7 Volcanoes for 70 Days

Chile sends greetings! The "Stop" team is in touch. Yesterday we returned from the city of Capiapo, where we spent the night and had a good rest. Today the group had the main acclimatization rotation. We climbed to an altitude of 6300 meters. The weather is good, the people are fine, everything is going according to plan. Tomorrow is a rest day, during which we will conduct classes with iron on mountaineering techniques. And at night we go to the mountain! The forecast promises good weather.

Guides Alexander Abramov and Alexander Dorojukov.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Chile:

Today the team "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days" climbed to the top of San Francisco, height 6016 m. As an acclimatization for Ojos del Salado. There was a crazy wind. According to the forecast, tomorrow it will be even stronger. But we have a day of rest planned.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Chile:

The "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days" team had a rest day today. We went to the San Francisco Pass at 4700 m. We saw herds of guanacos. We bathed in hot springs. The day was a success. Tomorrow we climb the San Francisco summit at 6016 m. The team feels great!

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Dorojukov reports from Chile:

Chile is in touch! According to the program, today we walked along the slopes of Ojos. Our captain joined us, now we have plus 50 to our speed. Today we climbed to the height of Elbrus. There was a light breeze and the sun was shining. We continue to work further.

 The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Chile:

Today was a great day. Acclimatization. The team climbed the slopes of Ojos to the height of Elbrus - 5642 meters. We drove along beautiful and difficult roads. The wind was not strong. Tomorrow is a day of rest.

The President of the 7 Summits Club, Alexander Abramov, reports from Chile:

 The "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days" team flew from Santiago to the city of Copiapo on the Pacific coast. Here we did some shopping for the camp, absolutely necessary things: two sofas for the dining room, a green carpet "Grass" and many different useful things. And then we went through the beautiful Atacama Desert. On the way, we stopped to look at the ancient copper mines. See the photos. And we stopped at Laguna Rosa, where there are a lot of flamingos. We are going further, to the base camp Laguna Verde at an altitude of 4300 meters. And on the way, we are filming the 6th episode of the film "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days", because Ojos del Salado is our 6th volcano in the record project. By the way, the weather is very windy so far. At the top it's 50-60 km per hour.

The team of the project "7 volcanoes in 70 days" consisting of Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh arrived in the capital of Chile, Santiago. The goal is the sixth peak of our record, the highest volcano in the world, Mount Ojos del Salado, located in the Atacama Desert. In the meantime, there was a little time to get acquainted with the capital city. To do this, as befits climbers, we climbed the highest point of the city, Mount San Cristobal, 850 meters high. Santiago, like all Latin American cities, amazes and pleases with its original architecture and bright colors.

Alexander Abramov. President of the 7 Summits Club:

Sensation! The project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" is dead! Long live the project "7 volcanoes in 70 days"!!! Having climbed Winter Elbrus, the team shortened the project. Now we are ready to climb 7 volcanoes in 70 days.

Already climbed:

- Damavand (Asia, Iran) - October 31;

- Kilimanjaro (Africa, Tanzania) - November 6;

- Orizaba (North America, Mexico) - November 13;

- Giluwe (Australia, Papua New Guinea) - November 21;

- Elbrus (Europe, Russia) - December 9.

Remaining to climb before January 7:

- Ojos del Salado (South America. Chile);

- Sidley - Antarctica.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the airport:

The team of the project "7 Volcanoes in 77 Days" flies to Chile. To climb the 6th volcano - Ojos del Salado. This is the highest volcano in the world at 6864 meters. Having shortened the project deadline by climbing Elbrus in winter, we renamed it "7 Volcanoes in 70 Days".

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

Good news from the Elbrus region. Elbrus is ours!

Today, December 9, Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko made a winter ascent of Elbrus as part of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days". But first, a sensation! The counter of the number of climbers fell from the top of Elbrus. Probably, from the new year they will install a new "zeroed" one.

This is the fifth mountain of our project. The ascent of Elbrus on October 24 was counted as a training one. Now the project 7 volcanoes - "who is faster" officially begins with the ascent of Damavand on October 31. It is realistic to do it in 70 days.

Oh! It will not be possible to run across Damavand, as our team of the 7 Summits Club starts climbing Ojos del Salado tomorrow. We need to fly to Chile urgently. This will be the sixth mountain of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days".

