All news: 18 June 2025

Dmitry Semenov, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Elbrus region:

 Greetings from the slopes of Elbrus! Today, our  group "Semyonovtsy" made their main high-altitude acclimatization rotation to Pastukhov Rocks at an altitude of 4600 meters. In good weather and in a great mood, we completed the planned route. Tomorrow is a day of rest and then an assault on the summit.

 Alexander Abramov, president of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Alaska:

Our team flew out to the glacier. Now we have 20 days of snow and glaciers ahead.

We will fight like lions. The weather is bad. It's raining at Base Camp. The snow is melting. The huge cracks that McKinley is famous for are opening up.

Viktor Volodin, the guide of the 7 Summits Club, sends from Elbrus:

Greetings to everyone from Elbrus from the group "Russian Alpine Federation"! Today the weather was very good and we slowly went to acclimatize to Pastukhov Rocks. The participants are feeling well, the mood is fighting. We are resting, preparing to storm the summit.

6/17 - News from Alaska. The 7 Summits Club Team didn’t fly to the glacier today because of the weather. Planning to departure tomorrow morning. Meanwhile the team is having fun at the base camp of the 7 Summits Club in Talkeetna and celebrating birthday of a teammate Andrey Fedorov!

June 17. Greetings from Alaska to everyone from the second team of the 7 Summits Club on Denali! Today all the participants of the upcoming expedition arrived in Anchorage. We managed to walk along the lake with seaplanes, where our hotel is located, found "fun" shops with what is legal in Alaska and tasted the meat of local crabs. We also visited the Chilkoot Charlie night club, where an exhibition about Russia over the past 150 years is presented.

Tomorrow we have a check of equipment and purchases. The day after tomorrow, according to the plan, we move to Talkeetna and fly out to the glacier.

The leader of the expedition to Denali Lyudmila Korobeshko.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Alaska:

Today the 7 Summits Club Denali team with guide Abramov visited the Ranger station. We had a briefing. We found out where to pee and where to .... How to behave if we meet a polar bear.

Then we moved with our things to the flight to the Talkeetna airfield, where Air Taxi is based.

But the flight was initially postponed until 13:00, and then until 16:00 ....