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The season of climbing the highest volcano in Australia and Oceania  Giluwe  will begin very soon! This is an integral and most exotic part of the Seven Volcanoes program.  As usual, the 7 Summits Club tries to improve the service on its regular routes from year to year.  This year we are setting up our full-fledged base camp on Giluwe with large comfortable tents.  The first group of 6 participants starts on April 9.  And on May 1, our unique climbing program will begin immediately on the Giluve volcano and Wilhelm Peak — the highest mountain in the country! There are 10 participants in the team.  Boris Egorov, the super-guide of the 7 Summits Club, will work with both groups.

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The 8000 Club has started its work. Among the first steps is a sports expedition on Mount Everest under the leadership of Viktor Volodin. The team is small, but quite capable. We wish the participants and the guide good weather, good luck!

Team members of the 8000 Club expedition on Everest

Dmitry Kurlykov. Samara.
Experience: Elbrus, Mera Peak, Kazbek, Huayna Potosi, Ararat, Tolima, Lenin, Manaslu

Svetlana Kotlyar - Vladimir region.
Director of directions in the 7 Summits Club. Mountaineer, traveler.
I visited Elbrus, Kazbek, Lenin Peak, Aconcagua, Giluva, Lhotse. I do not close the projects "7 peaks" and "7 volcanoes", but I go to iconic and beautiful peaks for me. Everest is a huge dream that has been living with me for 8 years.

Andrey Muravyev from Buryatia.
Entrepreneur, traveler. Visited about 50 countries. I'm on the Everest team. I am following the program of 7 summits - 7 continents. I completed 5 out of 7, Irian Jaya and Everest remained. There are also plans to reach the South and North Poles and close the Explorers Grand Slam program.

Victor Volodin is a guide.
One of the most famous climbers in Russia. Two-time summiter of Everest, summiter of K2 on the Western Face, on the "Russian eight-thousandth" Lhotse Middle, an experienced trainer and instructor.

Elena Kurlykova is also in the team, she will accompany her husband to the Base Camp.

At the party on April 6, the team of the 8000 Club expedition to Makalu will be presented to the guests. Come and wish them a good journey! In this millennium, Russia has not yet been represented on this mountain by such a large and strong expedition. All the participants of the expedition have extensive experience of climbing, including eight-thousand meters. And Valery Babanov and Israfil Ashurli are recognized authorities in the world of sports mountaineering. Good luck, weather, health! Everyone come back with a victory!

We present the participants of the 8000 Club expedition on Makalu.

1. Irina Zisman. Moscow.
Experience: The Seven Summits project. Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu. Ama-Dablam.

2. Lilia Kovalenko. Samara.
Experience: 6 Summits from the Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu + Lhotse.

3. Veronika Zaripova. Ufa.
Experience: Everest, Ama-Dablam, Lenin Icon. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu + Lhotse.

4. Vladimir Belkovich. Moscow.
Experience: The Seven Summits Project, Everest, K2, Manaslu, Lenin Peak, Ama-Dablam. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu+ Lhotse

5. Igor Smirnov. Moscow.
Experience: 6 Summits from the Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Shisha-Pangma, Ama-Dablam.

6. Vasily Kernitsky. Moscow.
Experience: Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Korzhenevskaya Peak, Communism peak, Lenin Peak.

7. Yuri Lukyanov. Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
Experience: 6 Summits from the project "Seven Summits", "Snow Leopard", Manaslu.

8. Valery Babanov Valery. Chamonix.
The star of world mountaineering. New routes to the eight–thousand-meter Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri, twice winner of the international prize "Golden Ice Axe", the best ascents in the Himalayas - new routes to the Peak  Meru, Nuptse and Jannu.

9. Israfil Ashurli (assistant to the head of the expedition to Makalu) Baku. Azerbaijan.
Experience: The Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu, Broad Peak, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Snow Leopard.

Head: Lyudmila Korobeshko. Director of the 7 Summits Club. She has completed the Seven Summits project three times, visited the poles twice, three times Everest summiter, Cho-Oyu, Manaslu.

