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A guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from Khibiny:

News from the group "Room of Culture". We have made a qualifying ascent of 1B difficulty category to the summit of Otkol! The entire team, in full force, having overcome all the technical difficulties of the route, reached the summit! The weather was good, there was no wind, visibility was good.

Today, the branch of NP 1 of the Mountaineering School of the 7 Summits Club in Tuyuk-Su set out at dawn to climb Peak Oktyabryonok, 2A difficulty category. And then stood at the top in full force! All participants felt good and are eager to fight again. Tomorrow is a rest day according to the plan. Guides Alexey Lonchinsky and Viktor Volodin.

Good day to all from the mountaineering school of Tuyuk-Su! Today we had another day of rock training. The program included: working in ropes and descending along a fixed rope. The day turned out to be productive. After lunch, everyone got busy preparing for tomorrow's training ascent. Guides Alexey Lonchinsky and Viktor Volodin.

On the flip calendar, October 31. And a big hello to everyone from the Tuyuk-SU Mountaineering School! Today, everyone in a cheerful and friendly company again held rock classes and consolidated the material covered. Everyone is happy and satisfied. In the evening, we held a review of the classes and classes on maintaining documentation and preparing route sheets. With you were the 7 Summits Club guides Viktor Volodin, Ratmir Mukhametzyanov and Alexey Lonchinsky. See you in the mountains!

The 7 Summits Club Guide Viktor Volodin sends from Kazakhstan:

Big hello to everyone from the Tuyuk-SU alpine camp! News from 7 Summits Club guides Viktor Volodin, Alexey Lonchinsky and Ratmir Mukhametzyanov. Today, the basic training mountain school program started. In the morning, we met all the participants, the group gathered in full force. Having settled into comfortable buses and jeeps, we got to the camp, where we were greeted warmly and hospitably. After settling in, we had a delicious lunch, and in the evening, in a friendly and wonderful company, we celebrated the birthday of a wonderful person, Ratmir. Everything went very well.

 Good afternoon! The Iskorka group made a technically difficult ascent to the peak of Amangeldy!!! We climbed in conditions of limited visibility, we were accompanied by light precipitation, the wind was light gusts. In general, the weather is quite bearable. We were able to apply the skills acquired in rock classes and cope with the ascent perfectly! Beautiful and safe mountains to everyone!!!

Instructors Viktor Volodin and Alexey Lonchinsky.

Good afternoon! Today Team Iskorka together with guides Viktor Volodin and Alexey Lonchinsky made a very fruitful acclimatization hike. The start took place in the dark and we returned to the base also in the dark. We managed to perfectly inspect the area and all approaches to the routes we were interested in! Tomorrow is a day of rest and preparation for the summit climb!

Greetings from Kazakhstan! The 7 Summits Club "Iskorka" group arrived at Chimbulak yesterday and settled into comfortable rooms. Today we made an acclimatization hike to the Tuyuk-su alpine camp. There we got the necessary equipment, and then held classes on the rocks. We remembered how to ascend and descend on a fixed rope! The weather was great, but the snow that fell the day before had to be trampled...

Guides-instructors Viktor Volodin and Alexey Lonchinsky.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Ratmir Mukhametzyanov reports from Kazakhstan:

 We have run out of training camps in Tuyuk-Su, the members of the NP-2 group have completed their program!  We made 4 ascents from 1B to 3A of the difficulty category. The participants of the gathering studied and practiced, walked and climbed, jumared and dulfered. There were a lot of lectures, practical classes, evening gatherings, after climbing, they did an analysis of mistakes.

The cherry on the cake was climbing the route 3A of the difficulty category with an instructor as a leader, so that students could observe the work of a professional on the wall from the side. Although before that they climbed, collected stations, oriented themselves and interacted with each other independently.  We have learned a lot, but there is still a long way to improve.

I was very happy to work with such motivated students!

Our team is trying to grasp the last days of the training camp and absorb the maximum amount of experience from the instructors. Today, the NP-2 group went to the peak of Octebrenok on route 3A. The key sections were led by the coach, the guide of the group Ratmir Mukhametzyanov, and the students absorbed the experience and watched carefully. Such a scheme of training ascents allows junior dischargers to clearly see how professionals work.

The group "The Devil's Dozen" today successfully conducted classes on belay points and stations on the rocky terrain. We learned how to use friends, got acquainted with nuts, and tried to place pitons. There is no destruction - all the rocks remained intact. After lunch, we held lectures and debriefings. Tomorrow, according to the plan, climbing and working out what has already been studied. Guides Nikita Slotin and Alexey Lonchinsky.

