All news: April 2015

The last 3 days, our team have experienced big turmoils . In the beginning from the earthquake and death of a large number of people in Nepal. Then from understanding that our Everest expedition comes to an end.
For the majority of us, this ascenst was the biggest dream of the last years. And the spent time and finance can't be returned.
But now an understanding of correctness of this decision comes to us. Decisions on cancellation of all climbs by the Chinese authorities in Tibet in this season is right.

 First, the moral factor doesn't allow to go for climbing “among” thousands of lost people.
Secondly, the safety issue of ascent isn't rather defined. Tremors still proceed, as well as falls of stones and ice on the mountain and in the upper camps.
Thirdly, other expeditions already started being curtailed. The Chinese team and team on preparation of a route already left base camp. To be alone on the Everest for us it would be very difficult.

Not without regret, but with understanding of a situation, we declare the end of our expedition on Everest. And tomorrow, on May 2th, we will organize "Farewell party" for all big base camp. And the day after tomorrow, on May 3, we begin our far way home.
As the boundary cities of Jangmu and Kodari are destroyed, our way passes through Lhasa. From where all of us will depart on May 6th to Katmandu.
Best regards, everybody!
And with a holiday on May 1!

Abramov Alexander and Everest team 2015.

The group of 4 people arrives to Mexico today. They will spend May holidays, traveling around this country. The group will get acquainted with local sights, a historical and cultural monument, and also will try to make ascent on the highest peak of Mexico the mountain Orizaba (5700 m). It is also the highest volcano of North America.

The program will last from May 1 to May 11.

The guide of this group Liuba Pershina – almost local person, the certified specialist on the Mexican ethnography, also certified Mexican mountain guide, she lived in this country many years. Is it possible to find the best partner in travel in Mexico?

Four more persons are added to our group today - Natalya, Andrey and Ilya Dulskiy from Irkutsk and Andrey Krasnik from Moscow. We almost all together, only Konstantin Ryzhak has to catch up with us in mountains.

Morocco opens to us infinite bright fabulous multi-colored east fairy tale. Tomorrow we go to mountains.

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar. Please find news from our heroic team of Voronezh. Now we are in Namche Bazaar, the capital of the Sherpas. And all we have is good. The weather is excellent. Finally, we are pleased with the weather ... Now - a little stars in the sky ... All day was almost clear, we havea great view on the mountains: Ama Dablam, Lhotse, Everest, see everything ... And we continue to go down ... We continue quietly, slowly down….

Hi, Seven Summits! It Artem Rostovtsev. April 25 we started the Himalayan program. The plan was this: climbing to the top Lakpa Ri is north of Mount Everest. But immediately, the 25th of the adjustments we have made because of the events in Nepal. We tried to act according to the program, but yesterday morning it was reported that Lhasa we will not be allowed in the near future to Everest. Therefore, we have made changes. Now I bring you greetings from the area of Mount Elbrus already!

19 day, April 28, BC (5 200 m), day of rest

Source: blog of Evgeny Karyakin: everest-2015.blogspot.ru

Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there will be planned rest days in the BC after the ABC. We spend it in the internet tent reading the news about the horrible disaster in Nepal and in the Himalayas. The situation with the continuation of the ascent is unclear; there is a lot of conflicting rumors. Leaders of other expeditions come to our camp to talk with Alex Abramov, share gossip, bring and drink alcoholic beverages. The mood at all, in General, is rather depressed.

If you take the dry residue from gossip and rumors, so far there is no concrete. We have no official Chinese statements of authorized persons until now. Leaders of expeditions await of arrival of a big sports boss from Lhasa, it is possible that after his arrival appears some understanding of the situation, or probably not. When we get the big boss is also unknown.

Alex Abramov gives a Skype interview with the Russian media directly from the sun, Valdis Pelsh – by phone, Bogomolov – by e-mail.

On the Internet there are a whole bunch of distorted and just invented informational messages. Importantly, none of the Russian trekkers, hikers and climbers who were in Nepal during the Catastrophe, was not injured... This is important – there were a lot of friends in different places;

Thank God that all living things!