The 7 Summits Club is holding its 20th anniversary expedition on Everest in 2023 under the permanent leadership of Alexander Abramov.

We present the participants of the ascent of Mount Everest

under the program "VIP Ascent of Mount Everest (8848 m)

with a man-legend Alexander Abramov"

Golov Andrey, Moscow.
Civil servant.
Experience: the program "Touching Everest".

Gyulmagomedov Kazbek, Turuf, Republic of Dagestan.
A professional helicopter pilot.
Experience: the mountains of Dagestan, many times Elbrus, Ojos del Salado.

Mishina Alla, Moscow.
Entrepreneur, presenter of a program on television.
Experience: Ojos del Salado, Vinson, Matterhorn, Kenya, Ama-Dablam.
* The only climber who climbs in the Crimea six with a dog in a backpack.

Andrey Polyakov, Pervouralsk.
Entrepreneur, head of a retail chain of construction stores.
Experience: in the mountains since 2010, Everest (from the north), Elbrus, Lenin Peak, Island Peak, Vinson, Ararat…

Participants of the program "Touching Everest. Climbing the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 2 (6400m)"

Lazarevskaya Elina, Rostov on Don.
The director of the circus.
Experience: Kilimanjaro, Crimean rocks.

Bogomolov Sergey, Saratov.
The record holder of Russia for the number of eight-thousand-meter Summits that he has climbed. It is in preparation for the expedition to K2.

In addition, our expedition will include a sports team that sets ambitious, but achievable goals. We will inform you about the details in the near future.

Team of guides:

Alexander Abramov is a guide, the head of the expedition, an eleven–time summiter of Mount Everest.
Elena Abramova is the Base Camp manager.
Andrey Selivanov is a doctor.

A guide of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov reports from Nepal:

News from April 2. Namaste from the group "In search of papaya"! Today we left the village of Manang.  We left the best lodge on the trek and walked up the most beautiful valley. The weather was perfect, the sun was shining all day and crazy views of Annapurna, Pisang Summits, Tilicho and many others were opened. During the day we went up to the Tilicho base camp, settled in the lodge and are preparing for an early exit to the lake. Tomorrow is a difficult day: we leave at 4:30 in the morning. And today is dinner and early lights out.

A guide of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov reports from Nepal:

Namaste from Nepal! Today we started our trekking. We came out of Chame and saw the first big mountains. After an hour we reached a beautiful place with coffee and donuts. After the doughnuts, it was even more fun and enjoyable. The beautiful weather and the sun made us happy along the way. At lunch we stopped at another lodge to have a snack and relax. After lunch, we slowly reached the Upper Pisang, settled in the loggia. Then we went to the monastery for a cultural program and acclimatization. Tomorrow we go to Manang, looking forward to the incredible views of the mountains and a great walk.

A guide of the 7 Summits Club Sergey Avtomonov reports from Nepal:

 Good afternoon, greetings from Nepal!  We are at the start of the climbing season in the big mountains. And it all starts with small - we go to the trekking around Annapurna. Today we started our event.  Finally packed up, bought the missing things.  In Kathmandu, we walked through museums and visited Swayambhu stupa. Now we are packing up and preparing for tomorrow's flight to Pokhara.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

A mountain school - training courses for climbing Mount Everest, Denali and Antarctica has completed its work in the Elbrus region. We were able to go autonomously with all the necessary equipment and provisions for 5 days to the area of Lake Elbrus, get up to a safe bivouac. We conducted classes on the basic principles of safe movement on ice and snow terrain, how to properly use a field kitchen and cook! For the first time, they were able to go up from the lake to the Mir station and then settle in the houses of the National Park shelter. The next day, we made an acclimatization rotation to 4600 (Pastukhov Rocks).

The weather in the region was unstable, the ascent had to be abandoned. The window for a safe ascent will only be in a few days. We went down. Unfortunately, we were met with rain and sleet...

