7 SuperMountains

At one time, the 7 Summits Club identified the "Seven Super-Mountains" in the World.  Seven unique climbing sites on seven continents.  Alpamayo is one of such objects, a mountain of amazing beauty. The 7 Summits Club has repeatedly arranged ascents on this wonderful peak. And we are ready to repeat this experience with new climbers.

In May, a group of the 7 Summits Club  held a mountaineering trip in the mountainous areas of the United States. Under the guidance of Alexander Lastochkin and Boris Egorov, the participants completed all training and climbing plans, and even more.  They learned a new special technique of rock climbing through the cracks, visited two mountain areas in Utah and Wyoming. As a result, the team climbed three towers: Fisher Tower, Castleton Tower and Devils Tower. 

Member of the trip Eugene Lesnitsky prepared a film about the adventures on the rocks of the United States in his traditional style:

Boris Yegorov from USA: Hello, dears! Here are guides Lastochkin and Yegorov from America. Our adventures ended. We have fulfilled the whole plan of training and climbing, and even more. We trained our team members in new special climbing cracks techniques and visited two mountain areas in Utah and Wyoming. The team climbed three towers: Fisher Tower, Castleton Tower and Devils Tower. Everyone is very happy and returned home in a positive mood. Until next time!

Finally - some photos from the final day. We have specially allocated it for the filming of scenes for the future film.

Hello! There are guides Lastochkin and Egorov from America. Today we climbed Devil's Tower! It was an incredible climbing, wonderful views from the route. But the most interesting thing is that, despite the difficulty of the route, one of the members was always in the lead. And I with Alexander, we only belayed and admired the scenery. Everything turned out on time and very positive!

The team with guides Alexander Lastochkin and Boris Egorov is now in Wyoming. Today, climbers conducted the first training on the rocks of the Devil's tower.  It is an incredible basalt mountain that appeared as if from nowhere in the middle of the plains. Now we have to learn to climb the multifaceted columns of the mountain. For a new type of rocks need a new technique and the right equipment…

Boris Yegorov, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from USA:

Hello, dears!  Today we made the final ascent in Utah. We climbed the Castleton Tower, it's symbol of the region. Very beautiful freestanding rock tower, among other things, she is often glimpsed in American westerns. Climbing was quite interesting, a lot of different caliber cracks and chimneys. And very cool feeling on the top, 360 degree view! Tomorrow is our last day in Moab, and the plan is to go rafting on the Colorado river.

Hello dears! There are guides Lastochkin and Yegorov from the United States. We and  guys climbed hard route to the Fisher tower. We were surrounded by alien landscapes. We had a special plan for this ascent: we changed roles with members. They were in the lead on the climb, and there, by the way, climbing 6b with our belay points (friends, bookmarks, etc.), and on the descent they were also leaders. Everything turned out just fine! All coped on 5 points. In addition to difficult climbing, a separate adventure was the exit to the top, not difficult physically, but very difficult psychologically. Here it is necessary to control yourself really well and they coped with this task.

Hello, 7 Summits! Guides Lastochkin and Yegorov report from the States. Today we spent the second day on the rocks. Our friends climbed already quite difficult and long  routes, 5.10 category. That's just it can not be compared with our usual scale for determining the difficulty of climbing. Crack 5.10 - this is not 6A as we are used to, but simply a completely different phenomenon on the rocks. For two days we had been rubbing the skin on the back of the palms, and there was a slight fatigue. Tomorrow we plan an active day of rest, we will go to trekking to look at the famous Sandstone arches.

 On March 19th, 2019, a group of 7 Summits Club, guide Boris Yegorov and three  members, climbed the second highest summit of the Kenya massif, Nelion peak, with a height of 5188 meters. To the highest point, the peak of Batian (5199m), it was decided not to go, not to get to the "cold overnight".  Simply, there was not enough day time.  Now the group safely descended to the foot of the summit and Boris Yegorov sent a large selection of photos from the ascent. 

