimatization at valley under the South Face of Aconcagua. A stunningly beautiful mount. There is a lot of snow this season, as I said earlier. First time at this altitude I had to stomp through the snow in some places. With the weather we were lucky. Now we are back, passed a medical control, all passed it successfully. In general, we eat, rest, preparing for tomorrow. Tomorrow we have a long, long transport, walk to the Plaza de Mulas.

Good evening! It says Alexander Grebenyuk, guide of the Mountain School of the 7 Summits Club on the Caucasian Mineral Waters. Today, December 6, it was the third and final day of our School. The program was fully implemented. During the sessions, students have consolidated the skills of movement on the mountain terrain, examined the use in practice, devices and accessories for ascending and descending the rocks of varying difficulty and steepness. We climbed to the top of Mount Mashuk, Ostrogorka and the highest point of the region - Mount Beshtau, having traversed using climbing equipment route across the top of the Goat rocks. All participants are healthy and departed to the place of permanent residence by evening flights from Mineralnye Vody Airport.

Until we meet again in the Caucasian Mineral Waters! All the best!

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