All news: 5 January 2016

Hello! This is Alex Abramov – from the top of Vinson Massif! Whole our team has climbed to the top: Mikhail, Roman, Janusz, Kirill and I, Alexander. Kirill undressed then just to celebrate ... It's nothing, because the weather is perfect. We walked all the time in the windless, it was hot. Can you imagine such we are in Antarctica! Boys, too, are preparing for undressing. If we do not freeze, then immediately will flee to the High camp. Congratulate us: anything we wanted, we have achieved. We now have a long, a very long way home. Best regards!!!

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Hi everybody! It says Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of an expedition on Aconcagua. We are now in the first camp, where we'll stay 2 days for acclimatization. Plaza Confluencia – on called this place. Now we sit, eat, gather strength. We went up not at 3 hours according a standard schedule, but less than 2 hours. While we were not in a hurry, we go slowly watching birds, surrounding landscape. In principle, it can not but rejoice. Hence, more time to rest .... (laughs) ... We all are well. We send greetings to our homeland: Canada, Voronezh, and in my lovely Caucasus, in Elbrus! To all my friends! By!

Ice climbing competitions, called "Golden Capricorn" were in the region of Elbrus, on a frozen waterfall near Glade Narzan. The organizers: 7 Summits Club and the club "Maximum" from Pyatigorsk. Sportsmen from different cities took to the start: Moscow, Pyatigorsk, Stavropol, Nalchik, Kazan, Karachaevsk, Krasnodar, Rostov. Winners: Sheykina Karina (Stavropol), Anna K. (Kazan), Katalevsky Marina (Stavropol), Rinat Aliyev (Krasnodar), Kurzhanov Mohamed (Nalchik), Krutikov Valentin (Maximum Club, Pyatigorsk) ...

The competition was held for the 7th time and dedicated to all our friends born under the sign Kozegorog (Capricorn). The initiator of the competition - the team captain, president of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov, he invented it 15 years ago.

Alexander Grebenyuk, organizer and chief judge of the competition:
"Well, thanks again to the 7 Summits Club for the organization and promotion of this type of sport! Long live the "7 Summits Club" and the mountains! Many Thanks!"

Ludmila Korobeshko: So we climbed on the top of the point most distant from the center of the Earth - on Chimborazo. Impressions mixed – we are down only three hours ago. It is a long route: 1500 m drop, the passage of the hard ice. But vicuna pleased ...