All news: 2014

Yesterday it was a very interesting day, we arrived early in the morning from La Paz to Uyuni town after breakfast and drove by jeep into a two-day journey along the famous salt lakes of Uyuni. First we visited the factory of salt and crafts market. Then he went to the salt museum, where once there was a hotel in the midst of a salt marsh near.

Next we went to the island Incahuasi covered fossilized corals and giant cacti that more than 500 years....

Ending our trip on the program: "School of Survival in the mountains - the Crimea"

Today at 15:30 we finished to climb the route of "7 Summits" on Ai-Petri!

We were waiting for this moment for 3 years from the date when the Ai-Petri route was made in honor of our club.

The route is very cool, long, but our friends from Yalta equipped it with high quality and it is practically safe.

We are: Alexander Abramov, Luda Korobeshko (both from Moscow), Sasha Marinkevich and Sasha Noskov (both from Yalta).

Just in the process of training our team climbed on rocky mountain massifs Krestovaya, Koshka and Nikita. We climbed Routes: "Surprise" and "Shambala" on Uarch Kaya and Route "7 Summits" on Ai-Petri.

We are very happy and want to stay in the Crimea to live ... But we need to go back....

Group of climbers on the Mera Peak led by guide Vladimir Kotlyar returned home from a trip to the Himalayas. How not envy people who have realized a dream, in the expedition where everything was well done. However, not everyone was able to reach the highest point. Do not worry. We must continue to enjoy life and to dream a new dream ...

18.10. The first part of the group arrived in Kathmandu.

19.10. The second part of the group arrived, all united

On 20 October. Flight Lukla. Most adrenaline traveling. Airfield as a park attraction.

21.10 Rise in Chhukung

22.10. Test number1. The Pass in tomorrow

22-25.10. 4 days of trek up the valley.

October 25th. Climbed to the top of the valley village - Khare. People live here! In space!

26-27.10. Acclimatization and training.

28.10 Ascending and Descending.

Climbed to the top:

Maria Dyachenko,

Tonkov Michael,

Shilkin Sergei,

Kostin Oleg,

Iskandarov Anwar,

Vladimir Kotlyar guide.

Heroes!

29.10 and further - Down, down, to the restaurants! Home!

Sergey Larin: Hello Seven Summits! Information from Irian Jaya. The active part of our program is over. Today we went to Sugapa. Tomorrow on a small single-engine aircraft we fly to Timika and then to Bali ... We all good, everything goes according to plan ....

Hello! Luba Pershin from Peru. Today we returned to Cuzco from Machu Picchu. We had a very hard day, but very interesting. We climbed the mountain Huayna Picchu, which towers over the citadel of Machu Picchu. Not easy climbing, frankly, after trekking. But we were in the most beautiful location of Machu Picchu. Also we hike with our guide at the citadel. We looked at everything that we can. The weather was wonderful. None of raindrops. Although again I repeat, there is now deep enough wet season.

Hello! Today, November 3, 10 hours and 30 minutes of local time of the Seven Summits team stood a top of Ngugi Ngugi, as the locals call Carstensz Pyramid. Now we are at the base camp and have a lunch. I remind our composition: Father Alexander, his son Dmitri, Konstantin and yours truly - Sergei. As for Dmitri, his birthday is April 11, 2001. Our guide Poxy says he had led a 12-year-old American in August of 2009 *. But they did not go a trek and reached base camp by helicopter. So there is cause for reflection. Finally congratulations we will take when we were in Timika. This is approximately a Saturday. The return trip will also not fast. But we have already formed a new goal - is Bali. By! Sergej Larin.

* Jordan Romero climbed to the top of the Pyramid Carstensz September 1, 2009 at the age of 13 years and 40 days.

An expedition of the 7 Summits Club led by our guide Vladimir Kotlyar has climbed Mera Peak in october 2014...

Hello everyone! Vladimir Kotlyar, climbing Mera peak. We just came down from the top. Now we are in the village of Khare. Of the eight participants, whose purpose was to reach the summit of Mera Peak, five coped with the task. The weather was wonderful, but it was very cold, very cold ... to be honest. But it was clear skies. Were visible Himalayan giants: Everest, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Makalu - it was all there, in full view. Overall, a fabulous picture. I congratulate all the participants on the ascent! All done! Everything was wonderful and beautiful. And now we begin the descent down to Lukla and return home. Well, all the best! So long!

The leaders of 7 Summits Club Alex Abramov and Ludmila Korobeshko have climbed the highest active volcano in Europe. So they marked the thirteenth anniversary of their wedding. Every year - a new summit, in a new area.

Azerbaijan's famous mountain climber Murad Ashurly has died in the Himalayas.

The news of his death has shocked Azerbaijani sports community.

Ashurly, 42, made a successful ascent to the mountain Ama Dablam (6856 m) as part of a commercial exhibition of the Seven Summits Club along with eight other climbers. He went missing during the descent.

Later, one of the participants of the exhibition talked about the death of Azerbaijani climber.

Noel Hanna wrote in a social network: "The last 30 hours were the worst in my life. Yesterday morning at 9:30 am we went from Camp 2 on Ama Dablam, to descend to Camp 1. I went first, the rest of the group was behind me. I was coming down for about 30 minutes, and then this nightmare happened. I just finished the descent on the rope (a lot of old ropes and a new one) and went to the next, when the rope on which after me went down after my friend Murad, broke up. Murad fell down to 300-400 meters to the rocks and snow. We started the rescue work immediately, but the weather was very bad. Early this morning I brought his body out of the mountains to Kathmandu on a rescue helicopter. I lost my favorite partner-climber and my friend. My condolences to Olga and the entire family of Murad."

