All news: 5 April 2023

At the party on April 6, the team of the 8000 Club expedition to Makalu will be presented to the guests. Come and wish them a good journey! In this millennium, Russia has not yet been represented on this mountain by such a large and strong expedition. All the participants of the expedition have extensive experience of climbing, including eight-thousand meters. And Valery Babanov and Israfil Ashurli are recognized authorities in the world of sports mountaineering. Good luck, weather, health! Everyone come back with a victory!

We present the participants of the 8000 Club expedition on Makalu.

1. Irina Zisman. Moscow.
Experience: The Seven Summits project. Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu. Ama-Dablam.

2. Lilia Kovalenko. Samara.
Experience: 6 Summits from the Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu + Lhotse.

3. Veronika Zaripova. Ufa.
Experience: Everest, Ama-Dablam, Lenin Icon. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu + Lhotse.

4. Vladimir Belkovich. Moscow.
Experience: The Seven Summits Project, Everest, K2, Manaslu, Lenin Peak, Ama-Dablam. Plans 2x8000 - Makalu+ Lhotse

5. Igor Smirnov. Moscow.
Experience: 6 Summits from the Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Shisha-Pangma, Ama-Dablam.

6. Vasily Kernitsky. Moscow.
Experience: Everest, Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Korzhenevskaya Peak, Communism peak, Lenin Peak.

7. Yuri Lukyanov. Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
Experience: 6 Summits from the project "Seven Summits", "Snow Leopard", Manaslu.

8. Valery Babanov Valery. Chamonix.
The star of world mountaineering. New routes to the eight–thousand-meter Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri, twice winner of the international prize "Golden Ice Axe", the best ascents in the Himalayas - new routes to the Peak  Meru, Nuptse and Jannu.

9. Israfil Ashurli (assistant to the head of the expedition to Makalu) Baku. Azerbaijan.
Experience: The Seven Summits project, Everest, Manaslu, Broad Peak, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Snow Leopard.

Head: Lyudmila Korobeshko. Director of the 7 Summits Club. She has completed the Seven Summits project three times, visited the poles twice, three times Everest summiter, Cho-Oyu, Manaslu.

The 7 Summits Club is holding its 20th anniversary expedition on Everest in 2023 under the permanent leadership of Alexander Abramov.

We present the participants of the ascent of Mount Everest

under the program "VIP Ascent of Mount Everest (8848 m)

with a man-legend Alexander Abramov"

Golov Andrey, Moscow.
Civil servant.
Experience: the program "Touching Everest".

Gyulmagomedov Kazbek, Turuf, Republic of Dagestan.
A professional helicopter pilot.
Experience: the mountains of Dagestan, many times Elbrus, Ojos del Salado.

Mishina Alla, Moscow.
Entrepreneur, presenter of a program on television.
Experience: Ojos del Salado, Vinson, Matterhorn, Kenya, Ama-Dablam.
* The only climber who climbs in the Crimea six with a dog in a backpack.

Andrey Polyakov, Pervouralsk.
Entrepreneur, head of a retail chain of construction stores.
Experience: in the mountains since 2010, Everest (from the north), Elbrus, Lenin Peak, Island Peak, Vinson, Ararat…

Participants of the program "Touching Everest. Climbing the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 2 (6400m)"

Lazarevskaya Elina, Rostov on Don.
The director of the circus.
Experience: Kilimanjaro, Crimean rocks.

Bogomolov Sergey, Saratov.
The record holder of Russia for the number of eight-thousand-meter Summits that he has climbed. It is in preparation for the expedition to K2.

In addition, our expedition will include a sports team that sets ambitious, but achievable goals. We will inform you about the details in the near future.

Team of guides:

Alexander Abramov is a guide, the head of the expedition, an eleven–time summiter of Mount Everest.
Elena Abramova is the Base Camp manager.
Andrey Selivanov is a doctor.