Super-Guide of  the 7 Summits Club Boris Yegorov by satellite phone from Africa:

Hello, Seven Summits! This is guide Boris Yegorov from Kenya, Africa. Today we climbed to the peak of Nelion... To the top of Batian we lacked a little bit of time (we expect details)…

 Super-Guide of the  7 Summits Club  Boris Yegorov  via satellite phone from Equatorial Africa:

 Hello, Seven  Summits! This is guide Boris Egorov from Kenya. Today, we,  without hurry, but at the same time quickly enough, went to the point of Lenana – this is the third highest peak in the Kenya massif. We passed the route in two and a half hours, which, in пeneral, is not bad. And we went down to  our assault camp - Austrian hut. And then suddenly a cloud with snow covered us. Snow fell, the mountain turned white.  So we turned relaxed and decided to have a rest tomorrow.  We have  for a rest one more day in a stock. And while, we plan to storm the day after tomorrow. All, of course, slightly upset. But…

Boris Yegorov, guide of 7 Summits Club from Kenya:

Good evening! Today I had a difficult day in Africa. Basically it went like this:

…  waiting for the participants of the expedition, and ended with the following…

We gathered in a very remarkable restaurant where you can taste the meat of wild animals.

 I liked the team gathered to climb Batian Peak (Kenya massif). Old friends were happy to meet.  Today we have a rest, and tomorrow in plans  there is moving to the National Park and small passes on jungle: 9 kilometers and 600 meters of a climb.

Tomorrow the program of ascent to Batian peak (5199 m) will begin.  This program is part of the project of our Club "7 Super Mountains"!  This project includes programs of climbing the iconic mountains from different continents (Matterhorn, Alpamayo etc…).

 Program guide Boris Yegorov is already in Kenya! He successfully passed acclimatization, climbing to the top of  Point Lenana (4985 m), the third highest peak of the Kenya massif. He has now returned to Nairobi to meet the participants of the programme tomorrow.

  Irena Kharazova, famous for her diaries from the expedition to Everest and became the brightest heroine of the film "Gene of Heights", returns with a new project.  After successfully completing the project "Seven Summits" and giving birth the child, as promised in the film,  Irena for some time disappeared from our field of vision. But now she appeared again and comes out with a new bright project – "Seven Super Mounts". Six months ago Irena made a successful ascent to the most beautiful peak of the world - Alpamayo in Peru.

  And now she goes to Kenya to make a difficult technical ascent to the most difficult peak of Africa - Kenya 5200 (peaks Nelion and Batian). Date of trip March 14-21. You can also join a support group and make a simpler ascent in the Kenya massif - to the top of Lenana 4895 at a special price.

On May 8, Alexey Sivkov and Evgeny Lesnitsky, long-time friends of the 7  Summits Club, under the guidance of two instructors, successfully completed an incredible ascent to El Capitan by famous route "Nose".  

The climb took 3 days, including 2 nights on the wall and one night on the top of El Capitan.

January 7, 2018 a team of the 7 Summits Club  under the guidance of guide Alexei Lonchinsky successfully climbed to the highest peak of New Zealand's famous Mount Cook.

The team successfully took advantage of a weather window and advices of new Zealand guides.

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.

Alex Lonchinsky, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Nepal:

Greetings from climbers on Ama Dablam! Today we went down from acclimatization rotation. We climbed to camp 2 (6100) and spent two nights in camp 1 (5800). Mikhail and Vadim coped normally with mountain adaptation. Now we went down to Pangboche (4000), where we plan to rest…

 Now, according to the forecast and feelings, the bad weather is coming.  When the favorable forecast will be clear, we will plan to start for summit climb.

Alex Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club:

Hello! The Ama Dablam group has reached the village of Pengboche.  And this morning we went to the base camp of Ama Dablam. The mood is good, we gradually acclimatize. Tomorrow we plan to start the next rotation stage the exit to the second camp, with three nights.

Alex Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club:

Hello! Yesterday we flew to Lukla, waited for the cargo, loaded on yaks. In honor of the birthday of the 7 Summits Club, slowly, for 3 hours, we reached Monjo. We stayed at the hospitable Monjo Gasthaus. We were welcomed, as it is here Sasha Gukov and I lived when I went to climb Mount Tamserku.

 Today we are already in Namche Bazaar, we continue to celebrate the birthday of 7 Summits Club!