Everest 2019

This year will be a record for virtual ascents to Mount Everest. Alas, the Big Mountain is closed to us. It’s good that there is no quarantine on the Internet. Here is an opportunity to return to the spring of 2019. Return and relive the excitement, tension and delight of the decisive days of the assault on Everest. The amazing girl Dolores Al Shellah was part of another expedition, but to a large extent joined the team of the 7 Summits  Club.

 In general, we are not strangers to her. Firstly, she is Serbian by mother. Secondly, in 2018, she ascended Mount Elbrus as part of the 7 Summit Club group.

 Dolores was always close to the members and guides of our expedition during the expedition on Everest. This can be seen in the frames of a highly professional film prepared by National Geographic Abu Dhabi. Actually the reason for this publication was the release of this film:

And a few more words about Dolores

This is she with dad and mom. Dad is a citizen of Jordan, mom is from Serbia.

Dolores grew up and was brought up in two cultures at once. The main place of residence is Amman, the capital of Jordan. Dolores spent all the summer months with her grandmother in Serbia. While studying for a year, she traveled to the United States. Dolores graduated from Petra University in Jordan with a degree in business administration. From childhood, she was a versatile athlete: athletics, swimming, equestrian sport. Then – rock climbing, mountaineering and traveling. After working a little in business, Dolores decided to become an adventure professional. And while she succeeds. In 2018, she signed a contract with the mighty Sustainable City organizations from Dubai and received the status of Ambassador Brand. That's where the money comes from for expeditions and trips. We hope that everything in the world will return to normal and we will meet with that charming girl more than once. In Antarctica, at the North Pole, near Aconcagua, Carstensz or elsewhere.

Video from Everest by Alex Abramov

Members of the Everest expedition of the 7 Summits Club  relax in a luxury hotel in Lhasa. Tomorrow morning, at 9-20 they are waiting for a plane to Chengdu and then home. 

Goodbye Tibet, goodbye Everest!

 Only after descent and a short rest the heroes of the Everest expedition of the 7 Summits Club were able to share photos taken on the mountain.

In total, 11 members of the 7 Summits Club team and two guides Alexander Abramov and Artem Rostovtsev reached the top of Mount Everest. With them, the highest point was reached by 15 Sherpas as high-altitude porters and guides.  So we have 28 PAX  made the ascent.

 May 23 at the top of Everest stood:

Alexander Abramov (for the 10th time),

Irina Zisman,

Dmitry Ghinkulov,

Arno Ter-Saakov (Latvia),

Andrew Polyakov,

Ivan Pominov, 

Bartolomiej Paczoski (Poland).

May 24 at the top of Everest stood:

Artem Rostovtsev,

Igor Smirnov,

Ludmila Tolstokorova,

Vadim Vokryachko (Azerbaijan) ,

Mircea Baciu (Moldova),

Eugene Staroselsky (Cyprus).

According to the information received: The first group of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Alex Abramov in the morning continued the descent and is now approaching the North Col. Artem Rostovtsev's group (second) successfully reached the top of Everest and started the descent.

Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the expedition:

The second team starts from the base camp towards the summit. We are promised good weather and fixed ropes to the top. We hope and believe.

 Standing: Igor Smirnov, Mircea Baciu, Vadim Vokriachko, Sergei Larin (will work in a camp on the North Col), Eugeny Staroselsky, Pawel Janczarski, Artem Rostovtsev (guide).

Alex Abramov, Everest-2019 expedition leader: we have rest days now. We decided not to hurry, the weather is bad…

Today there was really strong wind on Everest…

The team of the 7 Summits Club celebrates Irina Zisman's Birthday on the bank of small river, where the team members catch trout…

The next two or three days, our team goes up to Everest…

Guide the 7 Summits Club Artem Rostovtsev:

Team Everest-2019. We have adopted for it the name of "Change the bottle!"  We'll climb up for acclimatization from Base camp to the North Col. Today there will be climb from ABC camp to the Saddle, there we will spend a night at 7000 meters. The wind is blowing very strong, which worries us.

 Artem Rostovtsev, guide the 7 Summits Club:

 The team returned to the base camp. The strategy of successful ascent is the same for all: consistently rotation after rotation to get used, as far as possible, to new heights. And then rest at base camp. So the day before we got used to the height of the Advanced camp (ABC) at 6400. We also got acquainted with our team of Sherpas, and conducted training with them using fixed ropes.  And now we will observe the forecasts and may have to speed up the climb to the North Col. It is exciting!

Alex Abramov, expedition leader of the expedition:

 Today our team rested in the Base Camp.  Official representatives of the Tibetan mountaineering federation came to us and took money for the arrangement of fixed ropes way. So far, the route is not equipped, even to the North Col. They say that avalanche danger exist.

