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Today, after several days of trekking, the 7 Summits Club group reached the base camp Machapuchare. All OK. Guide of the expedition Vladimir Kotlyar:

... Base camp, elevation 3500. Suddenly jungle replaced tundra. Nature is very beautiful, harsh, resembles our Caucasian. Now we are waiting for a hot meal .....

Tomorrow ascent to the Tent peak will continue.

On 9th April, in the cinema «35 mm» - a premiere of the film about the record of base-jumping.

In may 2013 Valery Rozov has made a record height of base jumping from 7,220 m above sea level. After 60 years since the first ascent to the highest peak of the world, a video with a man flying in a wingsuit over an array of Mount Everest, has opened a new Chapter in the history of conquer the summit.

By the documentary Flying High The Quest for Everest, the history of record base jump Valery Rozov will be understandable and interesting even for the uninitiated viewer. The picture reveals details of the project, telling about several years of preparation, all the difficulties of the ascent and the jump. Unique footage shows a man and a team who are willing to risk much, for the sake of the goal set and incredible feeling of flight.

April 9, everyone will be able to see the movie Flying High. The Quest for Everest at the premiere screening at the cinema «35 mm», and also to ask all questions of its main character - Valery Rozov.

Address: Moscow, M. Krasnye Vorota, Pokrovka street, 47/24.
Guests gather - 20.00
To start showing - 20.30

Free entrance

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Hello! In Longyear on Spitsbergen everything was okay. Every day, group after group fly to Barneo, we have two flights a day. This morning, a group of Russian scientists flew ice and evening flight was sent with a group of plane Artur Chilingarov. On Barneo they plan to hold a friendly football match between the local staff team and the team of Arthur Chilingarov.

Meanwhile ... our ski groups continue to move in the direction of the North Pole, along the programme Last degree (111 km ). Also, the group of Rick Schweitzer sled dog continues to move.

In the area of the camp Barneo was seen three polar bears. Borneo urgently requested to hand in these additional weapons, and that was done.

Alex with his tennis coach...

The new store Red Fox was opened recently in Kathmandu. And Luda Korobeshko represents a major showcase...

Alex joined his wife (шт fact, she is in Moscow) in the showcase window. Right on seen the royal palace...

Alex and Israfil Ashurly in the store Red Fox in Kathmandu...

Israfil with Firuz Dadashov (right) goes on Shisha Pangma. All purchases made, and nonsymbolic...

Sherpas expedition 7 Summits Club are preparing to travel to Everest...

Guides 7 Summits Club Sergei Larin and Dmitry Ermakov fly to Nepal...

Seven Summits, hello! This Tanzania, Horombo hut. Very tight-knit group we have today ... We all reached the top of Uhuru Peak, all are in excellent condition. Now we are almost down to Horombo hut. We stand 100 meters above. We've got a connection with our guiding company, therefore, we decided to call you now. Tomorrow our mountainous part is over, clients go through a day on safari. Once more - hello! Artem Rostovtsev.

A new Everest expedition on the 7 Summits Club is beginning. Alex came to Nepal with a guide of our Tent Peak expedition Vladimir Kotlyar. They were met by the 7 Summits Adventure director Mingma Gelu...

Our Everest Sherpas Team in the office of & Summits Adventure

Вчера в столицу Непала Катманду вылетели два гида Клуба 7 Вершин. Это Александр Абрамов - капитан Клуба и руководитель ежегодной экспедиции на Эверест. И Владимир Котляр - гид Клуба и руководитель двух предстоящих непальских экспедиций - на Тент Пик и на Айланд Пик.

Александр Абрамов и Эверест

Владимир Котляр и ....

Завтра уже прилетают первые участники программы на Тент Пик (это в районе Аннапурны) и экспедиция стартует!

Экспедиция на Эверест начнется чуть позже. Через пару дней в Катманду прилетают еще 3 гида эверестовской экспедиции - Сергей Ларин, Дмитрий Ермаков и Ноэль Ханна. Участники начнут прибывать 9 апреля.

Всем удачи!

Manager 7 Summits Club Anastasiya Kuznetsova is currently in the city of Longyear, on Spitsbergen. In the next month she will perform the duties of the coordinator of the work of the ice camp Barneo, preparation for the construction of which is in full swing.

