All news: August 2014

Hello! Alexander Abramov calls from the best, perhaps, in the Elbrus mountain, refuge-shelter named LeapRus. Today our team reached the summit of Mount Elbrus. This is the team Vitaly Simonovich. It consisted of 11 members and 4 guide. As a result, three guides and eight members reached the summit. One of the guides pulled down three women from this team.

And the weather was terrible, on top we spent literally two minutes. Generally, in principle, in this weather you should not go up. But there was a great desire to raise people and to introduce them to climbing.

And we went down to the shelter just in 3. 30 p.m.. With that, we started climbing at 4 a,m,. That is, it is practically 12:00 it lasted. Once again, a strong wind in the afternoon, closer to the top, the snowfall began. Visibility was about 10 meters, and can be less. But it is only in the area of ​​the top, below the saddle was all fine.

The guys all are happy, everyone is happy, thank us. In general, everything is fine ...

Tomorrow we have in the Terskol village, our office organizes, holiday season closing for the guides. Invited all our members climb Elbrus.

And I will say that the shelter LeapRus - this, of course, some fantastic tale. I can not believe that we live here. That all, good-bye!

The tour program is very informative, rich and varied, introduces in the short term with the most outstanding tourist facilities in Kamchatka. Marina Nagel visited with a group of unique places of Kamchatka - active volcanoes Avachinskiy and Mutnovskiy, which are some of the most beautiful volcanoes of Kamchatka. The group also made ​​a boat trip on Avachinskaya Bay and the Pacific Ocean, white water river on the Bystraya river, which takes place among the majestic mountains of the Middle Ridge.

And they are bathed in natural hot springs and pools with thermal waters…

Greetings to all! Vladimir Kotlyar, climbing program Kazbek, from Georgia. We are now at the top of Kazbek. The weather is ideal, the wind a bit strong, but overall, it's okay. Excellent visibility, beautiful scenery, warm. Well, just - super. We brought the flag of 7 Summits again on the top of Kazbek. All members of the team went up: two Michael, Alexander and Natalia.

Now after 10 minutes, we start for the descent. In general, the team is upbeat, it's okay. I would say the ideal climbing happened. Only to come down ideal too. That ‘s all, all the best!

Today, another group of the 7 Summits Club led by guides Dmitry Semenov and Oleg Koshkarev climbed the top of Mount Elbrus. Five out of six members reached the Western Summit. Only one of them, because of the illness, decided not to make an attempt, and move it to the next year.

The second group goes to climb tonight. Alexander Abramov is going to go with them! The weather here is very windy and cold, so that successful ascent today is a big achievement of guides!

A day after, at August 29, we close the summer season on Elbrus by big costume party! This year the theme of the closing - "Pirate". We invite all interested persons to us!

Gathering place Cheget glade - cafe "Captain drink" - costumes mandatory!

Photos of Vitaly Simonovich from the second group:

7 Summits Club finishes the season in the Altai by another successful ascent on the Mount of Belukha. We congratulate the climbers of our group! Meanwhile, the tour continues on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Actions are replaced very quickly: after rafting the river of Bystraya guys will continue by the ascent to the crater of the volcano Mutnovskiy (2323m.).

Another group had just finished a tour of the volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, and went further to the north of Sakhalin. The other day, the next group arrives on the Kuril Islands, which finished the season in the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin.

Hello! It says Vladimir Kotlyar, climbing program of Kazbek from Georgia. We are now at a meteostation, at an altitude of 3600 meters. Today's weather was variable. The first half of the day was so-so, then went to hail storm. But now we see in the sky with an asterisk, all is well, everything is fine. We got lunch, dinner. Tomorrow we go to the acclimatization a little higher. All the best!

Good morning! It is here Oksana Kotlyar. Our ascent of Mount Elbrus from the South on the classics ended successfully. Our legendary band from Orenburg in the 5 people climbed to the top, despite the harsh weather conditions. A strong wind was blowing, zero visibility. All was made in very good pace. Quickly up, quickly down. The beauty of Elbrus we have not seen. But the guys are happy. Yesterday we celebrated this event, presented to all climbers the certificates. All happy! Best wishes!

Hello everybody! This Vladimir Kotlyar from climbing Elbrus team, traverse from South to North. Well, we finally got some kind of window in the weather. Although good weather it is hard to call. The group went to the Western summit and safely, alltogether we descended on the North side of Elbrus. The weather doesn't indulge us panoramas, all in the clouds. But still nice - this is a native part of Elbrus for me, after all. All the best!

Hi 7 Summits! This is Artem Rostovtcev transmiting information from Chamonix. Today we happily went to the top of Mont Blanc. We - this is my group, which operates under the "Classic of the Alps" program. And a group of Sergei Larin, whose program was only for Mont Blanc. The weather was "on the brink", but we all had best time to go. On the descent the wind was such that it was possible to fly over the crest. But we do everything perfectly, it's okay. All are alive and well. Now we are in Chamonix - a lot of impressions. We have one more free day that was redundant. Once again, greetings from Artem and Sergey!

