All news: 19 April 2024

Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club, head of the Everest expedition, reports from Nepal:

 Today, the Everest-24 team of the 7 Summits Club made a march from the Tiangboche Monastery to Periche 4300m.  The weather is perfect. And that's why everyone is in a great mood. Everyone feels great!

Representatives of the 7 Summits Club Alla Mishina and Sergey Seliverstov flew to Kanchenjunga base camp yesterday. According to the plan, they should gradually acclimatize right on the route. However, the processing of the route by Sherpas was unexpectedly postponed. The fact is that the priest lama responsible for the consecration ceremony of the event (puja) has set the date for its holding on April 23. And to this day, the Sherpas do not agree to work on the route. So, our climbers just have to sit in the camp at 5,500 and limit themselves to exits up to 6,000 meters. For one thing, to train patience, the most important quality on eight thousand meters.

Lyudmila Korobeshko, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Nepal by satellite phone:

  Hello everyone from Dhaulagiri! So, our team arrived at the Italian Base camp under the Western Face of Dhaulagiri yesterday, April 18. Everything is fine! We flew in by helicopter and set up camp here. And we even managed to take a walk yesterday to acclimatize a little higher. The height is almost 3700 meters. Everyone feels good. The night went well too.  In the evening, of course, we celebrated our arrival under a new mountain for us. And now it's a nice sunny morning. The entire Western Face is visible.

According to the plan, we will spend two more nights here. We will acclimatize today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we are going to move to the main base camp. It's more than a kilometer higher. We will go around the mountain a little bit and approach from the north and our route will run completely from the north side of Dhaulagiri. Well, it's very beautiful, very wild. There are no villages here, the nearest village is two days' journey down. That is, everything is fine, hello everyone! All participants feel great.