Mountaineering School in Moscow - Page 2

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.

Maxim Foygel, guide of the 7 Summits Club: Cold and drizzly weather in the capital of mountaineering Chamonix has not inspired us to venture into the rocks. We quickly switched to Italy:)

Oh, how wonderful is autumn Aosta! A complete contrast of France.

On the rocks near the village of Arvier we worked out a basic mountaineering technic - descent and ascent on a rope, tied knots and refreshed knowledge on working with different types of equipment.

The forecast for tomorrow is good, we go on the glacier Mer de Glas for training in ice.

June 8^th the 7 Summits Club 7 held another lecture along the program of its Mountaineering School. This time the focus was on the highest peak in Africa, the legendary Kilimanjaro. Our small room was full and listened with great attention to our lecturers:  manager of our company Anastasia Kuznetsova and one of the summiters on this mountain, a member of the Writers' Union Valery Lavrus

See the video of the lecture "Kilimanjaro: A pledge of successful ascent, or whatever you wanted, but were afraid to ask" –

February 1th in the sports complex DDS  it was carried out regular technical training under the guidance of our "guru", the master of sports, the 7 Summits Club coach Alexander Lastochkin. Everything was great, just super! We all are waiting for the next technical training - February 8th! It will be interesting and useful to everyone!

January, 25th  the first this year  technical Training Mountain School of the 7 Summits Club was held in the sports complex DDS under the guidance of coach, master of sports Alexander Lactochkin. The main direction of training - work with a rope, belay,  using fixed ropes.

Next technical training will be held on February 1, the wait for everyone! Just please, be recorded in advance. Technical training cost - 1000 rubles.

The first in this year's technical training took place on January 18 at the sports complex DDS . Classes are held under the supervision of the 7 Summits Club coach, master of sports Alexander Lastochkin.

  All climbers are well aware of the importance of good equipment, the right to use it. As well as the tactics of ascent, which also paid attention to the technical training. Based on the fact that it is necessary for our students, we build a lesson plan until the summer...

December 15th in the rock wall at Rock City next training session was held under the guidance of coach Egor Dulnev. Everything went perfectly. Join our mountain training school!

   We are waiting for the next training session at Rock City!

Galina Rossova: We had a great work out, we try new routes and new methods of technology. We remind you that everyone at every level (even if it is any one) we are happy to meet for Mondays in the DDS palace, on Thursdays - in the Rock City.

Today, the group of 7 Summits Club, all members, under the leadership of our guide Vladimir Kotlyar climbed Island Peak – the famous Himalayan peaks. Well done! Watch the video clip directly from the top!

On 20^th  October at the climbing gym Skala (Rock) city for the first time there was training session of the Mountain school of the 7 Summits Club. Classes were held under the guidance of coach-instructor Egor Dulnev.

Many thanks for the photos to  Roman Reutov, Everest summiter and professional photographer!

This training session was not conducted in our common place (DDS) and climbing center the Big Wall. It's like to visit different mountains...  the reason for the unscheduled exercise was the visit to Moscow  our wonderful Crimean guide Natasha Kartashova. A great climber, she in a short time the co-working with the 7 Summits Club learned new pedagogical approaches to learning skills on the rocky terrain of people specializing in commercial mountaineering... Thanks, in particular, the presence of two Alexandrs, our President (Abramov) and our Coach (Lastochkin), training became fun and informative.

 So - welcome to the Crimean rocks to the Crimean sea, Crimean nature and Crimean wine!

On October 10^th  there was  the first training session of new season with coach Alexander Lastochkin. Now the trainings will take place every Monday. And every workout will bring something new. For students of the Mountain school every Monday becomes a special day . And this is due to the fact that our coach, two-time champion of Russia on mountaineering, gives very interesting assignments for practicing techniques of climbing. In parallel, he talks about the most exciting and legendary expeditions, in which participated about different cases that occurred in the mountains around the world.

 Alexander is a terrific climber, and his expertise is fascinating. And we provide you with a unique opportunity to communicate with such man.

March 21, Monday, our next training session on the techniques of rock climbing was held in the gym in the DDS. Participants of our Mountain School are becoming more and more prepared for the upcoming climbing, both physically and psychologically. For all guests in training we prepared some surprises..

Good afternoon! This is Alexander Grebenyuk, Mountain School of the 7 Summits Club on the Caucasian Mineral Waters. The second day of our program ends. First, we worked on a climbing technique at Eagle Rock, on the western spurs of the mountain. And then we passed traverse of the three peaks: Small Beshtau – Main Summit - Curly. Now we are having a snack, drink tea, and we will go down to the cars. Today we have a happy event, one of the school students have a birthday. We congratulated him, congratulations.

All the best!

Hello to all from the hot Crimea! From hot March Crimea. We all did a good job today, climbing rocks with Alina and Vova. They remembered what a rock, what  is climbing technique. Today the weather was wonderful. We trained in the technique of the SPT in caving, we are preparing for a difficult cave. Then we have climbed more, Vova made 6B route.  Alina also well trained. In general, we have worked all day, and they all went to bed early. Tomorrow we have a continuation of the program - a difficult ascent of the wall, eight pitches. Till tomorrow!