All news: 28 December 2021

Maxim Shakirov, a guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Nepal: Hello to everyone from Phakding! Max Shakirov is in touch! Today we still managed to fly from Kathmandu to Lukla and make the transition to the place of the first overnight stay. We walked a little more than two hours to Phakding. With a good mood and appetite, we came to the cozy "Sherpa Guide Lodge", had a delicious dinner and went to bed. Tomorrow will be a difficult trek to Namche.  The mood and conditions in the team are excellent!!!

A short report about today’s climb from father and son Alexander and Andrey: We started from the assault camp (4600) today at 0.15. And we successfully climbed Kilimanjaro (5895 meters) at 6.17 am at the top.  The guides said it was just a great result. We met the dawn right at the peak. From 6.30 to 7.30 we visited the glacier. I have never seen such beauty. They don't usually go to him, since no one has the strength after climbing Kilimanjaro. But, we couldn't put the Russian Mountaineering Federation to shame: we went to it and returned to the assault camp by 9.20.

Thank you to everyone who supported!  Ascent (and descent) was very difficult, and I really remembered your parting words from the manager of the 7 Summits Club! I thought it would be much easier, but the weather has made its own corrections.

Three beautiful women, participants of our expedition from the team "PingVinson" or "Vinson-2" published photos on social networks.  Thanks to Larisa Gorbacheva, Lilia Kovalenko and Daniel Wolfson!

Lyudmila Korobeshko, a guide of the 7 Summits Club, director of the company, from Punta Arenas (Chile):

Greetings to all from the edge of the world from Punta Arenas! We decided to call ourselves "7 nations army" - we counted representatives of so many countries in our group. Although Sherpas will still join us in Antarctica… Today we have finally gathered in full force. We bought everything we needed. Three times we got caught in the rain, two times we were almost blown away by a hurricane and miraculously did not get burned – that is, we learned all the charms of the changeable weather of Punta Arenas. 

We're putting all our stuff on the plane tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow we hope to fly to Antarctica, where Volodya Kotlyar should be waiting for us. He came to the South Pole with a group today.

Happy New Year to everyone!

The guides of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorozhukov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

Maxim Shakirov, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Nepal: Hello everyone from Kathmandu!  It's nice to see this city filled with people, cars and scooters again! We have been trying to fly to Lukla for the second day to launch to our goal - the Everest base camp. But for now – there is non-flying weather… We believe that we will succeed in the near future. The mood and well-being of the participants is fire. We are looking forward to meeting the big mountains!

Vladimir Kotlyar, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Antarctica (audio message): Aloha, to the Seven Summits Club! Vladimir Kotlyar and brothers Valery and Yuri Shamrilo are in touch. AND... WE ARE AT THE SOUTH POLE, FRIENDS! Yes, it was worth it, it's unforgettable! Unique emotions! And, of course, thank you all very much for following us, for worrying about us and wishing us good luck! Tomorrow, if the weather remains as fine as it was today, we will fly to the Union Glacier. Well, friends, once again, thank you all very much! I hug everyone tightly!

Nikita Slotin, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Chile: Greetings to all from Chile from the Black Caps group!  Today we have made the second attempt to climb the highest volcano in the world! But a good forecast wasn't enough and everything didn't go according to plan... We left at 22:00 for the shelter Tejos, spent as much as 4 hours because of the deep snow. Only 2:00 a.m. we went out to storm! Everything went well at first. But we had to interrupt the ascent at an altitude of 6400 meters. At this point, another group caused an avalanche. We realized that the way ahead was dangerous. There are no casualties, the avalanche passed us by! After that, we decided to go down, the mountain did not let us in again, but it taught us a lot! Now we are going to the ocean shore to rest from the snow. The participants are happy to finally return to civilization.