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The 7 Summits Club guide Natalia Marinkevich reports from the Elbrus region:

Certification successfully completed! Existing skills and knowledge have been systematized into more convenient algorithms, a lot of new and useful information, and a pleasant experience. Thanks to the wonderful instructors Sergey Privalov and Mikhail Mironov!

The 7 Summits Club guide Natalia Marinkevich from the Central Caucasus:
Hello everyone from Adyl-Su! We climb rocks, rescue friends from crevasses, lead each other on a short leash, climb ice walls, and do much more interesting and useful things! We encourage all guides in our country to not be afraid to test their skills and undergo certification!

Greetings from Adyl-Su to everyone from the guides of the 7 Summits Club! Following our exercise regimen, we started the morning with a formation. Dmitry opened the lineup today. After that, we headed out to the slopes of Elbrus. The snow fell nonstop, accompanied by gusts of wind. We were the only ones on the slope. Apparently, there aren't many people here who enjoy being trapped in the snow!

We tramped through the snow, made our way through drifts, and demonstrated our belay skills. We checked the slope for avalanche danger. Overall, we lived up to our title of super guide, and our examination committee confirmed it.

Your super guides: Alexander Dorojukov, Evgeny Fedyunin, Dmitry Semenov, Kristina Putintseva.

Greetings from the 7 Summit Club guides from Adyl-Su! Early in the morning, we set out through the Dzhantugan alpine camp towards the Kashkatash Glacier. We showed each other how to properly cross rivers and navigate scree slopes. The higher we climbed, the more interesting and varied the terrain became, and an incredibly beautiful panorama from the glacier to the forest valley opened up before us. On the glacier, our examiners gave us very interesting tasks, so we didn't have time to get bored or freeze. We jumped into crevasses, pulled each other out…

All in all, we completed the tasks successfully, finishing everything before dusk.

 Your super guides:

Alexander Dorozhuk,

Evgeny Fedyunin,

Dmitry Semenov,

Kristina Putintseva.

Greetings from the super guides in the Adyl-Su Valley! There was a very strong thunderstorm last night that lasted all night... Luckily, the clouds began to clear in the morning, and we went to the rock module exams. We demonstrated our ascent and descent skills, organized rescue operations, and climbed various rock routes. Our examiners, strict and attentive, kept a close eye on us, and we joyfully completed all the tasks!

 Your guides:

Alexander Dorojukov, Evgeny Fedyunin, Dmitry Semenov, Kristina Putintseva.

The 7 Summits Club Guide Boris Egorov reports from the Elbrus region:

I thought I'd rest somewhere by the sea after climbing an eight-thousander, and then head back to Nepal, to Ama Dablam. But the mountains wouldn't let me go: I rushed to the Elbrus region for my guide certification. And there were new locations: the Dzhan-Tugan rock laboratory, the Kashkatash glacier, and the good old snow on Elbrus. I passed all my tests with flying colors. It's great when you love what you do!

 Greetings from the & Summits Club guides to everyone from the Elbrus region! As is customary, every five years we undergo recertification and pass exams to prove our guiding skills. Yesterday we arrived at the Adyl-Su mountaineering camp. We explored the grounds, took a walk around the area, completed formal paperwork, and met with the examiners and the certification committee.

Today we began testing our knowledge and have already successfully passed some of the exams. We'll continue tomorrow.

 Your guides:

Alexander Dorojukov, Evgeny Fedyunin, Dmitry Semenov, Kristina Putintseva.

The 7 Summits Club thanks everyone who visited our event!

We summed up the season in the Southern Hemisphere, awarded our heroes with medals of the projects "Seven Volcanoes" and "Seven Summits". We introduced our future climbers from the spring expeditions to Dhaulagiri, Everest and Lhotse. There was a lot of music, dancing, fun.

We are now waiting for the results of the work of photographers and videographers.

We hope that at the end of the spring season in the Himalayas we will gather again and everything will work out again!

