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Today, June 11, a group of the 7 Summits Club flew to Crimea for training on the rocks. List of members: Yury Zimin, Vadim Khairullin, Oksana Tkachik, Irina Redina, Philip Lerman. The President of the 7 Summits Club Alex Abramov personally leads the program.

Today there was the first session on the cliffs near Oreanda, named Krestovaya. All members were previously in the Crimea, but many years ago. And now they are wondering what is changed.
Sasha and Natasha, regular guides of the 7 Summits Club in the Crimea, gave us great lessons on the rocks of Krestovaya. All were really excited and tomorrow we go to Simeiz to the massive of Koshka (Cat). Day after tomorrow we will go climb a route named Surprise on the steep face of the Foros Wall.

Today, June 10, a large group of climbers (14 people) went on an expedition to Ararat. They will climb the biblical mount under the leadership of two guides from the 7 summits Club - Olga Rumyantseva and Vladimir Shataev (Russian mountaineering legend - he's 77 years).

In plans of the group to reach the summit of Ararat as quickly as possible (ideally in 3 days) and then to study the traces of Noah's Ark on the slopes of mount Ararat. As we know, Vladimir Shataev collected unique materials on this topic.

Today, June 10th, a small group of climbers from our Club flew to Morocco to climb the highest peak in the country Jebel Toubkal and to celebrate the Day of Russia. They are Alexander Semenyuk and Roman Smirnov – both active participants of programs of the 7 Summits Club.

We wish the guys good luck and good weather!

Yaroslav sent to Alexander Abramov video, photos and the short message from the highest mountain of North America of McKinley (Denali): "Sasha, hi. Solo McKinley. Admit to the club of sevensummiters :)…" It is wonderful news! We congratulate Yaroslav! The 7 Summit Club Tops wishes him health, excellent sport conditionsco and new summits! Welcome to ranks of sevensummiters!

Photos with McKinley

Everest 2013:

Yaroslav Sabyrbayev, 43, sales and marketing director of HeidelbergCement, Kazakhstan:

Project of 7 Summits + 2 Poles, 7+1 objects
Aconcagua, 17/01/2008
Vinson Massif, 12/12/2008
Carstensz, 18/11/2012
Kilimanjaro, 15/01/2007
Kosciusko, 06/01/2014
McKinley, 29/05/2015
Everest from Tibet, 19/05/2013
Elbrus, 05/10/2008
McKinley 2015!!!!

Yaroslav Sabyrbayev – the absolute world record-holder, the first winner of the most high mountain tournament on billiards

May 29th at 9 a.m. Peru time we called from the summit of Alpamayo on the answering machine to share the good news. But apparently, the call failed. Yesterday, May 30th, we have already gone down in Huaraz (3300) for the rest. Emotions subsided a bit, but the joy of a successful ascent and implementation of a long-standing dream remains.

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov, I am in Peru with Ludmila Korobeshko. Here we arrived the day before to explore and further preparation new climbing programs in Peru. According to our plan, we must climb first the mount of Alpamayo and then the highest peak of Peru - Huascaran. We are now in Huaraz and soon we leave for a trek to Alpamayo. I do not know whether it will be communication from the trek, but we will try to send messages. So long!

Pictures made by members of blitz climbing on the Mount of Orizaba. The ascent took place in the style of super blitz: 5 hours on the ascent up, 2 hours for the descent down. They were at 7:40 a.m. on the top.

7 Summits Club congratulates the successful ascent!

"That's how we came to the top, glowing with happiness"

The photograph from the top of the Mount Uarch-Kaya. 8 pitches behind. Not a difficult route, but not bad at all, considering that the guys have minimal experience in climbing.
Members: Oleg Pimenov and Paul Dembrowsky. Guide - Alexander Malinkevich. The route "Surprise" in the massive Uarch-Kaya.

Marina Gevirkyan and Denis Provalov haму climbed Mount Elbrus just for two days. They came from Nepal and Tibet from our Everst expedition and used their acclimatization...

This is Viсtor Ershov. Today at 12-30 p.m. I, with my Indonesian group, stood on the top of Mount Elbrus. Hooray! Congratulations to us! Unfortunately, we could not go down the same day. Therefore, we will have a rest on the hut LeapRus. And tomorrow we will celebrate our victories already down at the hotel. All congratulations! Bye!

