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On October 23, the 7 Summits Club celebrated its 12th birthday. Thanks to everyone who came to the gala-evening!  Thanks to those who congratulated us! Thank you RD Studio for a great congratulatory video!

The hall of the Travelers Club was full and it seems to us that the guests were not bored.  Look at the gallery of photos (128 photos in total) and it will become clear that the evening was held in a cheerful and friendly atmosphere.  We as organizers were are happy!

The evening dedicated еo the Birthday of the 7 Summits Club 7 Peaks and summing up the summer season, will be held on October 23 in the Travelers Club of Sports-Marathon.

  We invite all friends and those who want to become our friend!

 Come on Wednesday, October 23. Beginning at 19-30.

  Meeting place: the Travelers Club of Sports-Marathon  Ul. 5-I Kozhukhovskaya, 10

https://sport-marafon.ru/contacts/#map

The end of October – it is time for meetings friends of the 7 Summits Club  on our Birthday. This year we will celebrate it on October 23. Traditionally, we prepare an interesting program of speeches, reports, presentations and awards. But we have no doubt that the main thing in the program will be a simple friendly communication of our guests, hosts and hostesses. We love our friends and we are very pleased that the evening  of the 7 Summits Club have become almost the main gathering place of the climbing community in Russia.

On September 4, a group of six people climbed to the top of Mount Breithorn (4164 meters), located on the border of Switzerland and Italy.  A young girl disabled Zlata Varlamova, a wheelchair user  from the age of three was among the climbers. It is her first and (so far) only summit. A small expedition to the Alps is organized by the club "Extreme Velsk", which is headed by our friend, climber on the "Seven summits" Andrei Podolyan. He personally and two of his companions together with Alpine guides prepared a route for Zlata's ascent. She climbed on jumar and a sledge on the fixed ropes.

The club "Extreme Velsk"  and Zlata express their gratitude to the 7 Summits Club and personally guide Maxim Foygel  for help and organization of this event!

The premiere of the fourth series of the film "The Man who always wanted more" was held today on YouTube channel RD Studio.   This is the story of climbing Mount Everest  by Vasily Shakhnovsky as part of the expedition of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Alexander Abramov.

 RD Studio: Hundreds of hours of grueling training, thousands of meters of climbing up, 3 very difficult peaks behind, and all this in order to make your name in the book of stories of climbing the highest mountain in the World. Vasily Shakhnovsky was 60 years old. And he's going to Everest!

The 7 Summits Club is a growing and creative company. We are always open to new ideas and always ready to open new projects. Today we are announcing our project of climbing all 14 eight-thousanders. Our groups will try to deploy the club's flags on all the highest mountains of the world. In the near future we plan expeditions to Manaslu, Everest from the South and North, Lhotse, Makalu, in the summer of 2020 to Gasherbrum-2 and even K2.

Plans of climbing the eight-thousanders by expeditions the 7 summits Club. 2019 -2020

September 2019

 Manaslu (8156), Nepal. The tour-leaders Sergei Larin and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

April – May 2020

Lhotse (8516m) + Everest (8848m) from the South - leader Vladimir Kotlyar.

Makalu (8462m, Nepal) – leader Artem Rostovtsev.

Everest (8848m, Tibet) from the North - leader Alexander Abramov.

July 2020

Gasherbrum II (8035m, Pakistan)

K2 (8611m, Pakistan)

September 2020

Cho-Oyu – leader Sergey Larin.

Our expeditions are served by our well-trained team of Sherpas, proven high-altitude guides and well-trained in the provision of camping services. With the ideal organization of expeditions, members have a great chance to achieve success, to reach the summit. Climb all 14 eight-thousand - no longer a fantastic dream, but it can be quite a real goal.

Last week our friends from RD Studio pleased us with the first two series of the film "The Man who always wanted more".  The main character – Vasily Shakhnovsky, who as part of the expeditions of the 7 Summits Club  climbed Everest and performed the program "Seven Summits". Part 1 – MT. Kazbek. Part 2 – Manaslu. Complete our video news new film by Eugene Lesnitsky. This time about adventures in mountains of the USA.

In the mountains, meanwhile, our programs continue on a broad front. Elbrus is breaking all records of popularity,  after successful  climbs  last week, to new a week from 7 Summits Club came three groups. Sergei Larin with a group of fathers and sons climbed Kilimanjaro, and Vladimir Kotlyar with his group made acclimatization rotation on the slopes of Khan Tengri.