At the Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation on November 30, several awards were presented as part of the Steel Angel project. Women's mountaineering is on the rise! The organizers of the Steel Angel project promise to make the guide competition an annual event. We welcome this initiative! We have many guides and they are all wonderful, and all deserve awards. See you next year! Let's keep working!

On November 30, the traditional Gala Evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation was held in the building of the historic Palace of Culture of MIIT. The event, in the preparation and holding of which, again traditionally, the 7 Summits Club plays an important role. It can be said that every year the scale of the evening increases, both its main program and additional options are expanded. New types of awards appear, more and more athletes are honored. And in the halls of the Palace of Culture this time there was a lively trade, a buffet was open, there were several exhibitions. The program became longer in duration and ended late in the evening.

The 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club were responsible for presenting memorable awards to climbers of Everest and other eight-thousanders at the gala evening of the Russian Mountaineering Federation. Here you can see how it happened. Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko and our wonderful girls-managers did a great job and provided the heroes of the season with a memorable festive evening. Everything is fine with our part of the mountaineering process. As one of our best guides says, "let's keep working"!

Dear friends, our super-travelers and super-climbers,

On October 10, we celebrate the beginning of the autumn season and sum up the results of the past! We invite you to our seasonal party "Spring-Summer 2024 After Party".

First of all, we will tell you about our achievements over the past six months. Then we will reward those who have completed the "Seven Summits" or "Seven Volcanoes" programs over the past year, we will honor the climbers of Everest in the 2024 season.

And most importantly... We will tell you about Alexander Abramov's new record-breaking project "7 Volcanoes in 7 Months", which you still have the opportunity to join!

We are waiting for you at the Leningrad Club to hear your stories and share our most important news with you!

Alexander Abramov has come up with a new project – extreme adventures for three days without eating. A group of employees of the 7 Summits Club is experiencing the program for themselves.

 Greetings from the "hungry" group in Krasnaya Polyana! We had a very active and eventful day today. With the start of the first cabins, the group was already climbing the cable car to meet adventures. We climbed the highest point of the area - Mount Kamenny Stolb. Along the way, we admired the alpine zone, various grasses and an abundance of wildflowers, and from the top we saw dizzying views of mountain ranges.

Very soon we went to another very beautiful place - the Mendelikha waterfalls. We overcame long descents and ascents without slowing down.

But we decided to finish our route in the Yeti Park along rope routes.

Tired, but very satisfied, by the evening we discovered such an unusual place - Glamping, where we lit a bonfire with the first stars and sang songs.

Your super guides: Kristina Putintseva and Alexander Abramov.

Ivan Dusharin was an amazing man. He is always friendly and considerate, and at the same time an outstanding organizer, an authoritative leader. An engineer-inventor, a technician, and at the same time the author of books full of poetic attitude to mountains, to nature, to the fate of man. He has never been among the stars of mountaineering, but any athlete can envy his achievements.

 The 7 Summits Club has always been proud of its friendship with this outstanding man. And especially by the fact that he worked for us periodically as a guide.  We also remember our joint ascents of Mount Everest, Ojos del Salado and Vinson. And, of course, our joint record-breaking campaign "Seven Summits - in less than a year”, in 292 days. This is still the record for the speed of climbing all the highest peaks of the continents by one team. Only singles walked faster.

 On March 28, the staff and friends of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club summed up the results of the last season at the Winter 2024 After Party. We talked about our achievements over the past six months in Antarctica and South America. Those who closed the "Seven Psummits" and "Seven Volcanoes" programs over the past year were awarded.

And then we met the onset of a new season of climbing and trekking. Our climbing teams on Everest (two groups), Dhaulagiri, Lhotse and Kanchenjunga were solemnly conducted! Thanks to everyone who came and shared this little holiday with us!

