All news: 2 August 2011

Hello everyone, this is Dmitry Ermakov from the Lenin Peak. I guess this is my last message from this expedition. Today we made an attempt to climb the mountain, and ascend to the height of 6700м, but, unfortunately, there were squally wind and we were not able to continue climbing and return to Camp 3. All are very tired, exhausted and don't want to make a second attempt, so it was decided to go down and return to Moscow.

Unfortunately, the mountain didn’t let us a chance to climb till the summit. But it is better to return 10 times than do not return once. All alive and safe, all is well. Good-bye, see you in Moscow.

"Hello Moscow, Dmitry Ermakov speaking. We are located at 6100 m, in the third camp. Tomorrow, if all goes well, we will go to the top. But, according to the forecast, it is possible that tonight will be snow. If the weather will not be acceptable, then tomorrow we have one over night here in the third camp on 6100m.
Today we went from one Camp 2 to Camp 3. It was very hot, the same time yesterday fell 10 centimeters of fresh snow, making it difficult to climb, but in principle is reached, all right. Now we are in tents, all is well.  Bye to everyone".