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The 7 Summits Club Guide Valery Myasoedov sends from Argentina:
Hello from Mendoza! Preparations for the start of the season are almost complete, food has been purchased and packed, tents and public equipment have been checked, gas, oxygen - everything is waiting to be sent to the Base Camp. There are some paperwork formalities left, which we plan to complete tomorrow. Also tomorrow we will meet the first participant of the first group, who arrives a day earlier, and then we will definitely be able to say: "The season has started!" We are in a great mood, the team is experienced, we are confident in another successful season on Aconcagua, a mountain that we know and love well. Guides Andrey Berezin and Valery Myasoedov.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

Good news from the Elbrus region. Elbrus is ours!

Today, December 9, Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko made a winter ascent of Elbrus as part of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days". But first, a sensation! The counter of the number of climbers fell from the top of Elbrus. Probably, from the new year they will install a new "zeroed" one.

This is the fifth mountain of our project. The ascent of Elbrus on October 24 was counted as a training one. Now the project 7 volcanoes - "who is faster" officially begins with the ascent of Damavand on October 31. It is realistic to do it in 70 days.

Oh! It will not be possible to run across Damavand, as our team of the 7 Summits Club starts climbing Ojos del Salado tomorrow. We need to fly to Chile urgently. This will be the sixth mountain of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days".

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

The team has climbed to the refuge. At night, the summit will be stormed. The weather is not bad. It is minus 30 at the summit.

We reached Refuge of 11 for acclimatization. We met the record holder of Elbrus for the fastest ascent, Vitaly Shkel.

The 7 Summits Club Guide Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

Buenas to all! Arrived in Chile, opening the season on Ojos del Salado. Just four flights, with three bags, fun customs upon arrival, and I'm here. On the way, in Brazil, met friends, and of course they were flying in the same direction. In general, everyone fly to Chile, chill on Ojos.

The 7 Summits Club President Alexander Abramov reports from the Moscow-Mineralnye Vody plane:

We're going to Winter Elbrus. The goal is to climb this mountain in order to shorten the project time. And on December 12 we fly to Chile to climb the 6th volcano - the highest volcano in the world Ojos del Salado. The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team had a good rest. We didn't go anywhere for 2 weeks. We sat at home. Time to go to the mountains!

Hello from sunny Mendoza! The advance guard of guides is already here and is starting to prepare for the long season on Aconcagua. Mendoza greeted us, as always, warmly. We passed passport control in 5 minutes, and customs did not even ask what we had in our huge bags. Argentina has changed a lot over the past year, the economy is stabilizing, all the locals note this, but, as a result of the reforms, prices have increased significantly. The official and street exchange rates of the dollar to the peso are almost the same, and the advantage that all foreigners had has disappeared. We have to get used to it...

First of all, we visited the office of our partners, discussed the innovations of this season, met new employees, looked around the warehouse with rental equipment and even tried on some things. By the way, our partners Aconcagua Vision are renting an office in the Diplomatic Hotel this year, which is very convenient for our participants and for us, since we rent a house right across the street. Today, we are planning to sort out the deposit and, at the same time, we are processing permits at the Migration Service. There is a lot of work, but we have everything worked out and tested over the years, there will be no problems. The season is long, until the end of February, and those who are still thinking about climbing Aconcagua have time. Sign up for groups, come, and we will organize everything here at the highest level. Guides Andrey Berezin and Valery Myasoedov.

Program and details…

Next trips: 11 and 23th December.

At the Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation, the official reception of new climbers of all seven-thousanders of "soviet part" of the Pamir and Tien Shan into the ranks of "Snow Leopards" took place. There are now more than 700 of them! The 7 Summits Club and Club 8000 join in the congratulations! The new leopards are: Alexander Semenov (Chita), Maria Sizova (Moscow), Mikhail Krivulyak (Nyagan, Yugra) and Artem Berdnikov (Samara). According to Vladimir Nikolaevich Shataev, who presented the certificates and IDs, this year 8 people met the standards for the "snow leopard", 4 Russians. 32 people climbed Communism Peak, 60 climbed Korzhenevskaya Peak, 46 climbed Khan-Tengri, and 146 Russians climbed Lenin Peak.

At the Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation on November 30, several awards were presented as part of the Steel Angel project. Women's mountaineering is on the rise! The organizers of the Steel Angel project promise to make the guide competition an annual event. We welcome this initiative! We have many guides and they are all wonderful, and all deserve awards. See you next year! Let's keep working!

On November 30, the traditional Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation was held in the building of the historic Palace of Culture of MIIT. The event, in the preparation and holding of which, again traditionally, the 7 Summits Club plays an important role. It can be said that every year the scale of the evening increases, both its main program and additional options are expanded. New types of awards appear, more and more athletes are honored. And in the halls of the Palace of Culture this time there was a lively trade, a buffet was open, there were several exhibitions. The program became longer in duration and ended late in the evening.

The 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club were responsible for presenting memorable awards to climbers of Everest and other eight-thousanders at the gala evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation. Here you can see how it happened. Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko and our wonderful girls-managers did a great job and provided the heroes of the season with a memorable festive evening. Everything is fine with our part of the mountaineering process. As one of our best guides says, "let's keep working"!

Yesterday, the ship of the Russian Antarctic expedition "Akademik Fedorov" left the port of Cape Town and headed for Antarctica. On board is the team of the unique round-the-world expedition Transglobal Car, led by Vasily Shakhnovsky. Also on the ship are Arctic Trucks cars specially prepared for traveling along the Ice Continent. And specialists for their maintenance. And in the team, in addition to Shakhnovsky, we see his constant companion and participant of the 7 Summits Club programs, Alexey Safonov. And also our very close friends Sergey Larin and Vasily Elagin.