 This is a guide 7 Summits Club Says Vladimir Kotlyar from Climb Elbrus program. Today we had the Summit Day and we have successfully reached the top of Elbrus. The whole group. Now we are going down by “oblique shelf” already . The weather was great. Now on the descent the weather starts to deteriorate. In principle, we descended briskly, so I'm not particularly worried. All the best! Until we meet again!

Group of 7 Summits club under the leadership of our guide Maxim Shakirov successful climbed the highest volcano in Asia Mount Demavend and completed an unforgettable journey through Iran. We publish a small photo gallery that allows you to appreciate the beauty of the country and the joy of tough win on a high mountain...

Full gallery here http://www.7vershin.ru/photos/all/section_571/

A group of Vladimir and Victor Yaroshenko, Alexey Sushkova successfully climbed the highest peak in Africa - Kilimanjaro by Marangu route. Congratulations to our friends!

Vladimir and Victor have already returned home. In one month, they made the ascent at once on two highest peaks - Europe and Africa. Now we are waiting for a detailed report and photos from them.

Alexei Sushkov now continues to travel to the national parks of Tanzania and plans to continue the program in Zanzibar.

 A group of the 7 Summits Club continues to acclimatize, everything goes according to plan, it's okay. However, Andrey Podolyan is on his way home, as he went already to the summit and came down. This is normal, since Andrey arrived at the Tien Shan from Lenin Peak, that is, with a good acclimatization. 7 Summits Club congratulates him with the SUMMIT!

Irina Klimova and Igor Grishkov successfully completed the program, climbing to the tops of the Greater and Lesser Ararat. It was the first ascent of 7 Summits Club on the top of the Lesser Ararat, previously closed to climbers. According to the climbers: Little Ararat - separate top, and not the object for acclimatization. "... About 12 km across and up to 1600 meters. In addition, there is no path and you must climb vertically, on scree. " Hike on Lesser Ararat took 11 h (7 h up - 4 h down).

"The guides were great (Nuri and Musa). Organization at the highest level, all impeccably and professionally, and it's also very warm and friendly feel at home !!! Musa - an excellent guide and an extraordinary man. Thank you so much for the organization and for the recommendation of the guides - a good guide is the key to a successful climb! "

Good evening! This is Oksana Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club. Our program climbing Elbrus, with traverse to the north, has been successfully completed. Despite the harsh weather conditions, we did it! The guys competed for the mountain. We walked up the knee-deep snow, made ​​a trail. A strong wind hit in the face, the snow was pretty much and zero visibility. There were doubts whether such a risk? But reaching the top, we realized that it is worth! Wind dispersed the clouds and we saw the power and majesty of Mount Elbrus. All the best!

Turkish authorities opened for climbing Lesser Ararat. Turkish - it Kucuk Agri. And here are the first news from there, from 7 Summits Club! Our small group went to the top of the Lesser Ararat (elevation 3927m) and is preparing to go to the Great Ararat (5165m).

Hi, everybody! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, an Elbrus Climb programme, from the South. Today we successfully ascended to the Western summit. We very long waited for a weather window which didn't come. Therefore we climbed in that weather which was. But everything passed successfully, smoothly, we went down all. Now we are already in Terskol, are washed, eaten off. All thanks! Good-bye!

August 4, two new groups of the 7 Summits Club began programs of climbing Kilimanjaro. They go on different routes - Machame and Marangu. Alexander Agueyev (Volgograd), Vasily Yanivets and Sergey Chuvilev from Moscow are on the Machame route. After the mountains, they will continue to travel and go on trips to the national parks of Tanzania.

Brothers Victor and Vladimir Yaroshenko from Moscow and Alexey Sushkov from St. Petersburg chosen Marangu route. Interestingly, that Victor and Vladimir have just returned from Elbrus, where they were preparing for the ascent to the highest peak in Africa.

July 27th a team of 18 people in full has climbed the highest peak in the Russian Altai the mount of Belukha. Three of the participants were from the 7 Summits Club. It is interesting that on the same day Edward Myslovsky, the first Soviet climber on Mount Everest, also climbed Belukha.

"Many thanks for organizing the trip" - Anton.

Hello! It is the guide of 7 Summits Club Denis Provalov. Today, our group made a successful ascent to the summit of Mount Elbrus West Peak and 11 people descended on the northern side of this beautiful mountain. Heavy enough route, despite the fact that the weather was just awesome: sunny, no wind. In the morning, probably at four or five it was still cool, and then it was warm, wonderful. The result - 11 people descended on the north side, and three of our team - down to the start point, to the south. We are all very happy. We are now located in a shelter in the North. All in a good mood. Tomorrow we continue the descent toward civilization, toward the town of Kislovodsk. We hope tomorrow to get out as early as 8 am and be at 12 hours on the next camp on the north side..