A ski trip to the South Pole has just ended and here are 2 new teams now in Antarctica. The Vinson Mountain team will climb the highest peak in Antarctica. This is the key to the Seven Summits project. The ascent will be led by guides Artyom Rostovtsev and Tomasz Kobelski from Poland. There are 6 participants and 2 guides in the group. And the team went to Sidley Volcano, the highest volcano in Antarctica . This is the key to the Seven Volcanoes project. The team consists of 8 participants led by Lyudmila Korobeshko and American guide Larry Holmgren. In total, 8 people have conquered the "Seven volcanoes" in Russia at the moment. 6 more people will be added in case of luck after the expedition to Sidley Volcano. Good luck!
Alex Abramov from Aconcagua Base Camp, where this year the 7 Summits Club has six groups from the beginning of December to the end of February. We are the best!

In the spring of 2024, an International Chess Tournament will be held on Everest with the support of FIDE.  According to the scheme "Mountaineering + Chess". The tournament will begin at the Everest Base Camp with 1/4 finals. Then each new round will take place in the next high-altitude camp. The finalists will play in the Everest assault camp and then will have the opportunity to climb Everest. The prize fund of the tournament is $ 150,000

If you want to participate, register on the website of the 7 Summits Club.

The organizers are "7 Summits Club" and "Security Code".

 The video shows the President of the 7 Summits Club Alex Abramov and the CEO of the Security Code company Andrey Golov.

We spent the night from October 13 to October 14 at the Khvaltish Hotel at an altitude of 1613 meters. It is located on the shore of the Gergebil reservoir. So far, only the first steps have been taken here to improve this promising place. We had dinner and breakfast in glamping dome tents near the hotel. There's nothing wrong with the food here. In the evening we were pleased with dancing by our friends! And in the morning there was exercise, breakfast with coffee and a long journey... Dagestan is bigger than you think. This picturesque, hospitable republic largely consists of objects of interest to tourists. You can spend a month here, but you won't see everything. This is true. But we simply did not consider it possible to ignore the oldest city of the Russian Federation, the millennial Derbent. Of course, the walls erected in the sixth century are impressive. Yes, indeed. We had a wonderful guide who courageously coped with a large group surrounded by hundreds of other tourists. At the end we had a very hearty meat lunch with fragrant local wine. And back to the buses – to the airport…

There we said goodbye to our Dagestani friends. I really want to see them again and visit Dagestan again.

The highest point of the Gunib district is the Mayak (Lighthouse) Mountain with a height of 2,352 meters. Today our team passed the traverse of the massif, visiting the famous Gunib tunnel on the descent. It was punched specifically for the passage of Emperor Alexander II in the 60s of the XIX century.  As a result, we got about 20 kilometers with a height difference of up to 1 kilometer. The weather was great, everyone in the group walked at a different pace, but steadily. We admired the grandiose views of mountainous Dagestan, saw soaring eagles under us. Many thanks to the local guys who accompanied us and showed us the right way! All the participants of this climb were just happy with how they spent that day!

On this day, we were accompanied by beautiful weather.  After high-quality morning exercises (thanks to the guide Evgeny Fedyunin) and breakfast, we went on an excursion to the abandoned village of Gamsutl. A wonderful path led us to the ruins of a once large settlement. For lunch we moved to the modern village of Choh. Then we visited the observation point, from which the artist Aivazovsky painted the famous panorama. And a visit to the Saltinsky Waterfall. Local canyoning was quite a worthy end of the day. Thanks to our Dagestan partners, the organizers of the tour! Thanks to all the participants!

Yesterday, June 8, the party of the 7 Summits Club and the 8000 Club "Spring 2023 After Party" took place. We summed up the results of the successful Himalayan season and shared our plans for the near future.

The presentation of Lyudmila Korobeshko's book "The Height Gene 2.0: A Woman's View" will also take place as part of the evening. There was a lot of communication, pleasant meetings and acquaintances. Well, we had fun, too. See the photos, look for yourself! And those who were not with us, envy! It is rare where you can meet so many positive people.