All news: October 2015

"The purpose of the expedition – make a film about the unique glaciers, which are currently on the verge of extinction. The film will be shown at a reception in honor of the 210 th anniversary of the Society at the Moscow State University.

The expedition "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is timed to the 210th anniversary of the Society and the 80th anniversary of release of the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Information and reports on the expedition will be published in our newswire as well as in social networks. "

Now the group went to the National Park Ndarakvay, which is located on the border with Kenya. There must be taken views of Kilimanjaro and picture of wildlife in Africa.

Then the group will climb Kilimanjaro by the Western traverse route Lemosho making additional stops to acclimatize and to shoot panoramic plans in specific points of the route.

29th October 2015 the 7 Summits Club organized a lecture entitled "How to climb Mount Everest." The Club President Alexander Abramov reveals the secrets of climbing the highest mountain in the world. He is six time summiter of Mount Everest, and more importantly, led the 17th Himalayan expeditions, as well as hundred of commercial climbing and traveling tours around the world. The lecture was held as part of the new Mountain School Project of the 7 Summits Club. Watch the video and photos ...

How to climb Everest. Part 1

How to climb Everest. Part 2

All pictures here

Arrival to Nepal, whether you visited this country before or a newcomer, is always a thrill. Especially, when you have a wonderful reception by 7 Summits Club office in KATHMANDU. #Gokarna Forest resort where we are staying is a ranch full of wonders. Starting with curious monkeys, jungle walks, SPA on premises and very polite and helpful personell.
Our group is here to see how international and Nepalese efforts of overcoming the major 2015 earthquake aftermath is taking effect on tourists and tourism industry in general. Kathmandu office of 7 Summits Club is located in the trading center of the city and full of memorabilia, authographs, books and awards.

Going around historical center and surroundings of Kathmandu, we can see that 2015 earthquake did a lot of damage. Over 1000 people lost their lives in Kathmandu itself. At the same time, many buildings had survived 8+ magnitude #earthquake in Nepal. Probably it's because all buildings tight up together with concrete, masonry, metal frames, that it makes one monolith net of houses, knitted into each other for centuries. Many buildings are still not rebuilt. Not enough funding. And funding comes from tourism - mountaineering, climbing, trekking, rafting, historical sightseeing, spiritual searches, and many others. And the tourists are not here. Tourism had dropped 50 to 70 percent in different segments. It will be a bigger post later on this subject. So stay tuned.

Mountain School Project of the 7 Summits Club started with the first workout climbing season 2015-2016. It was on Monday, October 26 in the Children's Palace of Sports.

Alexander Lastochkin, our coach, led the training. During the training were practiced belay skills, the initial elements of rock climbing: the correct location on the terrain, the optimal distribution of the load on the hands and feet. We climbed in a lot, but simple routes.

In the final part: lessons on fingerboard and on the bar with elements of gymnastics.

Hi! It says Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the The 7 Summits Club. We continue our expedition in Africa. Climbing the top, the main part of the program on Kilimanjaro we did. We were on the summit all five, as I said. Today we had the first day of the safari. So the African adventure continues. Today we went to the Manyara National Park ... and I'll tell you, we've seen a lot of animals: elephants, giraffes, buffalo, hippos, and we were even lucky enough to see a leopard.

October 29 (Thursday), beginning at 19.00. Next Thursday we will start a course of theoretical training on mountaineering. The first will be six time Everest summiter Alexander Abramov.

"How to climb Mount Everest." Beginning at 19.00
Address: Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya 7.

Alexander (Alex) Abramov has organized 17 Himalayan expeditions, 12 - on Everest.

We were treated by the ordinary people who never go to the mountains, to help them to climb Everest. And now, after the Hollywood film, it has become a common issue: could untrained novice climb the top of the World? Although the answer is obvious to us, but it requires clarification ....

Alexander Abramov believes that the top of Everest is available to any healthy person!
Everest is the scene of specific mountaineering, and now it may be reached by climbers of different levels of training.

