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Seven Summits, hello! Take my report. We climbed yesterday in the High Camp, put tent, decided to spend the night for the best acclimatization. But since morning we received a weather forecast that the only chance to reach the top of Mount Vinson– today. And we decided to try to climb on top. And we in all together reached the summit. Now we are already again in High Camp, everything is good. All went down, all are happy. At the top there was very strong wind, but, nevertheless, we could make it. So, everything is good. Hi, everybody! Dima Ermakov.

Guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Lastochkin: Hello! The day before yesterday in the evening we reached Austrian Hut, it is a hut which is assault camp for an exit toMount Kenya. Having conferred, we made the decision to go with light baggage. Earlier we assumed to spend the night in a hut at top of Nelion. As a result, in difficult weather conditions, the group reached peak Nelion, to one o'clock in the afternoon. Where, having looked round on, we understood, we made the decision on descent. Because in such weather it is impossible to risk. Safely now we finished descent and today already we move forward towards an exit from national park.

Two active member of the 7 Summits Club Natalia and Igor Smirnov came toKenya. Their tour was starting inTanzania, they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro by Machame route with local guide.

Climbing Kilimanjaro – this is not the only aim of this small team. It was acclimatization before the main task of the trip: immediately after the descent from the highest peak in Africa, December 16 , they flew to Kenya (Nairobi), where they met the guide of 7 Summits Club. It is a multiple champion of Russia on mountaineering in technical class Alexander Lastochkin. Together they plan to climb the highest point of the Mount Kenya- Batian (5199 m) . They will have to climb a fairly hard rocky route .

Natalia and Igor were with 7 Summits Club inMorocco, where climbed to the top of Jebel Toubkalin November last year. In the summer of 2013 they made the ascent oт Mont Blanc.

Seven Summits, hello! This is Dima Ermakov from the South Pole. We're OK, yesterday we reached the South Pole. Today we went on an excursion tour of the Base (Amundsen-Scott). It was interesting, of course. Now we are “sitting on the suitcases”, waiting for a plane that can not fly yet because of the weather in Union Glacier. We rest, take pictures. Everything is fine. Best regards!

In the evening on December 14 the Federation of mountaineering ofRussia(FAR) collected mountaineering community in the Rianovosti fine press center inZubovsky Boulevard. There was a presentation of awards for outstanding achievements in mountaineering in 2013. Everything was great! We saw many interesting presentations and met a lot of wonderful persons. Pleased that the 7 Summits Club received many thanks from the organizers, participants and guests for a help in organizing the meeting.

Alexander Ruchkin and Vyacheslav Ivanov (St. Petersburg) became the winners of the first prize of evening "Golden axe ofRussia", a prize for the best climb of 2013. For a new route "Falling in the void" inNepal.

Competition for the best ascent of the year is held by Russian Mountaineering Federation since 2007.

It is the official name - National Award " Golden Ice Axe of Russia". 7 Summits Club is not the first time acting as a sponsor of this event. We are all climbers and current interest in the development of our sport. We believe that the important thing is to support the country's strongest climbers and disseminate information about their achievements . It is to this purpose, and should serve as a contest.

We invite all our friends !

Place: Moscow , MMPTS " RIA Novosti " Moscow, Zubovsky boulevard , 4, " RIA Novosti " .

DATE: December 14. Saturday .

Arrival of guests at 18.00

Seven Summits, hello! Dima Ermakov from Antarctica. Today it was the second day. The first day as we landed, we went a little bit, .... Yesterday we passed 15 km. Now we have morning, today we will have a third day running. All participants feel good. In general, we are all normal. Weather until favors. Cold, true, but then the sun shines all the time. Hello!

Vitaly sent a massage direct from the summit of Orizaba

Hello! Dima Ermakov from Punta Arenas. Today, all the members have arrived, finally. Our expedition practically already begun. Tomorrow we will have introductory briefing. All products , all things, everything is ready, packed and purchased. Actually we are sitting on suitcases .

If all goes well, the day after tomorrow we will fly. Weather make us happy. Pilots are flying almost every day. So I hope it will be all according to plan and we come in time. All is well, Hello! FromPunta Arenas, Dmitry Ermakov.