This is what our route looks like

1 - Cape Town

2 - Molodezhnaya station

3 - Progress station

The route length is about 5600 km. The timing will depend on the weather and ice conditions in the Antarctic latitudes. We should start moving across Antarctica by December 18.

More information about the expedition:

Transglobal Car Expedition Website

Expedition route

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The 7 Summits Club guide Boris Egorov sends from Tanzania:

Hello to everyone from Africa! Yesterday, Artem Gurshteyn and I admired the views from the summit of Kilimanjaro at dawn. And that same day, we went down to the gate and arrived at the hotel. It's incredible, but we climbed the mountain in three days! And that's more than 80 km! On the last day, we walked about 40 km, gained one kilometer vertically and lost four. This time, we were finally lucky with the weather. There was a clear sky and no wind.

Boris Egorov, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Tanzania:

Meanwhile, Artem and I, having covered half the world in four planes, burst onto the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Only yesterday we flew to Tanzania from Papua New Guinea, and today we have already reached the Horombo camp. That is, we have gained almost two kilometers vertically in 6.5 hours. Along the way, we took breaks to take pictures of blue monkeys and some animals like tree gophers.

The mood is cheerful, tomorrow we are going to the assault camp.

The 7 Summits Club guide Boris Egorov reports from Papua New Guinea:

The challenge from Alexander Abramov was accepted! In 8 hours, he and Ilya Gladkikh reached the top of Giluwe from the start of the trek. We were able to do it in 7! But we weren't really planning on racing. Our minimum program was to descend to civilization and take a shower that same day. To do this, we left the hotel at night to start the trek before dawn. But we only drove 10 minutes and ran into a blockage on the road, and a mudslide occurred. And we spent another hour driving around the back streets of Papua. In the end, we started walking with the first rays of the sun. Incredibly fast, in just 4 hours, we reached the base camp, from there we slowed down, lack of sleep was taking its toll. And we walked to the summit unhurriedly. We galloped back to the parking lot just before sunset and that same day we slept contentedly in our beds.

For Artem (Gurshteyn), this is already the third summit in his project "7 volcanoes in 69 days"!

Then we rush to Kilimanjaro!

The "7 Volcanoes in 77 Days" team is flying home from Papua New Guinea. For a two-week vacation. In the first 27 days, we went/ran to 5 volcanoes on 5 continents. We only slept on the planes. There are still 50 days and 2 mountains left until the end of the project: Ojos del Salado - the highest volcano in South America and Sidley in Antarctica. Today in Port Moresby we met a competing company. Borya and Artem, who want to beat our speed record on Giluwe tomorrow. Good luck, guys! Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gdadkikh.

 Many foreign guides have already congratulated us on the new world speed record. 5 volcanoes on 5 continents in 27 days! Thank you, friends!

 SENSATION!!! The 7 Volcanoes in 77 Days team decided to "re-climb" the first mountains: Elbrus, Damavand, Kilimanjaro.... To shorten the project time!

On November 21 at 13:00 local time, the team "7 volcanoes in 77 days" (Alex Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh) climbed to the top of the Giluwe volcano, the highest on the Australian continent. Alex Abramov reports:

We climbed from the road without an overnight stay in 8 hours. We started at 5 am and reached the top at 1 PM. Now we are going down and flying home tomorrow morning.

There is a fifth volcano in the project! Five volcanoes on five continents in 29 days. Ahead is the most difficult and most remote object: Ojos del Salado and Sidley. In the meantime, we can and should rest.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Papua New Guinea:

 Today another adventure happened. We started the journey with porters through the jungle. Crawling under another tree, Ilya bumped his eye into an umbrella. And he immediately fell to the ground in convulsions. The eye was damaged. We turned around and quickly descended to Mount Hagen. At the Main Hospital, the best specialist in Papua New Guinea will examine him. Saving Ilya's eye is more important than the mountain!

The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team, consisting of Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh, has been flying from Mexico to Papua New Guinea for three days now. It is now the third night on the plane, and we spent the whole day in China. In Guangzhou. We visited the tent factory, which we are now buying for a new expedition to Everest.

The team of the 7 Summits Club of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" is now in Istanbul. On a transfer. We are flying straight to the 5th mountain of the project: Giluwe volcano in Papua New Guinea.

Only 24 days have passed since the beginning of the project (out of 77), and we have already climbed 4 peaks and are flying to the 5th.

There are several places in our groups for Antarctica to Vinson Massif - the highest mountain in Antarctica from the "Seven Summits" project and to Sidley Volcano - the highest volcano in Antarctica. Join now, who forgot or doubted!

The group "14 friends of Julio" with the guide Alexander Dorojukov and the group "7 volcanoes in 77 days", consisting of Alexander Abramov and videographer Ilya Gladkikh, have completed their Mexican program. Together they celebrated the victory, the successful ascent of Orizaba. The participants received well-deserved awards, honorary badges and certificates. Then again, all together they descended to the capital of the country, Mexico City, and are flying home.

At 7:45 am local time, our team gathered at the top of the highest volcano in North America. The 7 Summits Club group "14 Friends of Julio" climbed under the guidance of our guide Alexander Dorojukov. At the same time, the group of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" - Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh - reached the summit. We hope to get more information after the descent to the hotel. For Alexander Abramov, this is the fourth summit of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" (Elbrus, Damavand, Kilimanjaro) in 20 days. Ahead is Giluwe, on the Australian continent.