Olga Rumyantseva from Nepal: in recent days, we drove many miles and saw many interesting things. We watched the sunrise view on Annapurna. We walked through the wonderful town of Bandipur. We talked with the grandson of Tenzing Norgay. He answered our numerous questions and we were invited to Kathmandu to come to his home for a Cup of tea.

We passed a trekking in the jungle, where monkeys rode and through the rice fields.
Was went on rafts down the river. For many of our comrades this was the first such experience. It was very funny and wet.

Today we arrived at Royal Chitwan nature reserve where we were met by elephants. And then during the jeep Safari we saw rhinos, crocodiles, deer, mongoose and numerous birds.

Jumbo, my friends! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, I speak straight from the highest point of Africa, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak - 5895 meters. The great weather, what stunning views! The whole group reached the summit. People, of course, tired. They still do not quite understand what they did. But I think on the way down, they could understand all. Good job! And now we take pictures, admire the beauty. And we begin the descent. Down, down, down - to eat, to rest, to recuperate. Tomorrow we will continue go downhill ... ..

The sky is clear. In fact, all previous days we are very unlucky with the weather. Unfortunately, it rained, it was damp and we could not see anything. But now we are above the clouds, and the view is breathtaking. In general, you could congratulate us with the successful climb! We did it!

Good everything! It says Vladimir Kotlyar from Mount Kilimanjaro. Today we have climbed to a height of 3,700 meters on the Horombo hut. Here we celebrated the birthday of Luba, member of our team. Congratulations to her with his birthday! We wish her achievements, not only mountain peaks, but all through life. And ... yes ... traditionally, our team came up with a name. The name of our team - "Tactics of trump dozens" ... This here is an interesting name, think for yourself, why is it so. Tactics leads to success ... So we hope the climb with this tactic will lead to success .. In short, it was Vladimir Kotlyar. We continue to climb. Tomorrow we will have an acclimatization outing with return back to the Zebra Rocks. All the best!

Olga Rumiantseva from Nepal: 

 Today we visited Kathmandu. Moreover, we got acquainted with the capital in very different ways. We went to see the stupa of Boudhanath. It is being rebuilt after the earthquake. But, despite the fact that the top of the stupa demolished, the atmosphere of the place is preserved.

In the monasteries the monks pray, in souvenir shops to tourists trying to sell the most incredible things.

 Then we went to Swayambhunath. Having 365 steps on the road photographing numerous monkeys, we cleaned our karma, and looked at Kathmandu with the bird's eye view.

 After that we went to the Kathmandu city, on the famous Freak street. No freaks or hippies we discovered there. Looked at the consequences of the earthquake, as this part is in Kathmandu has suffered enough.

 In the end of the day, we went to visit the Director of our Nepali office – Mingma Sherpa. He invited us to visit his home to meet the family and enjoy traditional Nepalese food.

 Tomorrow morning we fly to one of the paradises of Nepal - Pokhara.

Hello everyone! This is Vladimir Kotlyar from Africa, with a team of two boys and two girls. Today we startб our adventure begins. Now we leave from Moshi towards Marangu Gate. Our climb to Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, starts from there.

In the spring all we were shocked by the tragedy of Nepal, native and close to us the country, the victim of a catastrophic earthquake. We understood and still understand that the main thing in our power to do is to facilitate the return in full of the flow of tourists in the Himalayan Republic. And it is very important to inform tourists about the current state of the country, its willingness to receive guests.

Tomorrow the press tour in Nepal will start, it is organized by the 7 summits Club and our Nepal office the company 7 Summits Adventure under the patronage of the Ministry of tourism of Nepal.

In the trip following media take part: the crew of the First channel, journalist of TV channel "Culture", the representatives of several well-known print media, the authors of the guidebooks. It is planned to conduct live reports on radio station "Mayak".

