All news: October 2013

Yesterday Nicholay Cherny arrived to us – as a guide of a new Expedition of the 7 Summits Club on Island Peak.

And here in the office today on meet two old friends: Mingma Gelu Sherpa, our director, and Nicholay D. Cherny - legendary climber, 73 years old guide. They have worked together many times on many expeditions to Everest!

They discussed news of the world of mountaineering - new climbs and plans!

Leaders of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov and Ludmila Korobeshko climbed the highest peak in Armenia, Mount Aragats, 4090 meters. That they have such a tradition - to celebrate their wedding anniversary on the top of the mountain that is new for them. At this time, and it is the 12th anniversary, it was chosen Armenia. The country is very pleasant, very promising for tourism, loved the people. The ascent took about 6-7 hours, was held in harsh conditions in the deep snow. But everyone is happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Aragats

The evening party 24.10.2013 was wonderful. Everyone enjoyed it. Guest appearances were excellent. Vitaly Simonovic, Denis Provalov and Valery Rozov spoke with great enthusiasm, showed interesting pictures and videos. At the same time, all had plenty of time for informal communication. We will wait for the next meeting, join us!

Marianna from Tyva: a dance with ice-axe...

Andrey Filkov sent us a message fromAustralia. On the day of his birth, he has successfully climbed to the top of Mount Kosciuszko, the highest in mainland Australia. Thus Andreн fulfilled the norm of the Seven Summits according to Kosciusko (Bass version). Active members of the 7 Summits Club Vladimir Doronin and Alexander Morozov were his partners in the ascent. Earlier, they both climbed the volcano Giluve.

http://7summits-club.com/members_of_club/all/member_1518/

Yesterday, October 23 the first training session of the season was hold. And it was far not the first since the start of the project our training for rock climbing.

At this time, young climber Boris Yegorov was the chief instructor, he is new employee – as a trainer of rock climbing.

The leaders of 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov and Ludmila Korobeshko look after process and climbed. Training session took place at our favorite climbing gym Big Wall.

Participants were few, but it has allowed for some participants to work with climbing belay on the hanging .

By the way, now we are training and invite everyone to join us, to prepare for the next departure in an interesting climbing area. In the near future – climbing tour on the natural rocks to Tenerife orThailand(while both proposals are relevant ). The estimated date - the end of February - beginning of March.

The next training will be held next Wednesday, October 30. In the future, we plan to train two times a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

We invite all our friends, clubmen, participants of our travelers, everything who wants to get acquainted with our activity. You will be able to see the brightest stars of sports, to have a bite and drink beer in their company. We INVITE! On October 24 at 20-00. Shop Outdoor activities,Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya St. 7.

Main subjects:

EVEREST: jump from Northern Summit of Everest. World record on height exit.

The speaker – Valery Rozov.

 Denis Provalov's world record. The deepest cave and the highest mountain.

Vitaly Simonovich's world record. For two years from the beginner to the finish at once two programs:  7 Summits and 7 Volcanoes.

Traditional leading speaker: Alex Abramov

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The message from clubmen of 7 Summits Club. Our three members Andrey Filkov, Alex Morozov, Vladimir Doronin just went down from the summit of Giluve. Everything is good, weather was fine. Such here happens seldom – practically never happens. Now they go down, details later.

Mount Giluve is the highest volcano of the continent ща Australia.

Valery Rozov will act on the party of the 7 Summits Club, which will take place on October 24. He will tell about a record jump from slopes of Everest.

Interview on Red Bull site

I Knew I Would Live, Says Valery Rozov

By Josh Sampiero on 5 June 2013 in Features

Back from his epic jump off Everest, we catch up with the legendary Russian for the inside story.

Valery Rozov may have not jumped from the edge of space like Felix Baumgartner – but his BASE jump from Mt Everest was every bit as epic. Baumgartner also didn't have to worry about crashing into rocks straight after jumping...

When I landed, I was so tired. I felt sick. I didn't even really realize what had happened or what I did until we got back to base camp and began to relax. Then it started to sink in.

The hardest part is having to decide. Jump or don't jump. Is the air jumpable? Is it safe? The decision is definitely the hardest part.

I trained really hard. You have to get there and still be in shape to jump. It's a lot of physical work. I did a lot of technical work, too — because of the short drop and thin air — it's a very technical jump. It's so short, you really need to catch speed quickly.

