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Natalia Marinkevich, Head of the Crimean programs of the 7 Summits Club:

Fyodor Kuprichenkov completes the program of the Mountaneering School of the Crimea. Perfect weather for rock climbing and the most beautiful Summits of the Crimean Mountains! Crimean Via Ferrata is an ideal place to explore the sheer cliffs and manage your own fears.

Andrey Berezin, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Nepal:

Namaste from Nepal!  The group "Kumari of October", after visiting the Everest Base Camp and Khala Patar, set off on the way back to Lukla.  And successfully got to her.

On this day, we were accompanied by beautiful weather.  After high-quality morning exercises (thanks to the guide Evgeny Fedyunin) and breakfast, we went on an excursion to the abandoned village of Gamsutl. A wonderful path led us to the ruins of a once large settlement. For lunch we moved to the modern village of Choh. Then we visited the observation point, from which the artist Aivazovsky painted the famous panorama. And a visit to the Saltinsky Waterfall. Local canyoning was quite a worthy end of the day. Thanks to our Dagestan partners, the organizers of the tour! Thanks to all the participants!

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Nepal:

Namaste from Nepal from the group "Chronic climbers", which goes to Island Peak! Today we moved to the village of Chukung. We are gradually getting closer to our one more goal. We came, settled in, and after lunch we conducted classes on ascent and descent with the help of jumars and abseil devices. In general, the day went great.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Nepal:

 Namaste from Nepal! Two of our groups, the climbing "Chronic climbers" (going to Island Peak) and the trekking "Kumari October" (Everest Base Camp) admired Everest in all its glory.  Today we climbed to the top of Kala Patar, in full force. The weather was gorgeous, the group was cheerful, well done!  We were rewarded with gorgeous views of Mount Everest and the surrounding mountains.  Now we have already gone down to Dengboche, we are resting. Everything is OK!

Group guides: Alexander Dorojukov and Andrey Berezin.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Nepal:

Namaste from Nepal! Two of our groups, the climbing "Chronic climbers" (going to Island Peak) and the trekking "Kumari of October" (Everest Base Camp), reached the first goal. Today, in full force, we went to the Everest Base Camp! We walked well, the weather accompanies us in recent days is excellent, the condition of the team is stable. The landscapes are beautiful! In general, everything is fine.  Tomorrow we will get up early and go to Khala Pattar!

Group guides: Alexander Dorojukov and Andrey Berezin.

Saturday, October 7th. A message from Nepal: "Today the Nepalese have a day off, thanks to this, we were able to leave Kathmandu for the Rolwaling Valley at the 8th hour without traffic jams. 7.5 hours of traffic on roads of different quality (repairs are underway), and we reached the settlement of Chhyothkhyot at an altitude of 1410 m. We are staying here tonight for the night, then we will have a trek. Very comfortable in temperature (after KTM) place, with beautiful views. We met only one trekking peak expedition in this location."

  Alexey Lonchinsky (owner of Piolet D'Or) and Yuri Koshelenko (also owner of Piolet D'Or) today go to the high-altitude zone of the Himalayan Mountains to make a record ascent. The two are planning to make the first ascent to the top of the Rolwaling Kang along the technically complex Southeastern buttress.  At the moment, no one has been on this summit at all. In 2015, a Japanese expedition attempted to climb, but in the end the team ascended to the neighboring peak. The buttress is the most attractive in a technical sense, it is beautiful and logical. Alexey and Yuri received a permit and started trekking in the direction of the base camp on the Drolombao glacier.

This is the second joint ascent of Alexey and Yuri. In 2017, the two made an ascent to Fangi Peak (6538m), for which they were nominated for the Golden Ice Axe of Russia award.

The expedition is supported by the Vento Company.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Nepal:

 Namaste from Nepal! Two of our groups continue their way to the foot of Mount Everest: the climbing "Chronic climbers" (goes to Island Peak) and the trekking "Kumari October" (Everest Base Camp). Today our gang-team with jokes got to our next village - Periche. The gorgeous weather favored us, Everest, Lhotse, Ama-Dablam opened, we walk well.

Group guides: Alexander Dorojukov and Andrey Berezin.

The Guide of the 7 Summits Club Andrey Berezin reports from Nepal:

Namaste frome Nepal! Our two groups moved from Phakding to Namche Bazaar in a friendly composition today. Today was a colorful day: picturesque flora, many suspension bridges, and the reward: Namche Bazaar, the capital of the Sherpas. Group guides: Alexander Dorojukov and Andrey Berezin.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Andrey Berezin reports from Nepal:

Namaste! The Himalayan season has begun! Two of our groups: the climbing group "Chronic climbers" (going to Island Peak) and the trekking group "Kumari of October" (Everest Base Camp) arrived in Lukla yesterday and went on the route.  The first night in Phakding, in a beautiful comfortable hotel. A cyclone came to the Himalayas, all afternoon and night it was pouring heavy rain. Today we hope to arrive in Namche Bazaar, the capital of the Sherpas, before the rain. Group guides: Alexander Dorojukov (trekking) and Andrey Berezin (mountaineering).