News of the mountaineering  school in Tuyuk-Su. Congratulations to the team "Fossil Hibinoids" on the first ascent of Amangeldy Peak on route 1B!

Today we went to Amangeldy Peak (3999m) on route 1B, from the West. We got up at 5 in the morning, went out at 6. We were at the top about 13 o'clock.  The ascent went according to plan. There were mistakes, but this is training, otherwise there is no way. It's even good when mistakes are made under the supervision of instructors who will help fix everything.

After returning to the camp, we conducted an analysis of the ascent and went to the sauna. Tomorrow is a rest day and some rockclimbing lessons.

Guides: Alexey Lonchinsky and Ratmir Mukhametzyanov.

Hello, dear mountain lovers! Greetings from Kazakhstan! The first group arrived in the camp!

Ratmir and Alexey are very glad to see their students of the Khibiny collection again!!!  The flight to Kazakhstan from Moscow took 4 hours and 30 minutes of pure time. The main part of the group took off at 20:50 and at 6 o'clock, having passed customs, left the airport for Almaty. The time difference is 3 hours, so there is a jetlag. One hour of travel and we settle in the camp.

We rested before lunch, then had a snack in an excellent dining room and went for a walk to the weather station Mynzhilki 3100m.  The weather was cloudy, there was rain in places. But the main task, the beginning of adaptation to the highlands, has begun.

After dinner, according to the covenant and the instructions of the sister-mistress Didasha, the members  took readings of pulse, pressure and oxygenation. Everything is fine, we are working according to plan.

The guides: Alexey Lonchinsky and Ratmir Mukhametzyanov.

Kristina Putintseva, guide and manager of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Bezengi:

Namaste from Super Sherpa team! Today, a solemn presentation of certificates and documents on the successful completion of courses for our Nepalese friends took place. Now there are real Sherpas in the ranks of Russian climbers!  The whole camp saw them off on a long journey, hugged, said parting words…

We hope that international cooperation will grow stronger!

Kristina Putintseva, guide and manager of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Bezengi:

Greetings to all from Bezengi! If the weather "does not whisper", or even whispers "stay at home", then we just change the location, but do not change our plans. The sky has been accumulating rains for a long time, and we are the forces, so our rescue competitions were moved from the rock massif to the room.

Although from the outside it looked more like a web, in fact, there is nothing superfluous in the system. In a team, each participant knows their functions, actions become coordinated, fast and clear. Super Sherpa Team and Kristina Putintseva.

Kristina Putintseva, the guide and manager of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Bezengi:

We send everyone our hot "greetings" from Bezengi! Today we carried each other in our arms. In the literal sense of these words. We are talking about the technique and tactics of rescue operations. This is the topic of our last two days of work. Our Sherpa friends work seriously and responsibly manner. They are doing well.

Kristina Putintseva, guide and manager of the 7 Summits Club, reports from Bezengi:

Hello to everyone from our Super Sherpa Team! Today we spent a wonderful day on the rocks.

We recall long-studied material, learn new things and learn to teach. After all, in our work it is important not only to have knowledge, but also to consistently present the studied material.

Our friendly international team use three languages: Russian, Nepali and English. This makes our classes even more interesting. 

Super-guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexey Lonchinsky reports from the Elbrus region:

A mountain school - training courses for climbing Mount Everest, Denali and Antarctica has completed its work in the Elbrus region. We were able to go autonomously with all the necessary equipment and provisions for 5 days to the area of Lake Elbrus, get up to a safe bivouac. We conducted classes on the basic principles of safe movement on ice and snow terrain, how to properly use a field kitchen and cook! For the first time, they were able to go up from the lake to the Mir station and then settle in the houses of the National Park shelter. The next day, we made an acclimatization rotation to 4600 (Pastukhov Rocks).

The weather in the region was unstable, the ascent had to be abandoned. The window for a safe ascent will only be in a few days. We went down. Unfortunately, we were met with rain and sleet...

We hope that next year there will be lower temperatures and more snow! Guides Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

Alexander, guide of 7 summits Club from Austria:

We have completed our ice climbing training session in Tyrol. We climbed over large ice cascade near  the small Stillebach village.

Alexander, a guide of The 7 Summits Club from Austria: Today, it was a day full of new knowledge, we tried a lot, worked out the basics of mountaineering, balay, climbing and descent on a fixed rope. After classes, we stormed several icicles in the Pitztal valley. Tomorrow we go to storm one of the biggest frozen waterfalls in the area, it's 6 pitches of ice.