Preparation for landing on an ice for the construction of a camp Barneo

Now, what is clear from the window

Polar evenings

Official site of the project Barneo from the Russian Geographical Society
http://barneo.ru/

It is an airstrip of about 1200 by 60 meters size, which is built at the end of March on the drifting floe in the area around 89 degrees North. This is a fully functional runway, capable of landing the Antonov An-74 cargo-passenger aircraft.

Ice Camp

Ice Camp is the main infrastructure component of dominantly tourist expeditions to the North Pole, a unique complex for hosting visitors and base personnel. An Ice Camp consists of specially designed tents with rigid frames. All the tents are heated, and the temperature inside is kept between 15 and 18 °С.

The largest ones are mess tents: one for staff and one for visitors. These tents are connected by a kitchen block. Mess tent for visitors is the main place for meetings and briefings, here travelers meet and get to know each other. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners are served here at specified times, and snacks, tea or coffee are available 24 hours a day. Living tents for visitors accommodate up to 12 persons. Camp staff lives in separate modules. An important part of the Camp is bio-toilets. There are also technical modules for storing and maintenance of equipment.

If necessary, the Camp doctor can provide medical first aid.

The Scientific Camp and the camp of helicopter crews are satellites of the main Camp.

Since it is impossible to keep the runway on drifting ice floe for more than one season, the Camp has to be constructed from scratch every year. This is the main difference between this project and that of the similar projects in the Antarctic. At the end of every season all the equipment is removed from the ice.

Members of thr 7 Summits Club Natalia and Igor Smirnov climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in november of 2013 by Machame route.

An expedition of the Belarusian company GURTAM took place at 22-28th of February. They climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and have a business-confernce in hotel. Alexandra Sak was a guide of the group.

Just called Artem Rostovtsev . The group of Artem is OK, they went down to 4000 m. In the morning, they were on the SUMMIT!. There was very strong wind . But … all right. Today, they descend to Mweka. Tomorrow I meet them at the Mweka gate.

And about the group without our guide, who arrived in Tanzania on 24th of February. Two members - Yangirov Nail and Galia already flown home. Beymuratovy Camille and Victoria went on safari Prokuschenko Sergey is now near poolside at the hotel.

All are happy

Hello! This is Alexander Sack Kilimanjaro. This morning we climbed to the highest point of Kilimanjaro Uhuru Peak. There was a strong wind and very beautiful sunrise. We all tired, but very happy. Now we are descending to Horombo. Have dinner and go to bed. Bye, bye!

Hi! This is Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club. We are now at the Marangu Gate. Just 5-10 minutes and we quietly go up along the standard, all favorite route Marangu. We will have to spend the night on the 2700 Mandara hut. Hello!

The group consists of four members: Alexey Ponomarev, Cyril Vdovin, and Arkady Dudin and Catherine Lunegova.

Audio (In Russian):

The second group followed immediately behind the first, with a small interval .... On January 23, the participants met with the guide of 7 Summits Club Vladimir Kotlyar in Mendoza. On February 5 in heavy weather conditions (strong wind) our guys made their way to the top of Aconcagua. Well done!

The 7 Summits Club guide Vladimir Kotlyar sent photos of the first ascent of the season on Aconcagua .... The expedition took place from 3th to 18th of January. The team consisted of 8 people. January, 15 brothers Vladimir and Konstantin Lavrentjevs, Gennady Anuchin, Denis Kiriyenko and Vladimir Kotlyar reached the summit.

Hi! This is a guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Sack  from Tanzania. Today, 35 of the 36 members of our expedition were at the top of Kilimanjaro. With the weather we were lucky. The mountain was in a good mood. In general, all participants are happy, though tired . Now we get down below in Mweka camp. Tomorrow we plan to go down already in civilization, in Moshi. All is well, all right. Hello! Bye!

"Sparta - a project for men to develop confidence and overcome fears.

For 4 years we spent Sparta project more than 140 training programs in Russia and the CIS, and alumni of the project were about 4,000 people from dozens of cities. "

Here you can find more information about the project - http://spartarussia.ru/index.php

Top coaches project Sparta Anton Razor (Rudanov) and Ed Halimov headed group climbed Kilimanjaro

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, from an expedition to Aconcagua. Today there was a long day, and the mountain showed its severe character . Nevertheless, our group climbed the top. Today, except us, at top there were 4 more persons … That is, four Canadians were after us. There was very strong wind, all groups cancelled and turned back from the trail. It was little confusing. But we decided to try our good luck. And good luck smiled to us, we reached the top.

