All news: August 2017

Last week, a group of  the 7 Summits Club, consisting of three people, climbed to the top of Mount Kazbek. Congratulations and look forward to more photos!

Message from France: We climbed Mont Blanc via Gouter route. Weather presented a real challenge in the form of a strong cold wind. Many groups are turned back,  not reaching to the top 100 meters away. But our team fought till the end, for which Mont Blanc gave us the top, though in the fog)))

Andrey Berezin, head guide of 7 summits Club in the Elbrus region:

Everyone, Hello! The group "Pretty snails", August 11^th, climbed to the Western summit of Elbrus. Congratulate us!

The command of the second expedition of 7 summits Club climbed the Lenin Peak. Participants: Vladimir Belkovich, Alexander Utvenko, Alexander Sobolenko, Natalia Matusova and their guide Alexander Abramov. See the photos...

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August 6th,  representatives of the 7 Summits Club Dmitry Khodak and NadejdaUsovich in the group company Aksay successfully climbed to the top of Lenin Peak. Congratulations! Season at Lenin Peak continues. Interest in this mountain this year has increased. With excellent service, our company  has this year almost one hundred percent success.

Kilimanjaro from a plane. Very rare and successful shots. The crater is seen directly in the palm of your hand. Three volcanic cones of different ages are clearly visible. And how little ice is left!

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Group Jan+Anton successfully climbed to the summit of Aiguille du Midi via the ridge  Cosmique. Rehearsal went quite smoothly. Although the route was in difficult comditions, the entire ridge had to go with crampons.

Members of the group of Mountain school of the 7 Summits Club, traveling on the program "Climb Mont Blanc", climbed to the hut Tete Rousse.

Sergey Larin, guide of 7 summits Club:

Kilimanjaro. The sixth day. 7 Aug. Go to the camp to Barafu (4680 m). Despite three nights in the height of 4000 meters, the part of the participants was not feeling very well.

Kilimanjaro. On the seventh day. 8 Aug. Went out at 12 at night. At 8 am we were  on the summit, almost all. Except  Vlad 11 years old and Nikita is 12 years old. I stopped them  at 5300. I decided to keep young growing organisms for the next ascents in future.

The group descends into the Millennium camp at 3,000 meters...

Andrey Berezin, head guide of 7 summits Club in the Elbrus region: New group on the Elbrus called himself  as a "Pretty snails". We went to Mount Cheget. Snails went and happy.

- Have you beautiful Girls?

- Yes.

- Give me two!

Group of  the Mountain school of the 7 Summits Club began preparations for the ascent of Mont Blanc with lessons in the "rock lab."

And the couple Iana and Anton (the wedding was August 5) plan to climb the Matterhorn. The preparation for this ascent they began with acclimatization ascent to the Brevent... the Weather was favorable, this season has not been such one...

Iana and Anton met and became friends at training sessions of the Mountain school of the  7 Summits Club!

Hello! Abramov Alexander informs  directly from the summit  of Lenin peak. Second team of the 7 Summits Club climbed to the top. It  is Belkovich Vladimir, Sasha Utvenko, Sasha Sobolenko, Natasha Matusova and their guide Abramov Alexander. So.... Perfect weather, visibility, in fact, "thousand upon thousand", almost no wind. We're very, very lucky...

We spent two extra nights in the high camps. But we were lucky to catch the weather. Well done! Yay! Our epic peak Lenin for this year is over. I hope to come down alive and well at base camp. Bye!

Group of the 7 Summits Club worked on the program "Climbing  Mont Blanc" at 29.07 - 05.08. 2017. After a course of training and acclimatization, the team made a summit attempt on the highest mountain of the Alps. Unfortunately, the weather on the summit day was bad. Cold, wind and lack of visibility. But the team fought until the end. Outcome: 5 participants - on the top, 4 participants stopped at the hut Vallo. All successfully descended down and flew to Moscow.

Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Lenin peak. Yesterday there was very bad weather, the 4th of August. It was snowing hard,  it was a furious wind. Today the wind calms down, the weather is good, no clouds. Today, our team moved to the third camp, the upper camp at 6100 meters on top of the peak Razdelnaya. And then our team tomorrow, even tonight is going to go on a summit bid. We are promised very good weather, no wind. There are about 40 people who are going to go tonight. So I hope that we will succeed, all will be well. Everybody, bye!

Alexander Dorozhkov, guide of the 7 Summits Club: Team Blitz made the ascent to the summit of Mount Elbrus. Although Anna was a little sick we all came out wonderfully!

Andrey Berezin, guide of the 7 Summits Club on Elbrus: a group called "Русских.net" today climbed the West  summit of Elbrus.

Hello! Here is a guide of 7 Summits Club Vladimir Kotlyar..... Behind me is the Brazilian team of  the 7 Summits Club. We summited  Mount Elbrus (5 Brazilians, including a blind man). And I close this season... to relax before coming season in the Himalayas...

Olga Rumyantseva, guide of the 7 summits Club:  news about our trekking "To the heart of Tien Shan". In 10 days our team went about 100 kms in the mountains of Tien Shan. We crossed rivers by wading, crawling through the moraine and walked the glaciers. And 12 people climbed to the top of the Peak named “Songs of Abay” – 4901 meters high. Today the entire group miraculously flew into civilization. Then the weather in the region was over...

Just called Alexander Abramov from the camp 1 (4400) at the peak of Lenin. All six participants of the second group feel great and ready to start tomorrow to climb to camp 2. And then they will go to the peak Razdelnaya, to camp 3 and then to the summit. However, at the moment, there is heavy snow. If until the morning  it does not stop, the outing will have to postpone for one day. Then the assault will occur on 6 August...

The group "Fathers and sons" starts the program on Kilimanjaro. I could not  remember whether it was the same name before, but now it correctly reflects the composition of the participants. In the group there are four children from 11 to 15 years...

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of  the 7 summits Club.

Today is the second acclimatization and training day for two our international groups on the Elbrus - directly on the slopes of this big mountain. We are working at a height of 4100,  near the refuge of the Eleven, learn to right way of falling, how to slow down using the ice axe.