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The 7 Summits Club Guide Andrey Berezin reports from Argentina:

Hola! The "Los Hombres" group set off for the foot of Aconcagua. Today we arrived from Mendoza to Puente del Inca (Inca Bridge). Our glamping camp with comfortable cabins is located here. Upon arrival, we walked to the famous Inca Bridge, after which we started repacking our things to send to the upper camps: Confluencia and Plaza de Mulas. Tomorrow we enter Aconcagua National Park and climb to Confluencia Camp.

Alexander Abramov. President of the 7 Summits Club:

Sensation! The project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" is dead! Long live the project "7 volcanoes in 70 days"!!! Having climbed Winter Elbrus, the team shortened the project. Now we are ready to climb 7 volcanoes in 70 days.

Already climbed:

- Damavand (Asia, Iran) - October 31;

- Kilimanjaro (Africa, Tanzania) - November 6;

- Orizaba (North America, Mexico) - November 13;

- Giluwe (Australia, Papua New Guinea) - November 21;

- Elbrus (Europe, Russia) - December 9.

Remaining to climb before January 7:

- Ojos del Salado (South America. Chile);

- Sidley - Antarctica.

The 7 Summits Club guide Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

Chile in touch! Today we had an acclimatization ascent to the summit of Laguna, the height of which is 4800 meters. Accompanied by the most beautiful views and a breeze, we continue to walk through the Atacama Desert. Tomorrow we move to our base camp. The weather is good, only the wind is pushing us a little.

The 7 Summits Club Guide Valery Myasoedov reports from the Aconcagua base camp:

Greetings from Argentina! The advance group of guides arrived at the Aconcagua Base Camp at Plaza de Mulas 10 minutes ago. The first thing we did was inspect our domo (dome). It looks amazing! See for yourself!

The 7 Summits Club Guide Andrey Berezin reports from Argentina:

Hola! The first group of the 7 Summits Club this season has safely reached Argentina and has taken the name "Los Hombres" (Men). The participants gathered in hot Mendoza, where our path to the summit of Aconcagua begins. We quickly resolved all organizational issues, including obtaining permits. And we also managed to try the famous Argentine steaks.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the airport:

The team of the project "7 Volcanoes in 77 Days" flies to Chile. To climb the 6th volcano - Ojos del Salado. This is the highest volcano in the world at 6864 meters. Having shortened the project deadline by climbing Elbrus in winter, we renamed it "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days".

A guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

Chile is in touch! We left for the Atacama Desert, started our program according to plan. Along the most beautiful road we stopped at Laguna Rossa, where we admired the flamingos. Then we moved to Laguna Negro Francisco. There are wilder places here and it is very beautiful.

The 7 Summits Club guide Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

 Chile on the line! Today the entire group gathered in Bahia Ingles, our aim is to climb Mount Ojos del Salado. We checked into a hotel by the ocean, walked around the area, and got to know each other. Many of our participants are planning to complete the Seven Volcanoes program this year. We're keeping our fingers crossed for them!

The 7 Summits Club Super Alexander Dorojukov sends from Chile:

Hello everyone from Chile! As was said earlier, the season is starting. First of all, this is preparing the camp, purchasing food and everything else. Today, the first participants of our cheerful team arrived. Tomorrow, everyone else will arrive and - on their way to new peaks and adventures!

The 7 Summits Club Guide Valery Myasoedov sends from Argentina:
Hello from Mendoza! Preparations for the start of the season are almost complete, food has been purchased and packed, tents and public equipment have been checked, gas, oxygen - everything is waiting to be sent to the Base Camp. There are some paperwork formalities left, which we plan to complete tomorrow. Also tomorrow we will meet the first participant of the first group, who arrives a day earlier, and then we will definitely be able to say: "The season has started!" We are in a great mood, the team is experienced, we are confident in another successful season on Aconcagua, a mountain that we know and love well. Guides Andrey Berezin and Valery Myasoedov.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

Good news from the Elbrus region. Elbrus is ours!

Today, December 9, Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko made a winter ascent of Elbrus as part of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days". But first, a sensation! The counter of the number of climbers fell from the top of Elbrus. Probably, from the new year they will install a new "zeroed" one.

This is the fifth mountain of our project. The ascent of Elbrus on October 24 was counted as a training one. Now the project 7 volcanoes - "who is faster" officially begins with the ascent of Damavand on October 31. It is realistic to do it in 70 days.

Oh! It will not be possible to run across Damavand, as our team of the 7 Summits Club starts climbing Ojos del Salado tomorrow. We need to fly to Chile urgently. This will be the sixth mountain of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days".

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

The team has climbed to the refuge. At night, the summit will be stormed. The weather is not bad. It is minus 30 at the summit.

We reached Refuge of 11 for acclimatization. We met the record holder of Elbrus for the fastest ascent, Vitaly Shkel.

