All news: 8 October 2024

 The guide of the 7 Summits Club Andrey Berezina reports from Nepal:

Namaste from Nepal! The group "70s" left Dingboche this morning, altitude 4300m. And in the afternoon, we already arrived in the settlement of Lobuche, altitude 4900m. Today the weather was wonderful and we saw the famous mountains: Ama Dablam, Pumori, Lobuche, Tobuche, Nuptse. On the way we visited the memorial to the fallen climbers. Tomorrow we are going to Gorakshep. And to the Everest base camp.

"Team A" is at the top of the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea - Wilhelm Peak 4509 m! Yesterday we walked a very picturesque trek to the Wilhelm Peak base camp, which is located at an altitude of 3600 m. The route went through the jungle, green valleys and waterfalls - at some point it seemed to us that we were in "Jurassic Park".

Three hours later we found ourselves on the shore of a beautiful lake, where our base camp was located. In the evening we rested and at 01:00 at night we set out to climb. The route to the summit took about 6 hours. It was a little windy and quite cool, and the weather and nature are very different from the region where Giluwe is located. We saw a very beautiful sunrise, saw the Giluwe peak from afar, where we stood literally 4 days ago, and at 7 am we were already standing at the top of Wilhelm Peak!

All the participants liked both the trek and the ascent; without this mountain our adventure would definitely be incomplete!

Greetings from Ecuador from Rustam Makhharamov! Today, according to the plan, is the second day of acclimatization and the second volcano (there are 78  volcanoes in Ecuador). This time it was the Pasochoa volcano (4230 m) southeast of Quito.

Pasochoa - translated from Quechua means "widower". We recently learned this and do not even know what it means. You know, there is a giant crater of a volcano that exploded 100,000 years ago. From the top you can see the full power of what happened. The summit is the top of a wall that goes 500 meters down into the former crater.

If you think about it, it's amazing! The lava flow reached the Pacific Ocean. And this eruption completely changed the geography of these places... there are giant boulders-peaks that are part of the caldera of the crater. And it seems like huge faces in them... like giants frozen in stone.

Most of the trekking on Pasochoa goes along the Andean prairies, from the summit there are stunning views of the volcanoes Antisana, Cayambe, Ilinica, Cotopaxi and somewhere in the distance you can see the inviting Chimborazo.

After another great day spent in the mountains, the evening program continued in the world capital - Quito. An excellent combination of time spent in the mountains and cultural leisure.

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