All news: 8 January 2022

The 7 Summits Club guide Andrey Berezin from Argentina:

Buenos Dias, everyone! Today, a group of Los Bandidos, in order to get acquainted with local attractions, visited an abandoned hotel. Built in the 80s of the 20th century, now the hotel is mothballed and no one lives in it.  Next to the hotel, we held a warm-up exercise, under the guidance of Viktor Volodin.  Now we are back in the Plaza de Mulas, having lunch and relaxing. Tomorrow, according to the plan, it will be an acclimatization ascent to Plaza Canada.  The guides of the group are Andrey Berezin and Viktor Volodin.

Boris Egorov, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Mexico: 

And we continue to warm up on the rocks in the Northern part of Mexico. We came to El Potrero Chico precisely because there are a huge number of multi-pitches (long climbing routes).  And this is exactly what you need to work out the interaction on the wall and develop strength endurance.   Yesterday we quickly climbed a rather long route of 12 pitches. Alexey was in the lead all the way, and the guides only served the delays and enjoyed the views like tourists. After the descent, we decided to run to a small tower before the pile, it looks like we have a solid collection of such rock "spires". At this point, we believe that the preparation is over and we have a whole day of flights and transfers to get to the canyon with a big rock walls.

Sergey Larin, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Tanzania:

News from Kilimanjaro from the group formed by the expedition headquarters of Fyodor Konyukhov. Our high-altitude trekking is going according to plan. On January 6, the group went up to the Shira 3000m camp. On January 7, we moved to the Shira 3900m camp. On January 8, the group goes to the Baranko 4000m Camp, through the Lava Tower 4600m. I am writing these lines on Lava Tower, where we have lunch. The participants' well-being corresponds to the heights achieved.