We hope that next year there will be lower temperatures and more snow! Guides Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

Good afternoon! It snowed the night before and caused concern, but everything turned out well, and it only dusted the bivouac quite a bit. In the morning, we slowly gathered and moved up. For the first time during our events, we left not on the way up to Garabashi station, but up to the Mir station. This was facilitated by the weather and the mood of the participants!

Today we are housed in the National Park refuge, tomorrow we plan to go up.

On February 6 of this year, at 14.30 local time, as part of the 7 Summits Club group, Indira Weaver and Jamila Bashirova ascended the highest point of South America, Mount Aconcagua. Cousins, Kazakh by nationality, they come from the small village of Sosnovka, in the Semipalatinsk region, East Kazakhstan. The Semipalatinsk test site was located 200 km from Sosnovka, more than 400 nuclear tests took place there from 1949 to 1989.

  The famous Kazakh artist Karipbek Kuyukov was born 100km from the landfill, and was born without hands due to radiation from nuclear tests. As a child, he fell in love with art, and learned to draw by holding a brush in his mouth and toes. At the moment, Karipbek is an activist of the anti-nuclear movement, a speaker, an artist, and was even nominated for the Nobel Prize as an activist for peace.

 Tells Indira Weaver: Last year, during our first attempt to climb Aconcagua, we met Miguel Doura, an Argentine artist who lives and paints in the base camp. He showed great interest in the culture and traditions of the Kazakh people, and in Kazakhstan in general. Not many representatives of the Kazakh people have visited Aconcagua, and according to our data (from the Internet), only one Kazakh girl, Saphira Kanaeva from Russia, ascended on the summit in 2014.

 So the idea arose to connect two countries and two cultures through art and Aconcagua.

 After the Canaleta, where everyone left backpacks, Jamila and I took turns carrying my backpack, so there was a picture there. At Karipbek's request, after our successful ascent, the painting was donated to Miguel's private collection.   Miguel was pleasantly touched by such a gift from distant Kazakhstan, and in turn decided to draw a picture especially for Karipbek. Fortunately, Valery Myasoedov still returned to the mountain with the final group of the 7 Summits Club and was able to pick up the painting from Miguel. At the moment, the painting is with him in St. Petersburg, and soon Valera will send it directly to Karipbek in the city of Karaganda.

A climber who first ascended on the summit above eight thousand meters gets the right to be called a member of the 8000 Club. It is enough for him to confirm his desire to join our community. Having joined our ranks, he has the right to receive a beautiful commemorative medal "For climbing the first eight-thousandther". So far, no one has been awarded this award.  You have a chance to become one of the first winners of this award!  Join our expeditions to the Himalayas and Karakorum!

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports:

Today, the first team of Sherpas of the expedition of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club on Everest reached the Base Camp (BC). It has been raining and snowing here for a week. The first cargo also flew to the BC by helicopter.  As usual, the glacier has changed completely in a year. All the flat places stood on end. We need to level up again.  The participants of Everest-23 arrive in Kathmandu only on April 15. And on the 17th, the start of trekking is scheduled, they will reach the Everest base camp only on April 25. That is, Sherpas can level and iron the glacier for another month. That's the hard work of our Sherpas.

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

 Today, as planned, we moved "into the fields". We have reached our usual base, near the Elbrus Lake. The climb took place at a calm pace, everyone feels good, the mood is excellent. The bivouac is set up, dinner is cooked!

Your guides: Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

At one time, the 7 Summits Club identified the "Seven Super-Mountains" in the World.  Seven unique climbing sites on seven continents.  Alpamayo is one of such objects, a mountain of amazing beauty. The 7 Summits Club has repeatedly arranged ascents on this wonderful peak. And we are ready to repeat this experience with new climbers.

Greetings from Alex Abramov and Luda Korobeshko from the USA!

Simultaneously with active preparations for Everest, Makalu and K2, we are also preparing for a large-scale season in Antarctica 2023-2024. This week we met with our partners for Antarctica (ALE). We specially flew to this meeting in Salt Lake City. And we have just incredible news!