Starting in June, the expedition of the 7 Summits Club to K2 ended in early August.  The conditions for climbing corresponded to the image of the "most inaccessible" and dangerous mountain in the World. We did not wait for any stable weather window, but in general we successfully coped with our task.

On July 27, 2023, sisters Maria Oglobleva and Ekaterina Safronova, Dmitry Moskalev and high-altitude operator Vladimir Kotlyar climbed to the top of K2.

On July 28, Lyudmila Korobeshko, Daniil Briman, Valery Tebiev and Arno Ter-Saakov (Armenia – Latvia – Monaco), as well as cameraman Luis Lopez Soriano (Spain) reached the summit.

A total of 8 participants, 2 high-altitude operators and 10 Sherpas ascended the summit of K2 from the expedition of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club. There are 20 people under the leadership of Lyudmila Korobeshko. The ascent took place in bad weather, with a poor condition of the route. The more honorable the victory!

During this expedition, a film was shot, which later became known as "The High Altitude Gene 2. The Mountain of all mountains".   We are waiting for the release of a new masterpiece from RD Studio. In the meantime, watch the trailer!

RD STYDIA team

K2 climbers in Moscow 28.09

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Ratmir Mukhametzyanov reports from Kazakhstan:

 We have run out of training camps in Tuyuk-Su, the members of the NP-2 group have completed their program!  We made 4 ascents from 1B to 3A of the difficulty category. The participants of the gathering studied and practiced, walked and climbed, jumared and dulfered. There were a lot of lectures, practical classes, evening gatherings, after climbing, they did an analysis of mistakes.

The cherry on the cake was climbing the route 3A of the difficulty category with an instructor as a leader, so that students could observe the work of a professional on the wall from the side. Although before that they climbed, collected stations, oriented themselves and interacted with each other independently.  We have learned a lot, but there is still a long way to improve.

I was very happy to work with such motivated students!

Our team is trying to grasp the last days of the training camp and absorb the maximum amount of experience from the instructors. Today, the NP-2 group went to the peak of Octebrenok on route 3A. The key sections were led by the coach, the guide of the group Ratmir Mukhametzyanov, and the students absorbed the experience and watched carefully. Such a scheme of training ascents allows junior dischargers to clearly see how professionals work.

The group "The Devil's Dozen" today successfully conducted classes on belay points and stations on the rocky terrain. We learned how to use friends, got acquainted with nuts, and tried to place pitons. There is no destruction - all the rocks remained intact. After lunch, we held lectures and debriefings. Tomorrow, according to the plan, climbing and working out what has already been studied. Guides Nikita Slotin and Alexey Lonchinsky.

Greetings from Tanzania from the 7 Summits Club group "Zvyaginstein's Adventures"! Today, the group successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Everyone is healthy, happy and has already gone down to the camp! Details tomorrow!

Olga Rumyantseva, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, sends from Tanzania:

Greetings from the Zvyanginstein Adventures group to everyone from Tanzania! Today we went up to the assault camp of Kosovo at an altitude of 4900 meters, from where we will go out at night to climb. Everyone feels good. It's snowing outside, but we hope that the weather will improve by the time we leave.

 The main group of the expedition of the 7 Summits Club climbed to the highest point of the Manaslu massif this morning. Victor Volodin (head), Yana Zharkova, Nikolai Lukin, Nikolai Shipilov and 5 Sherpa guides who accompanied them successfully reached the summit. Yana did it on her birthday, and at the age of 23 she became the record holder of Russia as the youngest climber on the eight-thousandther. We are waiting for a message about the descent to the base camp.

List of Sherpas :

 1: Lakpa Sherpa-Makalu 1 🇳🇵 6:30am

2: Tashi Sherpa-Makalu 1 🇳🇵 6:30am

3: Lakpa Tenje Sherpa-Makalu 1🇳🇵6:30am

4: Ong Dorchi Sherpa-1 🇳🇵6:30am

5: Ngang temba sherpa-Makalu 1🇳🇵6:30am

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Olga Rumyantseva reports from Tanzania:

 Greetings to all from Tanzania from the Zvyaginstein Adventures group! This morning we made a climb up the Baranko wall - a march with light climbing elements. After climbing the wall, we continued our way to the Karanga camp (4035m). Unfortunately, we were covered by a cloud, so our way passed without any views.

In the camp, the cloud never left. Therefore, we spent the rest of the day mentally preparing for tomorrow's climbing to the assault camp and for the summit, hiding from the drizzling rain.

Manaslu! Another summit! Today at 5.50 in Nepal, another member of the expedition of the 7 Summits Club Ruslan Laukart made a successful ascent on Manaslu. He came out of Camp 3 (6800m).  And by lunchtime he went down to the Base Camp! That's the speed!

The rest of the expedition members are now in the Assault Camp 4 (7400) and are preparing for the ascent tonight! We hold our fists for them! By the way, Yana Zharkova will go on the assault on her birthday. On September 24, she turns 23, and she may become the youngest Russian woman ever to climb the eight-thousandth peak.

Roman Laukart and our Dandy cook at Manaslu Base Camp. Just after the summit.

A test drive of the Transglobal Car Expedition project has started. The route passes through the mountainous regions of the USA. Filming of the participant of the event from the President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov + fragments of official filming.