Hello everyone! This is Viktor Ershov, a guide 7 Summits Club. I'm here on the refuge LeapRus with a group of Indonesian climbers. Today we have been training on the snow, we walked with a rope and examined the correct movements in crampons. At night, we will try to climb the Mount of Elbrus. Exit from the LeapRus - at three o'clock. That all, have a good luck!

Pictures from the first part of the program:

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Everybody, hello! This is Luba Pershin from Mexico. Today, May 9, we farewell two of our partners. They flew to his home in Vienna. We have time in the morning to celebrate May 9th, a walk on the market of novelty, ate tacos, in general, rest remembering our yesterday's climbing…

In the morning in Delhi – a day already in a festive Moscow! So we have a double celebration. Our team came back, all intact and healthy. All  have unscheduled free time, it is - great! And the Chinese government has extended permits for Everest over the next three years. Long live the Sino-Russian friendship! It is rest to hope that Everest replaced an anger at the mercy to any innocent climbers.

Delhi: all free

Moscow!

Today is the day of departure. It is a pity. The Country is magic. Group is wonderful. No one wants to leave. We'll have to go somewhere else all together :)

Hi, everybody! This is Lyubov Pershina from Mexico. Today, on May 8, our group, three persons, as well as it was planned, reached the summit of Orizaba. We made it very quickly in 7 hours 15 minutes, the general time - 10 hours 15 minutes.

Weather was remarkable, the sun, soft fresh snow. There was no thunder-storm as the day before yesterday, that is, with the weather our team was very lucky.

Now we are already down the valley, have already a dinner … now we are ready to go to Mexico City.

May 6 was the day of the mass ascent on Elbrus. And that day had the most favorable weather conditions. Yes, there was a full visibility, but it was a terrible cold. Old-timers say so cold in May was never before. So the climb for our team was not sweet walk. The team reached the top at four, one of the members did not have the strength to a finish effort. We think there was not enough acclimatization. But it was impossible to postpone the climbing. In the following days, the weather forecast is much worse.

Photos taken this morning by Dima Yermakov:

Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Everest expedition. Our expedition is over. Today we flew from Lhasa to Kathmandu. Rumors that Kathmandu destroyed - completely exaggerated. Virtually nothing is noticeable, the city looks like a unbroken. Only a few old buildings collapsed. Everything else - completely unhurt. No external damage in town, roads or buildings. We are now at the hotel Yak and Yeti , everything is fine here. The only thing that the decorative stone, which was on the edge of the pool, got down to the pool. Everything else - completely intact. Today, some people from our team have already flies home, the second part flies tomorrow, the third part - the day after tomorrow ....

During the farewell party on May 2th suddenly heavy snow threw, the wind blew but we are in tent an had great drunk and overdance. It was great! And in the morning we saw a snow-covered sunny camp – as a nature has made us a gift for our departure:

The team of the "7 Summits Club", Valdis Pelsh with his videoteam, and the organizers and members of the remaining 13 expeditions from the Tibetan side were in a difficult situation: CTMA (Sino-Tibetan mountaineering association) closed Everest and all the other mountains of Tibet for the whole spring season 2015.

In the past it was in 2008, during the Olympic Games in Beijing - but that was the planned closure; China urgently closes the mountain for the first time. So we are all faced with unexpected insurmountable difficulty. Well, nothing special, we packed up and went home.

According to recent reports, the number of victims of the earthquake in Nepal has exceeded seven thousand men; our Nepalese partners believe that the government underestimates the numbers three times, therefore, it is about twenty thousand dead - an enormous figure. Tremors continue, in these conditions it is possible to say the same words as Alex Abramov: "You want to the mountain or you want stay alive?".

A group of 15 people led by Anastasia Kuznetsova today made a successful ascent to the summit of Jebel Toubkal in Morocco, the highest peak in North Africa. It's nice that the group has reached   the summit in full, including two children 11 and 12 years old. They did it like all climbers. The mountains  here are beautiful, alive - they are filled with streams, waterfalls, flying butterflies, ladybugs. In general, we walked and admired nature. It was very cheerful and fun. Now we are in Marrakech, enjoy the exotic East, rest after the climb. We have a wonderful mood, and we continue our journey through Morocco. Constantine Ryzhak by telephone from Marrakech...

Today in the base camp of Club of 7 Summits Club there was a significant event. We called its “farewell party”. We were tired to live in uncertainty, and today, at last, people relaxed. And at last, the sufficient attention was paid to girls.

As hit of evening, oxygen cocktail “for free”.