All news: 16 January 2026

The 7 Summits Club Super Guide Artem Rostovtsev from Antarctica:

Hello, Seven Summits! Everything is calm in Antarctica, no fuss. The weather near Sidley Volcano is still consistently bad for flying; the humid ocean air is bringing thick clouds. Yesterday, most of the group flew to the South Pole, where they ran around the Earth's axis several times — an experience of a lifetime. The rest watched the arrival of a Russian IL-76 (Ilyushin) cargo plane. Now everyone is back at base, waiting for the weather to improve. We have faith, we're holding on, and we're not relaxing. There are still some areas we haven't visited yet. We don't plan on getting bored until our flight to Sidley.

Today, our entire group finally reassembled in Quito! Yesterday, those who arrived early managed to stroll through Ecuador's largest city park, the Metropolitano Park, visit the house-museum of artist and sculptor Oswaldo Guayasamin, and stroll through the historic center.

This morning, the entire group set off for the equator. We were so successful in the competitions that almost everyone received a diploma as "Egg Masters" (or, more accurately, egg-laying experts, or rather, experts in placing eggs on nails). So our group is now called "Egg Masters."

Next, at the official equator line, we climbed to the very top of the main tower without a lift (for acclimatization). After a wonderful lunch at a restaurant at the foot of the Virgin Mary statue on Panecillo Hill, we took the cable car up the slope of Rucu Pichincha to almost 4200m.

Today we're going to bed early, as tomorrow morning we'll face our first serious ascent: Guagua Pichincha (4800m).

Egg Masters and Super-Egg Master Lyudmila Korobeshko with Egg Apprentice Alexander Spirin.

The 7 Summits Club guide Alexey Lonchinsky reports from Chile:

Good day! The 7 Summits Club "Seven" group has arrived at Laguna Verde. Today, we saw stunning clouds along the way!!! We finally saw Ojos del Salado. We settled in and walked to the hot springs.

This is the "Incas on the Trail" group. Today, we finally waited for the weather to clear and reached the Nido de Condores camp. After acclimatizing, we moved faster, despite the wind. We reached the summit faster than last time. We had a delicious dinner in the evening. Then we went to watch the sunset. Tomorrow morning, we leave for Camp Berlin. With you were 7 Summits Club guides Leuan Atabiev, Sergey Avtomonov, and Valery Myasoedov.

The 7 Summits Club super guide Olya Rumyantseva sends from Chile:

Greetings to everyone from the foot of Ojos del Salado volcano from the "Blazing Height" group. Today we woke up at Santa Rosa Camp at an altitude of 3,800 meters. After breakfast, we followed the plan to drive up and climb one of the peaks of Mount Seven Brothers, at 4,870 meters.

We had a great walk and saw beautiful views. We were lucky with the weather; there was no wind at all, so we sat at the summit for an hour, breathing in the thin air. After descending the mountain to our camp, we had lunch and decided to move to the Laguna Verde camp, where the views were more picturesque.

Along the way, we saw Ojos. We settled into camp, walked around, and admired the beautiful lake and flamingos.