All news: December 2018

 Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

 Hello dears!!!! For two days we have accumulated a lot of photos and emotions!!! Group  is worthy of overcoming difficulties and gaining kilometers in height! Separately I want to note our girls!!!! They are beautiful and not inferior to men!

Why should you go to Elbrus with the 7 Summits Club? The answer is simple. Because we take special care of our climbers. Here is proof: on Elbrus we place climbers at the most convenient in all respects shelter.  Where they care about the guests and value their opinion about the quality of work.  Here for the convenience of climbers at the shelter we have installed a relay tower. Now all our shelter is provided with reliable communication. For phones  and Internet!!  

And hurry up to join our groups on Elbrus. More than 50% of the places in the summer groups have already been sold.

Watch programs and sign up!

We, the 7 Summits Club, are saying  good-bye  to our guide Artem Rostovtsev for Antarctica. First he will lead a group to the South Pole on skis, then climb with them on Vinson, and then on bicycles again to get to the South Pole.  The leaders of the race Crimea x Run came to see Artem off!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Good morning , 7 Summits!!! Our “Gypsy camp” and finally got to the mountains! Yesterday we came to the village of Penitentes, checked equipment, handed over the bags and boxes with provisions for loading on the mules, and then went for a walk in the surrounding hills. We went to a height of 3000 meters, it was a nice walk. Today we go further, and for couple of days we will be off-line . All, for a while!

On November 9, 2018, the team of the 7 Summiys Club made a successful ascent to the top of the Carstensz Pyramid, the highest peak of the Australian continent.

  List of climbers: Yuri Gurgov, Alexander Logachev, Alexander Popov, Kirill Semeshkin,

Vladimir Belkovich.  Head and guide Artem Rostovtsev. All the participants and the guide had climbed Everest together earlier this year.

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina: Hello, 7 summits! Finally, the preparation for the season is over and the first group flew to us in Mendoza.   The group consists of eleven members and there's four muses, four fairies of  Aconcagua!!! Luda, Zhenya, Nastya, Sasha! Men, too, as the selection - a miracle heroes!!! Well, we will hope for the weather, because such a stellar team  is simply obliged to climb to the top! Let's hope that the mountain going to let us up!!!!

Alexander Abramov and Artem Rostovtsev today made an unforgettable trip to Oslo in preparation for the expedition to Antarctica. Besides the fact that we bought skis and boots for skiing in Antarctica to the South Pole, we also visited several unique museums. This is the Museum of Kon-Tiki and Ra ships, in which Thor Heyerdahl's crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is Museum of Arctic and Antarctic discoveries, with the ship FRAM which was built by Nansen.  It was the ship that Amundsen sailed to Antarctica to conquer the South Pole. In General, shopping turned out to be very useful from a cognitive point of view.

Boris Yegorov,  a guide of the 7 Summits Club:

In preparation for the unique expedition to mount Fitzroy (Patagonia), which will take place in January next year, we organized a training session on the warm cliffs of Turkey. Turkey is unique place for autumn climbing, the season is here is in full swing, a variety of lasagna, 5 crops of oranges per year, grenades are falling from the trees right in the hands, good food and warm sea!

The participants discovered that rock climbing is not only within mountaineering, but it is interesting as an independent activity. We did not have much time, but an intensive schedule. We managed to go multi-pitch to remember the feeling of height, and tighten the level of climbing so that in the end it turned out to climb 6C category of difficulty, and this is not a beginner level! In General, we are ready for Patagonia.

5th of December Nikolai Cherny marks 80 years!  The 7 Summits Club congratulates him as a close friend, guide and member of our expeditions. Thank you for your participation in our formation, for your kindness, for the wisdom that we are trying to learn from you!

 We wish You health and new mountains !

A team of our Aconcagua Guides have completed their work in Santiago and are moving to Argentina.  The group was divided into two parts: Ershovs and Berezin go by bus straight to Mendoza. Kotlyar and David go by lorry with camp equipment in Penitentes. All things from a depot was dismantled, purchased a generator for lighting the camp. This season we will organize a special "Russian camp" for several consecutive groups of  the 7 Summits Club. 

Lyudmila Korobeshko, Director of the 7 Summits Club: we returned to Cape town from an Antarctic weekend with a lot of impressions.  We visited the land Of Queen Maud and saw the majestic mountain Ulvetanna.  We visited the real polar explorers from the Russian station Novolazarevskaya and steamed in a real sauna in Antarctica.

And most importantly, we said farewell a team of TRANS-Antarctic rally.

Today, December 1, at the Gala evening of the Russian Federation of Mountaineering were summed up the final results of the season of climbing Everest 2018. Honorary signs "Climber on Everest" were awarded to climbers who for the first time (for themselves) climbed the highest peak of the World, the heroes of this year! Congratulations! 

List of climbers on Everest 2018

15-05-18

Dmitry Klimchuk

Oleg Mezentsev

17-05-18

Aleksadr Logachev

Vladimir Belkovich

Dmitry Tertychny (17 years old)

Alexander Tertychny

Dmitry Tomilin

Cyril Semechkin

Alexander Popov

Alexey Balakin

Alexander Abramov (9th times)

18-05-18

Vasily Shakhnovsky

Alexey Safonov

Karina Mezova (2nd.)

Irina Zelenkova

Vladimir Kotlyar (2nd)

Artem Rostovtsev.

Igor Markevich

Vyacheslav Kochubey.

19-05-18

Dmitry Ermakov (2^rd.)

Andrei Mariev (2nd.)

Maxim Shakirov (3rd.)

Ksenia Samarina

Yuri Gurgov

Alexey Bakulin

Ayrat Yunusov

Zemfira Yunusova

Igor Demyanenko (2nd vosh)

Jamil Murtazina.

from the South

23-05-18

Anatoly Mensky.

Lyudmila Korobeshko: we load and fly to Antarctica in an hour. We accompany our friends to a cool, unprecedented expedition.

Expedition "Antarctica. 200 years of discoveries". The first Autonomous (!) automobile TRANS-Antarctic expedition. It is:

- 7 participants;

- 2 all-terrain vehicles on wheels of his own invention (author-Vasily Yelagin);

- 6000 km - the proposed route includes a visit to 5 polar stations (Novolazarevskaya, Pole of Inaccessibility, South Pole, Vostok, Progress);

- 4 tons of fuel ;

- 1.5 months on the way.

And many, many kilometers of film footage about the expedition.

Participants:

Group of drivers-mechanics:

- Vasily Yelagin;

- Alexey Makarov;

- Vladimir Obikhod.

Movie Crew:

- Valdis Pelsh;.

- Christina Kozlova;. 

- Alexander Kubasov;

- Denis Nehrebecki.

Good luck friends!

The first day we will support their personal presence in Antarctica!