The 7 Summits Club Guide Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

Buenas to all! Arrived in Chile, opening the season on Ojos del Salado. Just four flights, with three bags, fun customs upon arrival, and I'm here. On the way, in Brazil, met friends, and of course they were flying in the same direction. In general, everyone fly to Chile, chill on Ojos.

The 7 Summits Club President Alexander Abramov reports from the Moscow-Mineralnye Vody plane:

We're going to Winter Elbrus. The goal is to climb this mountain in order to shorten the project time. And on December 12 we fly to Chile to climb the 6th volcano - the highest volcano in the world Ojos del Salado. The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team had a good rest. We didn't go anywhere for 2 weeks. We sat at home. Time to go to the mountains!

Hello from sunny Mendoza! The advance guard of guides is already here and is starting to prepare for the long season on Aconcagua. Mendoza greeted us, as always, warmly. We passed passport control in 5 minutes, and customs did not even ask what we had in our huge bags. Argentina has changed a lot over the past year, the economy is stabilizing, all the locals note this, but, as a result of the reforms, prices have increased significantly. The official and street exchange rates of the dollar to the peso are almost the same, and the advantage that all foreigners had has disappeared. We have to get used to it...

First of all, we visited the office of our partners, discussed the innovations of this season, met new employees, looked around the warehouse with rental equipment and even tried on some things. By the way, our partners Aconcagua Vision are renting an office in the Diplomatic Hotel this year, which is very convenient for our participants and for us, since we rent a house right across the street. Today, we are planning to sort out the deposit and, at the same time, we are processing permits at the Migration Service. There is a lot of work, but we have everything worked out and tested over the years, there will be no problems. The season is long, until the end of February, and those who are still thinking about climbing Aconcagua have time. Sign up for groups, come, and we will organize everything here at the highest level. Guides Andrey Berezin and Valery Myasoedov.

Program and details…

Next trips: 11 and 23th December.

At the Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation, the official reception of new climbers of all seven-thousanders of "soviet part" of the Pamir and Tien Shan into the ranks of "Snow Leopards" took place. There are now more than 700 of them! The 7 Summits Club and Club 8000 join in the congratulations! The new leopards are: Alexander Semenov (Chita), Maria Sizova (Moscow), Mikhail Krivulyak (Nyagan, Yugra) and Artem Berdnikov (Samara). According to Vladimir Nikolaevich Shataev, who presented the certificates and IDs, this year 8 people met the standards for the "snow leopard", 4 Russians. 32 people climbed Communism Peak, 60 climbed Korzhenevskaya Peak, 46 climbed Khan-Tengri, and 146 Russians climbed Lenin Peak.

At the Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation on November 30, several awards were presented as part of the Steel Angel project. Women's mountaineering is on the rise! The organizers of the Steel Angel project promise to make the guide competition an annual event. We welcome this initiative! We have many guides and they are all wonderful, and all deserve awards. See you next year! Let's keep working!

On November 30, the traditional Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation was held in the building of the historic Palace of Culture of MIIT. The event, in the preparation and holding of which, again traditionally, the 7 Summits Club plays an important role. It can be said that every year the scale of the evening increases, both its main program and additional options are expanded. New types of awards appear, more and more athletes are honored. And in the halls of the Palace of Culture this time there was a lively trade, a buffet was open, there were several exhibitions. The program became longer in duration and ended late in the evening.

The 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club were responsible for presenting memorable awards to climbers of Everest and other eight-thousanders at the gala evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation. Here you can see how it happened. Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko and our wonderful girls-managers did a great job and provided the heroes of the season with a memorable festive evening. Everything is fine with our part of the mountaineering process. As one of our best guides says, "let's keep working"!

Yesterday, the ship of the Russian Antarctic expedition "Akademik Fedorov" left the port of Cape Town and headed for Antarctica. On board is the team of the unique round-the-world expedition Transglobal Car, led by Vasily Shakhnovsky. Also on the ship are Arctic Trucks cars specially prepared for traveling along the Ice Continent. And specialists for their maintenance. And in the team, in addition to Shakhnovsky, we see his constant companion and participant of the 7 Summits Club programs, Alexey Safonov. And also our very close friends Sergey Larin and Vasily Elagin.

This is what our route looks like

1 - Cape Town

2 - Molodezhnaya station

3 - Progress station

The route length is about 5600 km. The timing will depend on the weather and ice conditions in the Antarctic latitudes. We should start moving across Antarctica by December 18.

More information about the expedition:

Transglobal Car Expedition Website

Expedition route

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The 7 Summits Club guide Boris Egorov sends from Tanzania:

Hello to everyone from Africa! Yesterday, Artem Gurshteyn and I admired the views from the summit of Kilimanjaro at dawn. And that same day, we went down to the gate and arrived at the hotel. It's incredible, but we climbed the mountain in three days! And that's more than 80 km! On the last day, we walked about 40 km, gained one kilometer vertically and lost four. This time, we were finally lucky with the weather. There was a clear sky and no wind.