All news: July 2018

Yesterday, a group of the 7 Summits Club climbed to the top of Kazbek. There was a strong wind and generally difficult weather conditions. However, five members of our group were able to overcome all obstacles and reach the top. Many thanks to our Georgian friends, local guides, who did everything for the success of the expedition! 

Permanent members of the 7 Summits Club programs Anna and Alexey Shpaks successfully completed the program of accelerated ascent (Blitz) and climbed the highest peak of the Alps - Mont Blanc.  Congratulations! The 7 Summits Club wishes to Anna and Alex new adventures and new achievements!

Lyudmila Korobeshko, guide and Director of the 7 Summits Club:

 July 11th. Greetings from the group "20 Abramovs and Co" from a height of almost 4000m on the slopes of Elbrus! Today we went up to the refuge and walked in a day just above the Diesel Hut. Snow-ice training was a great success! We liked to ride on the back, especially to children and youth, of which we have half a group.  Tomorrow according to the plan we go to Pastukhov Rocks. But today we have to survive the first night at an altitude of 3900. It's a new experience for all the band members. We hope to live till morning;)

Today as guides worked Lyudmila Korobeshko and Dmitry Ermakov.

 Today, July 12th rows of the group "20 Abramovs" is slightly thinned. Only “the true” Abramovs are left. The reduced team went to the top of the rocks of Pastukhov.  A 14-year-old  girl Eugenia Abramova was the best of all. Tomorrow we will rest. Weather's bad. We wait and hope for the best conditions…

Andrey Berezin, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Elbrus:

 Group Kosciuszko today made acclimatization roration to the rocks of Pastukhov, clear weather gave us the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful views of the Caucasus mountains.

On the way we met malamute Best, who was ready to take part in a photo shoot for a delicious sandwich…

The message of a guide of the 7 Summits Club from France:

Today, while you still waking up, and someone went to work or had breakfast, Eugene and Jeanne, participants in the program Blitz, already stood on top of Mont Blanc!!!

 Congratulations!

Karina Mezova, guide of the 7 Summits Club:

 Yesterday our team made an acclimatization rotation to the rocks of Lenz. Today we are resting until lunch.  And in the afternoon we plan to get up with a tent and spend the night on the lower rocks of Lenz. Exit to the summit assault will be at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Andrey Berezin, guide of the 7 Summits Club:

After a few days of bad weather it came a day favorable for climbing. Taking advantage of the reserve day, a group of Shamans reached the top of Elbrus…

 Alexander Abramov, President of the 7 Summits Club, main guide of a group “Chicago”:

 Today, July 7, the whole team of Chicago and all guides climbed to the top of Elbrus. The weather was very strange. There are a strong wind and snow, then the sun. The team proved to be excellent.

The message of a guide of the 7 Summits Club:

Today for acclimatization, we climbed with Eugene and Janna at the route Arête des Cosmiques (Aiguille du MIDI). This is one of the most popular ridge routes in the Mont Blanc massif!!! Climbing with crampons on rocks is another activity, especially when you do it for the first time. But our friends managed it with  great success!!! Good job!!! And tomorrow- on Gouter and then to the summit!!!

Alexander Abramov, a guide and President of the company 7 Summits Club from Elbrus:

July 3rd. Today, the Chicago team went up to the shelter. We had a great snow training. Everyone was writhing in the snow and rejoicing like children.

Tonight we had a screening of our Everest film “Gen of Altitude” 1 series. Tomorrow we will watch the second part.

 Now it's raining. The exit to the summit is postponed.

The 4th of July.

In the morning: storm and snow with rain. After a very warm week, during which snow was actively melting on Elbrus, there was a stormy wind and heavy rain tonight. The Baksan river came out of the banks. The disaster washed away several bridges in the gorge and several sections of the road, which were restored only last autumn after the mudflow, damaged the power support. Now the valley is cut off from electricity and probably transport does not go. We're sitting at a shelter at 3800. We can't go down. We hope that over the next 2 days the infrastructure of the valley will be restored.

Andrey Berezin, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Elbrus:

A group of Shamans made a rotation exit to the Pastukhov Rocks today. As we climbed the weather did not change for the better.  At Pastukhov Rocks we were already up in down suits. It's the month of July, and somewhere there is  +40!

 On the rocks of Pastukhov we took a joint photo with a group led by Alexander Abramov. This group is named "Chicago". And on the way back we had a mini ecological action to collect waste, which melting on Elbrus.

Guide of the 7 Summits Club reports from Chamonix:

Yesterday we climbed Le Toule in order to acclimatize before Mont Blanc. In the course of action, we have fixed and worked out the theoretical part of the movement of the glacier, self-arrest, correct leg positioning during movement in crampons and other nuances... Today is a day of rest, and tomorrow we will move to Gouter refuge, from where we will try to climb Mont Blanc!