All news: 21 June 2025

The 7 Summits Club group started from the overnight camp site "Upper Kahiltna Glacier" (9,600 feet, 2,900 m). Participants and guides were divided into four groups and went one after another. The climb was quite steep and difficult. The weather began to deteriorate, it became colder and the wind appeared. The final point of the climb was the camp at 11,000 feet (3,350 meters). This is the area of the so-called Motorcycle Hill. As they say, this is the place where the approaches end and the actual climb begins.

Tati Posokhina, representative of the 7 Summits Club in Alaska:

6/20- Today is the summer solstice! Here in Talkeetna, Alaska, we’re soaking up 22 hours of daylight — and the sun barely dips below the horizon!

No need for flashlights — just endless golden skies, midnight hikes and kisses, and sunshine that never sleeps.

The 7 Summits Club guide Alexander Dorojukov sends from the Elbrus region:

 Greetings from the Elbrus region from the "NaKoshkah" group! We have completed the program with a successful ascent of Elbrus. The weather was clear, the wind is already getting warmer, but it still blows well. It was not easy. But everyone ascended and descended, everyone is happy, medals were awarded, there are plans for future trips.

6/20- News from Alaska.  Today the 7 Summits Club in Talkeetna welcomed our dear friends and climbers from India who successfully summited Mt. McKinley on June 16 Muthamil Selvi Narayanan and Shaikh Hassan Khan.

Narayanan is the first Tamil woman who competed the 7 Summits project. And Shaikh Hassan Khan  is the first Malayali man from Kerala state who competed the 7 Summer project.

This is a huge achievement and we are honored to congratulate you personally!!!

Wishing you both good luck in your new projects!

The 7 Summits Club guide Dmitry Semenov sends from the Elbrus region:

Greetings from the Elbrus region! Today, June 20, our supergroup "Semyonovtsy" climbed Mount Elbrus, to its Western summit - 5642m. In full force, in clear and windy weather, early in the morning we stood on the highest peak of our Motherland.

June 20. Alaska. 7 Summits Club group on Denali #2 is in touch. Yesterday we arrived in Talkeetna. On the way we were thinking up a name for the group. There are several options. We are still deciding. At 13:00 we were briefed by rangers and then flew to the Kahiltna Glacier. After landing, we slept a little and at 4:00 a.m. we moved on to Camp 1. By 10 a.m. we arrived at Camp 1 at an altitude of 2500. Along the way, we lost toilet tanks a couple of times. We set up camp, rested and sunbathed (very active sun). The views are beautiful, avalanches constantly come down from neighboring slopes - everything we like.

Head of the Denali expedition Lyudmila Korobeshko.