Tour purpose: to show that Nepal after the earthquake, is ready to welcome tourists, its inhabitants welcome guests and await their return. Our company, like their Nepalese partners, we can offer trips for every taste, from budget to luxury tours. The word for the press...

This Tuesday, October 20th, new expedition of the Club 7 summits starts on Kilimanjaro under the leadership of our guide Vladimir Kotlyar. During the program, the team plan climb the highest peak of Africa, but also to arrange a trip to the national parks of Tanzania.

We have worked and printed the photos submitted for the contest Miss Gornyashka 2015. Then hung them in the hall, where we asked the guests of "birthday party of the 7 summits Club" put "pros" of the selected photo. One plus from one person. People's opinions were divided, but the leaders were clearly defined. And we want to reward them.

And the first place we will hand the new edition of book of Anatoly Boukreev Everest. This special offer from the company BASK, which released a new edition just in time for the release of the blockbuster. Thank you to them! The brothers Bogdanov personally presented the book on our evening and handed her our most honored speakers for the program participants.

You can see more photos of the competition here >>>>>

15th October, in the evening, in the store room of "Active rest" on Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya it was noisy. More than 150 guests shared with our Club the Day of our birth. The whole evening they had to choose between listening and viewing performances, with one side of the hall. And friendly communication with the other side of the hall. It was difficult to catch both.

We will try to restore a little bit of history to the chronology:

of the evening:

Time - October 15 - Thursday 20.00

Location - Moscow, Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya d.7 (Shop "Active Life") m. Prospect Mira

By leading Russian climbers and direct participants of the events

In the Programme:
- The main guest of the evening - "Mr. Everest"
- Project 7 Volcanoes
- Mountain School of 7 Summits Club
- Climbing Mount Everest in Business

And:
- Crimea is Yours
- Alaska is still Ours
- How to climb the Matterhorn

And:
- Summing up 2015
- Awarding of the winners - climbers
- New projects and new plans to capture the mountains

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov  already from Moscow. As you know, we visited  Matterhorn, but we have not climbed it. Two of the guys who came before us in the Matterhorn - and we do not see them. We hope that they all right. Morning, I saw a helicopter flying around the Matterhorn. We hope that they are OK...
I and Luda, we went down to Zermatt, then we climbed Riffelhorn, then we went down to Chamonix ... Well, basically, what the reason: there is no people, no trails, rocks in the snow, all the ropes in the ice. The main conclusion is that we must climb in the Alps, yes, actually in all the mountains, right in the season.

Hello! Alexander Abramov and Ludmila Korobeshko from the foot of the Mount of Matterhorn. Now we are, half an hour ago, came to the hut Hёrnli. Chic new hut, and we managed to find a winter bay. It was on the second floor and have to climb the stairs.
Well everything is inside: 20 beds, light, of course, a place for cooking and even a battery that works. The only problem is, there's no blankets. It is specially made to how few people there for the night. We  also did not bring sleeping bags...

Lyudmila Korobeshko: We passed climbing up a few hours on the slopes of the mountains of the Gran Paradiso, sinking almost to the waist in the snow. We realized that we did not get to the top to 12 a.m. at such snow and pace. Tired but hungry, we went back to the flooded showers Chamonix.

Guides: Alex Abramov, Valery Babanov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

Alex Abramov from Chamonix:

Today (5th of October) our team had been training on the glacier Mer de Glace on the slopes of Mont Blanc, near the station Helbronner at 3500m. At first, not all members had enough oxygen. Plus, it seems, before us, very few people went there. Therefore, we trample the snow above the knee. Some of us even fell, and as a result actually fall into a crack. It starts a pulling-out or self-rescue.

The result of today: a conclusion that it is better never to fall into a crevasse! It is not the fact that your partner have the strength and ability to get you out into the daylight.

In the evening, it was a small party of songs with guitar and by the fire!

Everybody is happy. Now we go on a training climb on one of the most famous peaks - Grand Paradiso (4061m) in Italy.