 A very large and unusual season in Antarctica is planned. In addition to our standard programs "Ascent to the highest peak of Antarctica Vinson" and expeditions to the South Pole "Last Degree", this time we will have two large groups to the highest volcano in Antarctica — Sidley.

The 7 Summits Club is the first and only company in Russia that started 20 years ago and annually organizes ascents in Antarctica on the Vinson Massif as part of the Seven Summits project and to Sidley as part of the Seven Volcanoes project.

Usually, only 8 people per year are allowed to climb Mount Sidley from all over the world.  But thanks to successful negotiations, we will have two big groups in the 2024 season!

Join us!

Dear friends!  A few words about the upcoming season in Nepal. In addition to a large number of trekking and climbing groups, the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club organize an expedition on Mount Everest and an expedition on Makalu.

We have 13 participants on Everest now, a lot of Sherpas are involved, there will be a lot of oxygen and helicopters. Alexander Abramov will be a leader.  In the team: guide Viktor Volodin, doctor Andrey Selivanov and base camp manager Lena Abramova.

On Makalu we have a team of 8 climbers, it is headed by the famous Russian climber Lyudmila Korobeshko.

As always, we organize expeditions with the best possible service.

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Your Alexander Abramov.

At the beginning of March 2023, the 7 Summits Club held a training camp of a Mountaineering school in the Khibiny Mountains, near the city of Kirovsk. Classes and ascents with the group were conducted by the strongest climbers of Russia Alexey Lonchinsky and Ratmir Mukhametzyanov. During a very intensive program, the participants attended a theoretical course, went through training sessions on rocks and on snowy terrain, and then made two test ascents. By all accounts, the Mountaineering School course was rated excellent. Thanks to the participants, instructors and coordinators Daria Sivova and Svetlana Kotlyar. Special thanks to the participant who prepared and provided us with this video for publication!

 The first expedition of the 8000.Club project  starts on April 17^th to the fifth highest peak in the World -Makalu. Lyudmila Korobeshko will lead the team.  Mount Makalu (8,485 m) has long been famous for a long and tedious trekking approach to the base camp. However, now all issues are being resolved with the help of a helicopter. Makalu is also a record holder among eight–thousanders in terms of the number of routes climbed and their variants. However, almost all of them have been completed only once. The absolute majority of climbers use the French route of 1955. It's A Classic!  A long detour route leads along the glacier and ends with a very beautiful final part.

 Another 8000.Club group will be working on Everest at this time. The team will be led by Viktor Volodin.  They have a special sport program. This year Nepal will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.  Expedition of the 8000.Club will follow in the footsteps of the legendary Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

 You will also be able to follow the news from these expeditions on the website of the 7 Summits Club.

  About a month is left before the start of our climbing programs to the summits of the Himalayan eight-thousandthers. The first to start is the traditional expedition of the 7 Summits Club on Mount Everest under the general leadership of Alexander Abramov.  The main group will work according to the classic program of climbing on the highest peak of the World with full service and maximum possible comfort.  And we will also repeat the successful program "Touching Everest" in the past years, with overcoming the legendary Khumbu icefall and climbing to the Camp 2.  

   This year Nepal will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.  The expedition of the 7 Summits Club will follow in the footsteps of the legendary Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. We would like to be present at the celebration at the end of the expedition as full-fledged participants and happy winners!

 Also this season, the first programs of the 8000.Club project are being held:  big Makalu expedition with  Lyudmila Korobeshko as a leader and Everest by the special sports program (head Viktor Volodin).

Meanwhile, on Everest, the work of installing base camps, processing the route of ascent begins. The "Doctors of the Icefall" have already headed to the base camp to begin work in the Khumbu icefall. The Sherpa team of the 7 Summits Club gathered in Kathmandu before leaving for Lukla. The shipment of goods has begun. There is still a lot of work to be done in the preparatory period. From the photos, it can be felt that our Nepalese friends, our partners, are looking forward to the start of the expedition with great impatience.