We made a new suit. I wanted to have the flattest jump possible in such thin air. It's so short, and your body needs to catch the air and the speed. So we took the high-end model suit that I usually wear, and made modifications that would help with that. It took three or four seconds to get to the speed I needed to fly. That's when I knew I would live.

I look for spots like this. That's more of the challenge than the biggest mountain — finding the next new spot. Since my childhood I was a climber. Climbing is still my passion. I'm always interested to do something new.

The main summit of Everest is quite flat and therefore not possible to jump from. You'd need to build a ramp or something. We made the jump from the North Peak of Everest. I'm sure I set a new level for BASE jumpers.

I definitely used oxygen. It wasn't a climbing expedition. We used oxygen for a short time before the jump. I wanted to make a good decision about the safety – and more importantly, we needed to hurry to take advantage of weather, and acclimatization wasn't finished.

Climbers don't like wind. Wind is also not good for me. I don't like wind at all!

It's always very good to see your family and kids. That's the best part about coming home. And as for what's next? Summer in the Alps. And I've got a few ideas for next year, too.

Heavy, catastrophic snowfalls ruined plans of many expeditions in theHimalayas. According to some information, 14 people were lost in avalanches. Our expedition on Baruntse appeared in difficult conditions when in one day dropped out snow more than a meter. The decision to evacuate group by helicopter was made.

On September 28th. our Mt. Baruntse Expedition group flew to Lukla. Then they reached the base camp and begin to work on the route. Before snowfalls they were ready for a final, summit assault

In this Baruntse Group there were total 7 members in the team. As well as 3 Climbing Sherpa and 2 Cook. The team Member are as follows: -

1. Komarov Igor (Team Leader)

2. Pritulenko Oleg

3. Ablyazova Renata

4. Litvinenko Alexander

5. Yakushev Oleg

6. Rakhmatullin Rustyam

7. Iakusheva Elizaveta

Climbing Sherpa: -

1. Pemba Rinjin Sherpa

2. Pemba Nurbu Sherpa

3. Nurbu Chhiring Sherpa

Expedition Cook: -

1. Dendi Bhote

2. Wongdi Sherpa.

Alexey Maleev, who was a member of our expedition in September, sent us pictures of Kilimanjaro. Great job!

While a majority of members of the Global heroic expedition of the 7 Summits Club was quick to return home , a tireless Vitaly Simonovic continued to perform feats . After climbing to the top of Carstensz Pyramid, he stayed on the "green" continent and climbed the highest peak in mainland Australia, Mount Kosciuszko.

Thus, Vitaly has successfully completed the 7 Summits in two versions : with Carstens Pyramid and Kosciuszko. Interestingly, that he began his march over tops of the world relatively recently - in 2011, with Kilimanjaro. And such a quick result - 7 Summits, for a little more than 2 years .

By the way, Vitali is also close to the completion of Project 7 Volcanoes, it remained only to climb to the two volcanoes: Orizaba and Ojos. Both ascents are scheduled for the next three six months.

So, there is a chance that Vitaly Simonovich will be the fastest man in the world who have completed two programs at once : 7 Summits 7 and Volcanoes. And he can also add the Poles !

And once again we congratulate our members of the Global Expedition Elena Gorelik and Mikhail Turowski , who also successfully completed the 7 Summits program on Version 7 + 1.

25th and 26th of September, by two part, our team of ten Russians summited Carstensz Pyramid. It was made in the hard weather conditions: every day’s rain, upstairs - snow, fog. The team: Mikhail Turovsky, Vadim Nadvodnyuk, Sergey Dmitriev, Olga Rumyantseva, Igor Demjanenko, Liana Chabdarova, Jamila Murtazina, Vitaly Simonovich, Elena Gorelik and Alexander Abramov. And also, two Indonesian guide. Bisides, Lena Gorelik, Vitaly Simonovich and Mikhail Turovsky completed the program 7 Summits with variant Carstensz Pyramid.

Full galery is here >>>>>>>

Out very activ member, the first Russian who climbed Seven Volcanoes, Slava Adrov has visited the Africain countre of Uganda wtih its smaller kingdoms. He climbed the highedt point of Ruwenzori mountain - Peak Margeritta, then met gorillas in one of the natural reserve. During his trip Slava made a lot of observation of local ethnic culture.