Now we went down on Plaza de Mulas and tomorrow we plan to go to the warm Mendoza. We want to warm a little our bones because were frozen to horror. Generally, all thanks who worried about us! Good luck!

Hello! Today we begin our first expedition on Kilimanjaro organizing by our new Tanzanian office. This will be a record by number of participants expedition. 36 young climbers (Spartans) from different cities of Russia ! They arrived today from different parts of Tanzania and even Kenya. Clear, that the day before they arrived in Africa from Russia.

A few hours later we were at the gates of the National Park at Machame Gate. Our young Spartans went to the assault of the "roof of Africa" on the beautiful Machame route. By the way, many of them decided to go in sporty style - with heavy backpacks, without using " slave labor ", as they said.

Wait for messages from the mountain on the further adventures of the Spartans from the guide of 7 Summits Club Sasha Sac!

Luda Korobeshko

Lyudmila Korobeshko: Hello from Tanzania! Today the group of 36 people under the leadership of our representative in Tanzania and our guide Sasha Sak goes to a way!

The expedition starts from here - from a cafe Union...

And we open representation of the 7 summits Club in Tanzania...

On a photo - Sasha at Tanzanian office...

At the end of October 2013, an ascent of the western summit of the "two-peaked mountain" was made by experienced mountain climbers: Karina Mezova, who has climbed to the summit of Mount Elbrus 130 times, and Abdul-Khalim Elmezov, President of the Climbing Federation of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Both climbers are close friends of the 7 Summits Club, both are Everest summiters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCA4W9ltGKA&feature=youtu.be

Russia Today

http://rt.com/news/olympic-torch-mount-elbrus-511/

A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter relay on October 25, 2013 and released by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, shows torchbearers carrying an Olympic torch at the Elbrus Mount in Russia's North Caucasus region. (AFP Photo/Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee)

With the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi just round the corner, the Olympic Flame has been lit at the summit of the highest point in Europe, Mount Elbrus, which lies in the Greater Caucasus mountain range.

During the relay, the longest in Olympic history, the Olympic torch has been seen at the International Space Station, in outer space, on the bottom of Lake Baikal, at the main Buddhist temple and monastery in the Republic of Buryatia, on top of Avachinsky volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and at the North Pole.

A team of five experienced mountaineers has also reached the summit of Mount Elbrus with the Olympic Flame in a special lantern, the Torch Relay Committee revealed on Saturday.

Although commonly known as a mountain, Mount Elbrus is in fact a layered volcano, which last erupted about 2,000 years ago. It has long been a challenge for climbers from across the world, with the first documented ascent of the eastern summit in 1829. The slightly higher western peak was first conquered in 1874.

The plan to take the Olympic Flame to the western peak of Elbrus, at an altitude of 5,642 meters above sea level, was developed separately from the main Olympic Torch Relay route to have a chance to choose the best possible weather conditions for the climb.

At the end of October 2013, a Russian team of mountain climbers made an ascent of the western summit of Elbrus. One of the mountaineers, Karina Mezova, has climbed to the summit of Elbrus 130 times; the other, the president of the Climbing Federation of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Abdul-Khalim Elmezov, has climbed Elbrus more than 220 times.

A total of 14,000 torch bearers have taken part in the 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, with the oldest participant aged 101. Meanwhile, the average pace of the Olympic Torch Relay is 534 kilometers a day, with a variety of means of transportation available to ship it, including the traditional Russian three-horse sled, the troika, dog sled and reindeer sled, a hot air balloon, an amphibious motorboat, a medieval “ladya” Russian sailboat, a motorbike, a water scooter, a wakeboard, a ski bike, a snowmobile, as well as a snow-and-swamp buggy, just to name a few.

The 2014 Olympic Torch Relay has been hosted by 135 cities located in all of Russia’s 83 federal subjects. The longest nonstop leg of the relay spanned 2,055 kilometers, between the cities of Norilsk and Yakutsk in the Russian Far East.

On the official site of the Torchrelay of Sochi2014

http://torchrelay.sochi2014.com/en/photo-and-video#video=the-olympic-flame-has-been-lit-at-mt-elbrus