Murad Ashurly was working as a top manager of one of the leading telecommunications companies in the United States. He was a member of Azerbijan's Mountaineering Federation and experienced climbers.
In 2007, he successfully conquered McKinley the highest peak of North America. He was the third Azerbaijani to climb Mount Everest and Kangchenjunga, completing the Seven Summits challenge in 2013.
Murad was the cousin of Israfil Ashurly , the first Azerbaijani who climbed Mount Everest and Kangchenjunga.

A guide of 7 Summits Club Sergei Larin head a new expedition to the Pyramid Carstensz. Three members, one of which is a boy of thirteen, will try to climb the highest peak of the Australian continent. Now they came to Sugapa village...

20th of October a group Noel Hanna (Team Leader), Murad Ashurly, Gennadiy Durov, Iurii Kormazov, Makar German, with Climbing Sherpa's Rinjin Sherpa, Jangbu Sherpa, Pasang Sherpa reached the summit of Ama Dablam. On the same day they went down to the camp 2. The next morning (21.10), the accident occurred at the beginning of the descent towards camp 1. Ashurly Murad died falling with a broken fixed ropes.

We bring our condolences to the family and all who knew and loved him!

Report of Noel Hanna:

"The last 30 hrs has been the worst 30 hrs in my life.

We left camp 2 on Ama Dablam at 0930 yesterday morning to return to camp 1. I left the camp 1st followed by the rest of my team. I just had climbed down about 30 minutes when your worst nightmare happened. I had just came off rappelling down a rope (lots of old ropes with 1 new rope) and moved onto the next rope to rappel when my friend Murad who was rappelling down the last rope I was on and the rope broke. Murad fell 300-400 mts vertically down on the rocks/snow. A rescue was put into place but unfortunately the weather was very bad. Early this morning I accompanied the rescue helicopter and retrieved his body from the mountain back to Kathmandu.

I have lost a good climbing buddy and friend.

My prayers go out to Olga and all Murads family."

2013. Everest of Murad Ashurly

Russian climber Evgeny Voronov, 47 y.o.. The city of Perm.

Evgeny Voronov became the first Russian who committed descent from Cho Oyu on a snowboard, for the first time for Russia from the peaks above 8000 meters. Eugene reached the summit of Cho Oyu 8201m in the team of the 7 Summits Club under the direction of Alex Abramov. Then he made ​​a descent on a snowboard to the first camp at an altitude of 6400m (up to stones). The descent was "clean" without the use of fixed ropes (more than 500 m.)

That evening, Eugene went on foot to the camp ABC 5700m, where the team went down day later.

 Alex Abramov: Today, on almost perfect weather, but only at the knee in the snow littered, we climbed Cho Oyu. Everybody. All seven people, and all six Sherpas. There was a small banquet at the top .. Oxygen was enough. We already went down to Camp 1, where to stay for overnight. Now we're going with the first rays of the sun already down to Advanced Base Camp (ABC). And there we go but down. Just go down, down, down to Kathmandu. After 2-3 days, we will find ourselves there.

Hooray! Hooray! We are on top of Cho Oyu, all seven people.

Ekatherina Pozdeyeva – Anatoly Mensky - Kyrill Muraviev - Oleg Pimenov - Alexander Abramov - Georgy Kuzmin - Evgeny Voronov.

Now is the time for Nepal 9-45. We have plenty of time, and with great difficulty climbed to the summit of Cho Oyu. Seven members and six Sherpas.

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

And now ..

Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Cho Oyu. (coughing) Our team has reached the height of 7100 meters. Tomorrow we will move to a height of 7500 meters, there it is the last camp, "under the yellow belt camp." And from there tomorrow night we will make an attempt to climb the summit. So on Monday, after lunch, wait for information. And yet here we are fine. This morning it was quite a strong wind, a little for frostbite. Then the wind went away and established a beautiful sunny weather. I wonder what will happen tomorrow. Just in case we decided to start later, at 10 a.m… All members of expedition convey greetings to family and friends! Goodbye!

Hello, Seven Summits! It is Sergei Larin from the slopes of Mount Elbrus, from the most luxurious mountain refuge of the North Caucasus Mountain Club. Today, at 9 hours and 20 minutes a.m. Andrei Mikhaylenko and Sergei Larin stood on the western peak of Elbrus. The weather was good, but windy. Windmill, windmill was the weather. Now we are down and we are at the bottom. Getting ready for the new turn. All the details about the blitz - later. So long!

Hello! My name is Natalia Kartashov. I am a Crimean guide of the 7 Summits Club. Yesterday we welcomed guests from Moscow: Sergei Shilkin, Regina Shilkina and their son Artemy. They come to us for three days. The first day on the rock of Krestovaya we tried to teach them the basic knowledge of the art of climbing. They're pretty athletic, everything they do. Tomorrow we will go on the climb, we will continue to work ....

Hello! This is Alex Abramov, expedition to Cho Oyu. Last night we went out to the summit attack. We are now in the camp 1. It is seven in the morning, the sun still have not lit, it is cold. Today we must rise to the second camp at the height of 7100, where we should spend the night and the next day go to the high camp, and from there, almost immediately, to go to the top. The weather is still good. The sun shines, the wind is not strong. The mood at all alert, very alert - I'll say this. Well, all, be happy!