President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from the slopes of Elbrus:

The team has climbed to the refuge. At night, the summit will be stormed. The weather is not bad. It is minus 30 at the summit.

We reached Refuge of 11 for acclimatization. We met the record holder of Elbrus for the fastest ascent, Vitaly Shkel.

The 7 Summits Club President Alexander Abramov reports from the Moscow-Mineralnye Vody plane:

We're going to Winter Elbrus. The goal is to climb this mountain in order to shorten the project time. And on December 12 we fly to Chile to climb the 6th volcano - the highest volcano in the world Ojos del Salado. The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team had a good rest. We didn't go anywhere for 2 weeks. We sat at home. Time to go to the mountains!

The "7 Volcanoes in 77 Days" team is flying home from Papua New Guinea. For a two-week vacation. In the first 27 days, we went/ran to 5 volcanoes on 5 continents. We only slept on the planes. There are still 50 days and 2 mountains left until the end of the project: Ojos del Salado - the highest volcano in South America and Sidley in Antarctica. Today in Port Moresby we met a competing company. Borya and Artem, who want to beat our speed record on Giluwe tomorrow. Good luck, guys! Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gdadkikh.

 Many foreign guides have already congratulated us on the new world speed record. 5 volcanoes on 5 continents in 27 days! Thank you, friends!

 SENSATION!!! The 7 Volcanoes in 77 Days team decided to "re-climb" the first mountains: Elbrus, Damavand, Kilimanjaro.... To shorten the project time!

On November 21 at 13:00 local time, the team "7 volcanoes in 77 days" (Alex Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh) climbed to the top of the Giluwe volcano, the highest on the Australian continent. Alex Abramov reports:

We climbed from the road without an overnight stay in 8 hours. We started at 5 am and reached the top at 1 PM. Now we are going down and flying home tomorrow morning.

There is a fifth volcano in the project! Five volcanoes on five continents in 29 days. Ahead is the most difficult and most remote object: Ojos del Salado and Sidley. In the meantime, we can and should rest.

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov reports from Papua New Guinea:

 Today another adventure happened. We started the journey with porters through the jungle. Crawling under another tree, Ilya bumped his eye into an umbrella. And he immediately fell to the ground in convulsions. The eye was damaged. We turned around and quickly descended to Mount Hagen. At the Main Hospital, the best specialist in Papua New Guinea will examine him. Saving Ilya's eye is more important than the mountain!

The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team, consisting of Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh, has been flying from Mexico to Papua New Guinea for three days now. It is now the third night on the plane, and we spent the whole day in China. In Guangzhou. We visited the tent factory, which we are now buying for a new expedition to Everest.

The team of the 7 Summits Club of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" is now in Istanbul. On a transfer. We are flying straight to the 5th mountain of the project: Giluwe volcano in Papua New Guinea.

Only 24 days have passed since the beginning of the project (out of 77), and we have already climbed 4 peaks and are flying to the 5th.

There are several places in our groups for Antarctica to Vinson Massif - the highest mountain in Antarctica from the "Seven Summits" project and to Sidley Volcano - the highest volcano in Antarctica. Join now, who forgot or doubted!

The group "14 friends of Julio" with the guide Alexander Dorojukov and the group "7 volcanoes in 77 days", consisting of Alexander Abramov and videographer Ilya Gladkikh, have completed their Mexican program. Together they celebrated the victory, the successful ascent of Orizaba. The participants received well-deserved awards, honorary badges and certificates. Then again, all together they descended to the capital of the country, Mexico City, and are flying home.

At 7:45 am local time, our team gathered at the top of the highest volcano in North America. The 7 Summits Club group "14 Friends of Julio" climbed under the guidance of our guide Alexander Dorojukov. At the same time, the group of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" - Alexander Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh - reached the summit. We hope to get more information after the descent to the hotel. For Alexander Abramov, this is the fourth summit of the project "7 volcanoes in 77 days" (Elbrus, Damavand, Kilimanjaro) in 20 days. Ahead is Giluwe, on the Australian continent.

The "7 volcanoes in 77 days" team climbed to the assault camp of Orizaba peak 4700 meters.

Alex Abramov sends from Mexico:

Today our "7 Volcanoes in 77 Days" team (Alex Abramov and Ilya Gladkikh) ascends to Orizaba Base Camp. The Internet will probably be bad. In the meantime, a few photos and videos from the road.