All news: 28 April 2025

Greetings from Elbrus region! Today our supergroup "OdnaKo" opened the season on Elbrus with an acclimatization hike along the slopes of Mount Cheget, to the cafe "Ai" (2700 m). The weather was different, we saw snow-covered slopes, got caught in a snowfall, and after lunch we saw Elbrus and a clear, blue sky. Tomorrow we climb to our assault camp at an altitude of 3800 m. Group guides Dmitry Semenov and Evgeny Fedyunin.

Alexander Abramov, the leader of the 7 Summits Club expedition on Everest, reports from Nepal:

Today was a great day. Everything around was covered in snow. But the dinner was great. Trout, very tasty soup and Russian salad. Valery Babanov came for lunch.

Today the first team (8000 Club) led by Viktor Volodin, 6 participants and 6 Sherpas, climbed to Camp 1. At an altitude of 6,000 meters. Tonight, Abramov's team, 8 participants and 8 Sherpas, will also leave for Camp 1. And then to Camp 2. At 6,500 m. Acclimatization is in full swing.

April 28 Dhaulagiri. Namaste from Nepal to everyone from the group "Dhaulagiri Lovers Club"!

Today we had a day of waiting for the weather to improve at Dhaulagiri Base Camp. It was snowing, the wind was howling, and at times the noise of avalanches was audible. By evening the sky cleared up and the stars appeared. So tomorrow early in the morning we are planning a two-night rotation for acclimatization. Tomorrow - to C1 (5700), the day after tomorrow we will move to C2 (6200) and on May 1 - we will return to the base. Everyone is cheerful and healthy.

Head of the Dhaulagiri expedition Lyudmila Korobeshko.

Mera Peak. April 27/28. Greetings to everyone from Nepal from the "V Meru Peak" team! We are doing great! The connection is unstable, though, so we are sending news for the last two days at once.

Yesterday morning we left Lukla and headed towards the village of Chutang. It is amazing, but the nature here is very different from what we see on the track to EBC, although we simply went to another gorge.

Of course, the conditions on the route are also very different - there are much fewer people here and the lodges are much simpler. But there is a special atmosphere here! We reached Chutang in 3 hours, gaining 700 m in altitude.

It was snowing and raining almost all night. At 7.45 we left the lodge. Today's trek was quite long - 6-7 hours. At first we admired the forest of blooming rhododendron trees, covered with moss and dusted with snow, and then as we gained altitude, the weather began to deteriorate sharply and visibility disappeared completely.

Nevertheless, we overcame the Zatrva La pass (4600), and driven by the wind and snow, we descended to our lodge in the village of Tuli-Kharka (4250), where we are already having lunch and warming ourselves by the stove!  A great working day!

Guides: Alexander Dorojukov and Sveta Kotlyar.