Currently we can only sit, to enjoy nature and to wait for further developments.

Author: Jack Karyakin

All, Hello! This Is Dima Semenov, a guide of the 7 Summits Club. Now we are at 3900 at the hotel-refuge LeapRus. The weather looks quite good. Tonight our group will try to climb Mount Elbrus. Good luck to everyone! All, goodbye!

Hi, everybody! This is Vladimir Kotlyar. Good morning! We have here a morning sunrise over the summit of Everest. We are staying now at the summit of Kala-Patar. We are very lucky: at the moment, visibility is excellent, no clouds, we can see al mountains aound. Simply amazing! He mount of Pumori is right in front of us, of course, beautiful mountain! Now here we take a little break for a smoke ... and we start go down. We plan today to try to get to Namche Bazaar... All the best! We are all OK…

A Message From Denis Provalov. Everest base camp from the North ( Tibet). The expedition of 7 summits club.

Dear friends! Just few minutes we are descended from ABC (6400). I hasten to reassure you. With me and our group, all right, we all are alive, no injuries.

A guide of the 7 Summits Club reports from Nepal:

Hi! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, expedition to Island peak, now probably quoted. Because we finally thought about it and decided that we're not going  the Island Peak. In response to recent events we decided to stop our expedition ... We are now in Lukla (?) .... In the group all feel great. We are a little tired, it's the only thing we have.. Nothing to worry about. Just because we had to help in the evacuation of wounded people... (more unclear)

In Russian

1. On Everest expedition from the North. Today our guide Noel Hanna called. He is now in the base camp with the second group. Today there was an aftershock in B.c... But that's okay. No one was hurt. The camp and the route are at a safe distance from a possible way of rockfalls and avalanches.

They decided not go in the middle camp as previously planned, to wait for the first group.
The first group with guides Alexander Abramov, Sergei Larin and Denis Provalov came out today from the camp at the altitude of 5800 meters into the camp of ABC at 6400 meters. They are also OK. Tomorrow they will descend back to the base camp.

2. The group of Vladimir Kotlyar on Island Peak today in Pheriche has assisted in evacuating of wounded from the base camp of Mount Everest. They have everything in order. Their journey will continue tomorrow

A message from Vladimir Kotlyar >>>>>>

3. A new group led by a guide Artem Rostovtsev flew this morning from Kathmandu to Lhasa. Also, all according to plan. In Tibet, there no great destruction, the situation is calm.

4. Our office in the centre of Tamel (7 Summits Adventures) suffered from the earthquake. All employees are alive and well. They are working from home or from their tents :(

Hi! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, the guide of the 7 Summits Club expedition to Island peak. We are still in the Pheriche. We don't leave this place for the simple reason, that today our group helped to evacuate the wounded, which was got down from the base camp of Mount Everest. It was a lot of them here. So we just found no moral strength to be aside and leave this small village. Our help was very useful. All members of the group, without exception, actively participated in rescue operations...

Then we planned to go further but it was again a new push and we decided not to risk. So we sit here and drink rum just before bedtime, enjoying life. In General, here it is not so bad.

And we send best regards to our Everest expedition! We could not contact direct, we are worry and hope that everything is OK.

So, we sit in the mountains, everything is closed, but somehow we will get from there. All the best! The rum supply allow us to sit here for another week. Not more! Adios!

Hi! This is Vladimir Kotlyar (guide of the 7 Summits Club) from Nepal. We are all well. We're all alive and healthy. Our relatives worried, getting the news about the earthquake. Here it was a few hours ago. We felt it not very strong. The weather deteriorated, it is snowing, but we are safe under the roof.

We are now in the village of Periche. At the altitude of 4276 meters, as written in our Lodge. We're fine, we're going to dinner. All the best! Be Happy!

Yesterday was beautiful and calm

Hello!  This is Alex Abramov, from Tibet, from an the 7 Summits Club expedition on Everest. Today, in Nepal has been a very strong earthquake. The echoes of this disaster were on our side, Tibetan, where is our expedition. All is good here, just several avalanches have come down and somewhere there were rockfalls...

