All news: 29 December 2024

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov from Punta Arenas (Chile):

News from the Sidley group, Antarctica. Hello everyone from the southernmost continental point of South America - Punta Arenas! The departure, scheduled for December 30, was postponed to the 31st due to weather conditions. But we have something to do! In the morning we checked in our luggage and checked in for the flight, and then went to see the place of the first settlers Fort Bulnes. And some participants even swam in the Strait of Magellan! And tomorrow we will go see the penguins!

It seems that it is time to publish our own guidebooks, because we know the most interesting places and will never let our tourists get bored.

The first stage of the record-breaking Transglobal Car expedition across Antarctica was unusually successful. Without major delays and with a minimum of breakdowns, the team covered a distance of 1,443 km in five days. The Vostok station is located on the top of the so-called Antarctic dome at an altitude of 3,488 meters. Absolute minimum air temperatures for the earth's surface are recorded here. The expedition was not going to relax for long at the station. We had lunch in the historic canteen and hit the road. Now the team has to cover about 1,300 km to the South Pole. Difficulties began from the first kilometers. There was a section of deep snow on the way. They had to change the tactics of movement, the speed of which dropped. But so far everything is going ahead of schedule.

Hola! We went down to Mendoza, where in a warm and festive atmosphere we awarded the participants of the Los Hombres group for their successful ascent of Aconcagua. We congratulate everyone on the upcoming New Year! Group guides Andrey Berezin and Valery Myasoedov.

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov from Punta Arenas (Chile):

Today the team finally gathered. We walked around the city. We visited a meeting of those leaving for Antarctica, as well as sports shops. Tomorrow is the day to check in our luggage.

And we will wait for the flight to Antarctica. Our team is called "Antarctica 7/70".

Dmitry Semenov, a guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Argentina:

Physical-educational greetings from the slopes of Aconcagua! Today our super-group had a great rest day. We walked to the calgaspores and the lake near the base camp. And we deserved a great dinner. Tomorrow the plan is to make an acclimatization rotation to Plaza de Canada (5000 m).