 Life in the camp went on as usual: shower, massage, bar, visiting. The neighbors played Rugby, which was the first time here. And we were learning a new invention: “Sherpa rope”. So we called a short link between the membert and Sherpa. It was my idea to improve security. Now the responsible Sherpa will be connected to his member with a 3-meter rope.

Alex Abramov, leader of Everest expedition  of the 7 Summits Club :

 News of my project "7 summits in 7 months". Greetings from Everest! Today we had a Puja, the consecration of the camp.  It was fun, all smeared with Jampay.  A massage salon was opened today. There was a yoga session after lunch. And at 5 PM, the bar was opened. Many guests from other expeditions come to us.  Today we sent a new caravan of cargo for the higher camps on yaks. Tomorrow we are going to acclimatize to the frozen cascades.

Today our team Everest-2019 came to our super-comfortable "luxury camp". On the way we passed 10 check posts. But nothing bad happened. At the entrance of the camp we were met with champagne. We congratulated Ivan Pominov on his birthday. After a delicious lunch with borscht, there was training to work with oxygen equipment. Then birthday party continued in our bar (cabin company). Today the team sleeps in masks with artificial oxygen…

Today our team had a day full of adventures and impressions.  We moved from Lhasa in Shegar, admired the scenery of Tibet.   Visiting the market was the main thing in the new place.  This is our traditional place to buy blankets and pillows for the base camp.

While one part of our team is already coming to the Everest base camp, the second team yesterday arrived in Lhasa. The members sleep off after the flights, then visited the Potala -  Palace of the Dalai Lama. We bought different differences today.

Alexander Abramov, head of the Everest expedition:

 Members and guides of the 7 Summits Club  Everest expedition visited the city of Chengdu, looked at the pandas, tried Chinese cuisine…

Construction of a Luxury camp near Everest continues.  We are sure that the best camp on Everest will be built by the arrival of our team. We have developed a new kind of kitchen. It is equipped better than kitchens in restaurants of Kathmandu.  Kitchen is done in the tents form a semicircle, with hardwood floors.  There are made extractor fan, freezers, storerooms. And now we've built wooden floors in all the public tents.

 Need simply to see! Now in the Base camp from Tibet there is a constant electricity 24 hours, so all this has become possible.

 Eight members of the Everest expedition of the 7 Summits Club and two guides took off tonight from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.  Their way goes through the Chinese city of Chengdu to the Tibetan capital Lhasa, where they will begin their March to the base camp Everest. Another six members of the expedition arrive by other flights, and a guide Sergey Larin is already in the base camp.

 Good luck!

 The team flies to Everest

The base camp of the expedition  of the 7 Summits Club on Everest is certainly the best, most comfortable in the Himalayas. The accumulated vast experience in its organization allows the team of our Sherpas  quickly and efficiently recreate it from year to year. Now in the base camp  preparation works  are finishing. By the arrival of the guests, that is, the main part of the expedition, everything will be ready – the camp will be provided with everything necessary…

 The first members, guide and doctor in one person Sergey Larin, base camp manager Elena Abramova, our main Sherpas Mingma and Dendi on the way to the base camp…

 The traditional evening of the meeting of friends of the 7 Summits Club 7 Peaks, dedicated to the departure of the expedition on Everest, took place on the eve, April 10, in the lecture hall of the Club of travelers "Sport Marathon".  Thanks to everyone who came, thanks to the owners!   The atmosphere of the meeting was wonderful, the organization – at the highest level.

Group Everest-2019, not in full. There will be 14 participants and three guides.

All photos are here (62 photos)

The next expedition of the 7 Summits Club to Everest starts in April. By tradition, which is already 15 years old, we are going on the eve of departure of the main group for a friendly evening party. This year we will do it in a new place, with our friends from The Sports-Marathon. Last year they made an incredible feat: they opened a Club of Travelers almost in the center of the capital. In the lecture rooms everything is thought out and well arranged, there is a well-established equipment. The 7 Summits  Club hopes for long-term and fruitful cooperation with the creative team of The Sport-Marathon.

We are waiting for you on April 10, 2019, beginning at 19: 00.

Address of venue: Moscow, 5-ya Kozhukhovskaya d. 10. Metro station Avtozavodskaya.

Everything is close, by Moscow standards.

The program of the evening will be specified, which we will regularly report. It is clear that there will be Alexander Abramov's speech with the story about the forthcoming expedition, about his project "Seven summits in seven months". As well as  will be a presentation of the participants of the new expedition, words of farewell from the "veterans". There will be significant guests, there will be interesting stories, inspiring videos. There will be beautiful girls and beautiful men.