... But otherwise, all is well, we are alive and healthy, sending greetings to family and friends. In Kathmandu all situation is worse, theu said, many victims, destroyed buildings. But also, we contacted with our group which are on the Nepalese side - Island's Peak, the second group in Tibet. All things there are good, so don't worry. They are safe.

We have not very good weather, snow is coming. Goodbye!

Yesterday it was our last rest Day in  the base camp. We have mastered the different possibilities of our base Camp:  played table tennis and billiard, watched TV and listened to a lecture by Valdis on the film making.

 In the evening we celebrated the birthday of Roman Reutov. He is now 31 years old. The evening was not boring, there were: toast friends and the leaders of the expedition, Tibetan folklore ensemble of the people's Republic, famous showman (Valdis)  from the first Russian television channel.  The main item was obligatory dance with every expedition girl in the hall. The party was a success.

 Today the team goes to 5800 m and tomorrow to the Advanced Base Camp at 6400 meters.

The weather is bad, the snow falling down.

 Follow the events live!!

The first outing to the altitude of 5800 meters is usually the hardest.

For the first time the team wears backpacks, and it is hard after the long and heavy jeeps trip. We begin walking on a broken yaqui trail. There is a lot of snow all around. The locals don't remember so much snow. A lot of snow is as on the trail, as on the slopes.

After 7 hours, the team from Basic (5200m) came to an intermediate (Middle) camp.

There is a comfortable accommodation: warm dining tent, warm tents, warm sleeping bags. The camp stands on the crest of the moraine, and all the wind flow around. The night went well, in the morning all were able to wake up :)

Next evening, already in the Base camp we inaugurated our club tent. It is a hemisphere of 12 meters in diameter. Inside there are: the TV, billiards, table tennis, library.

Now almost nobody from members gets ill. But Oleg Pimenov and Liana Chavdarova went down for prevention. They have a mild cough and to restore health, it is useful to stay down in the warmth of a kilometer below the Base camp.

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov from Tibet. Yesterday we had excursions to the Palace of the Dalai Lama Potala. Me and Mingma with the other guides were doing different sorts of purchases, Internet settings and all sorts of other things. Today the hosts said goodbye to us and our team drove 7 hours to the town of Shigatse, where we settled in a very nice hotel. Here we shall buy blankets, pillows, for base camp, in order to live comfortably over the next forty days. And tomorrow we will go further.

By the way, yesterday a dinner was held with the leadership of the Tibetan mountaineering. We discussed, among others, how to fix ropes on Everest. And also we discussed a visit the Tibetan climbers in Russia, to be held in June. The 7 Summits Club invites several representatives of the Tibetan mountaineering, with whom we want to climb Elbrus.
Goodbye! To the following information! Bye!

Hello everyone! This is Olga Rumyantseva from an expedition to Carstensz Pyramid. As I said, the day before yesterday we all by our friendly team in quite difficult conditions climbed (Pyramid) Cartenzs. Igor Stolyarov completed the Seven summits program, what made him for the second day very happy...

We are now on the way home, already nearly reached the third camp. So hopefully soon we will be in Sugapa. And go to Bali, it is time - some participants became similar to the Papuans, speak their language, eat their food, chew red poppy, etc... Bye!

The first expedition on Elbrus of the 7 summits Club in season 2015 has completed successfully. A Guide of 7 Summits Club Artem Rostovtsev returned early yesterday to Moscow from the Caucasus after the successful ascent with a group on Elbrus. The team was lucky with the weather: thanks to the precise providence of guides, they caught a window of good weather between snowfalls. And 14th April (on the fourth day of their stay in the Elbrus region) the summit of the Eastern Peak was made.

According to a guide of 7 summits Club Olga Rumyantseva, today's climb was successful. The whole team descended to base camp. Tomorrow they begin the return journey through the jungle. We congratulate all participants and leader! And especially, that is, separately, we congratulate Igor Stolyarov with successful completion of the program 7 summits!

Igor Stolyarov - on the right