December 1 Vitaly flew to Mexico, where the goal of his ascent will be the highest volcano in North America -Mount Orizaba. If everything will be normal, immediately after the descent, he crashes in Chile, where is his final object of Seven Volcanoes. This is the highest of all the volcanoes in the world Ojos del Salado.

The first of volcanoes for Simonovich was Kilimanjaro in 2011. There is a chance that Vitaly will be the fastest man in the world who have completed the program Seven Volcanoes . And, because not so long ago Vitaly Simonovicр has successfully completed the 7 Summits in two versions : with Carstens Pyramid and Kosciuszko, he could be the fastest on the sum of two programs: the 7 Summits and 7 Volcanoes .

Good luck!

Made by Vladislav Lachkarev after thia summer's tour:

Alex Abramov sent us the first photo impression from Papua. Their group had climbed the highest point of the country Mt.Wilhelm and the tallest volcano of Australia - Mt. Giluwe.

Hi! Dmitry Ermakov from Africa. Today, we are the full team reached the summit of Kilimanjaro and went down to Horombo Hut. The weather was good, though it was very cold ..... People had a little cold ... but I'm sure it will be cured byZanzibarquickly, as well as in safari.

Tomorrow we go down to civilization ... and our program continues. All right, Hello!

Team members: Sergei Shevchenko, Sergei Tenitsky, Roman Polanski; Polyanskaya Juliana; Pokutny Maxim; Zograbian Arman. Dmitry Ermakov - a guide of the 7 Summits Club.

Hello ! Our team sends greetings to all from the top of Mount Wilhelm, the highest peak in Papua New Guinea. Here we went up just 3-5 minutes ago, took pictures with our beloved flag, and are now beginning to slow down. Weather, thank God, improved, and will give us the opportunity to go down without accidents .... The team is: Oleg , Gregory , Michael , Vladimir, Vyacheslav , Lyudmila and Alexander. That is our cheerful company. Now we have to descend down. We walked up about 8 hours, and plan 7 hours to go down, because there is such a slippery road. The slippery, covered with dirt and grass rocks. That's it! I hope everything will be fine. So long! Hello everyone !

The group is on top of Island Peak! Everything is perfect, the weather is great! It can be seen all at one hundred percent .... Hello everyone! Soon we will start to go down ....

Hello ! Thus is Alexander Abramov from Papua New Guinea. Today Alexander Abramov and Ludmila Korobeshko and Oleg Griga, three, climbed to the top of Mount Giluve, the tallest volcanoes in Australia. We have dedicated this climb an old holiday, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The rest of the team, four persons, climbed the unnamed peak elevation of 4,000 meters,

Tomorrow the whole team goes down, in the town of Mount Haggen. And after spending a night, we go to climb the highest peak inPapua New Guinea–Mount Willhelm, whose height is about 4500 meters. All these expeditions quite unique, are under severe weather conditions: rain, mud, swamps...

Lyudmila Korobeshko : Greetings from sunny-rainy city of Mount Haggen, it is Papua New Guinea!

Here from morning to afternoon sun bakes and in the afternoon downpour begins and continues till the morning.

Today at 9:00 am the team arrived. Two days of continuous flight were little tired, but people kept well. The first step, of course, medicine.

After all, tomorrow at 5 a.m. there will be a start on mountain in the pouring rain and cold. We must somehow get warm. A warming agent (alcohol) is only in a special kazimats type of concrete with wire and guard the perimeter, released by coupons ... We got it.

The guys found a wealth of climbing experience. They gladly shared their stories of climbing on Mount Kazbek, Elbrus, Ararat, Kilimanjaro, Cotopaxi, Aconcagua, Orizaba. Were even on the tops of the rarely visited as Huyten in Mongolia and Tajumulco in Guatemala.

But such a strange country, they said, they see for the first time.

Early tomorrow we shall go. Let's see what the feelings will be after returning from a three days of shower climbing in the tallest volcano of Australia and Oceania – Mount Giluve. Now the boys were firmly outlined a dip in one of the highest lakes ....

Today, November 5, in the morning we went to the Kala-Patar. Everything went great. The weather was favorable - the sun. Visibility was complete. Now we are down to Gorak Shep, drank tea. Well, will go down. We will spend the night in Lobuche, where we have a large cultural program. We'll say goodbye to Oleg and celebrate yesterday's birthday of Andrew. All we have is almost as planned. Brilliant. Do not worry, we're OK!