All news: August 2011

Good day, Olga Rumyantseva, the mountain guide of 7 Summits Club from the mt. Kazbek  is speaking. Today our group arrived in Tbilisi, where we immediately went to the village of Kazbegi. On the way we admired the local places of interest and landscapes. In Kazbegi stayed in a beautiful guest house. Tomorrow, we plan a walk and preparation to the entrance to the observatory station (Met Station 3680m), where we will go already the day after tomorrow. We are doing well, bye everyone!

Program: Climbing to the top of the legendary  Mt. Ararat (5131m)

Hello, Tatiana Stukalova speaking from Turkey. 4th of August, all the group of 7 Summits Club climbed the summit of Ararat! 5th of August, we all went down and have a rest day at a hotel in Dogubeyazit. All is good, everybody happy and have a great mood. 6th of August according the plan we fly back home.

Hi, everybody, here is Tina, guide of RESO - Guarantee group in the mt. Toubkal.

Yesterday with the group we were in a lovely excursion in the "African Hollywood ". After that, we moved to the side of the hotel. It was very heavy rainfall that most uncommon for these places in summer. As joked our local guide: "the Russians brought with them a rain."
Now the group is preparing for travel in the desert on camels.
We meet the sunset, will spend the night in a Berber tents, and tomorrow morning, after meet the sunrise we sit down on the camels, and come back in the city.

Nice greetings from our guides Luba Ivanova and Victor Bobok!

Hello everyone, this is Dmitry Ermakov from the Lenin Peak. I guess this is my last message from this expedition. Today we made an attempt to climb the mountain, and ascend to the height of 6700м, but, unfortunately, there were squally wind and we were not able to continue climbing and return to Camp 3. All are very tired, exhausted and don't want to make a second attempt, so it was decided to go down and return to Moscow.

Unfortunately, the mountain didn’t let us a chance to climb till the summit. But it is better to return 10 times than do not return once. All alive and safe, all is well. Good-bye, see you in Moscow.

"Hello Moscow, Dmitry Ermakov speaking. We are located at 6100 m, in the third camp. Tomorrow, if all goes well, we will go to the top. But, according to the forecast, it is possible that tonight will be snow. If the weather will not be acceptable, then tomorrow we have one over night here in the third camp on 6100m.
Today we went from one Camp 2 to Camp 3. It was very hot, the same time yesterday fell 10 centimeters of fresh snow, making it difficult to climb, but in principle is reached, all right. Now we are in tents, all is well.  Bye to everyone".

Good day, it is Lyudmila Korobeshko from the expedition of 7 Summits Club on Korjenevskaya and Communism peaks. Today we had a day of rest, which went quite well, especially after yesterday, then  we celebrated several things: it's my Birthday and celebration of the successful ascend of first 2 climbers of the season at the peak Korjenevskaya. In general, the festival was very nice, so today we slept almost until noon.
Tomorrow we plan to go for the second acclimatization row. We come now for two nights on 5100m camp and further move to camp 5600m,  to establish our second camp, after that go down. In general, everything is fine; everybody recovered after the first night in the altitude. Bye to all!