Good luck in the mountains!

The first of the four parts of the film "The Man who always wanted more" is available on YouTube channel RD Studio.   Vasily Shakhnovsky climbs Mount Kazbek together with friends and guides of the 7 Summits Club:

The premiere of the second part will be held on Sunday, August 11 at 16-00. This time the expedition set out to conquer Mount Manaslu, one of the most beautiful and dangerous mountains of Nepal.

On January 12, an unusual event occurred at the South Pole. A group of 13 men came here on bicycles.  It was a team of the 7 Summits Club: 11 members plus guides Alexander Abramov and Artem Rostovtsev. For the first time the group on two-wheeled bicycles reached the South Pole. And here's a little more than six months later, Alexander Abramov received medals for the world record reaching the South Pole by bicycle.

We were happy to receive a message from Alaska that the team of our friends, on June 17, successfully reached the top of Denali, the highest point of North America! By this ascent Artem Rostovtsev and Alexander Popov completed the program of ascent to all the highest points of all continents - the program "Seven summits"!  Congratulations!

 Artem Rostovtsev is the pride of the 7 Summits Club, one of our leading guides, multi-sportsman and ultramarathon runner, a great friend.

Alexander Popov, representative of Nizhny Novgorod, he is 55 years old. He climbed all peaks with the Summits Club.

From photos of our Malaysian friend RJ Nagarajan:

New forms of the 7 Summits Club...

 RD Studio will make the continuation of the film " The High-Altitude Gene»...

 The 7 Summits and RD Studio continue their fruitful cooperation. According to the results of expeditions on Everest in 2015 and 2016 RD Studio released the film "The High-Altitude Gene Or How To Get To Everest", which was shown on the main channel of Russian television.

 Our cooperation continues. This fall in the Himalayas we will be shooting the film "The High-Altitude Gene - 2", about oxygen free climbing expedition on Manaslu (8156 m).  The head of the expedition Alexander Abramov. Only Everest climbers will be able to take part in the expedition and filming.  The composition of the climbing group: 7 men and 3 women.

At the same time there will be a group of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Sergey Larin.  It will be held according to the standard program of the 7 Summits Club

And about the far-reaching plans: in 2 years we plan to shoot " The High-Altitude Gene -3" at this time on the "Mountain of mountains", the legendary K-2.

Dmitry Tertychny in May 2018 climbed the highest peak of the world, Everest, at the age of just over 17 years and 1 month.  He became the youngest European who managed to do it. And the youngest European who managed to complete the program of climbing all the seven highest peaks of the continents. Dmitry owes all his successes, first of all, to his father, Alexander Tertychny, who not only paid for the trips, but was with him on all these mountains. By the 18th anniversary of the hero was prepared this movie. The  7 Summits Club, which was the organizer of the majority of Dmitry's ascents, presents it to you!

11 April Dmitry performed in the 7 Summits Club a lecture and showed the film…

See the lecture recording on Facebook page

The President of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov announced plans to establish a new record of speed of climbing all of the "Seven summits".  That is, he intends to climb all the highest peaks of the continents in a total of about six months.  But since the ascent will be carried out from January to July, it can be called "Seven Summits in seven months."

 The project will start on January 1, 2019.  At the same time, Alexander Abramov acts as a guide in all programs. And he gathers groups of climbers.  You have a great chance to join them and climb in good company and under the guidance of the legendary leader, the Prisident of the 7 Summits Club. The project starts in January 2019 and is to be completed in July 2019 by climbing all 7 summits. See the program below…

 The speed record from this year belongs to the Australian Steve Plain -117 days, 6 hours and 50 minutes (from the top to the top).  The previous world achievement of Pole Janusz Kochanski remained the record of Europe - 129 days. The record of Russia now belongs to Masha Gordon - 201 days (October 2015 – June 2016).  It's all climbers who specifically set out to show a record time. Some (short) time the record holder was the famous guide from the USA Vernon Tejas. He completed  the "Seven Summits" in 134 days. However, Vern is on some of the ascents series was not a guide went on vacation.

 So Alexander Abramov claims two records: national - for Russians and  probably World for guides at work.

List of programs

 Vinson Massif, Antarctica

1-9 January

 Aconcagua, South America

17-25 January

 Kilimanjaro, Africa

16 - Feb 24

 Carstensz, Australia and Oceania

10 - March 16

 Everest, Asia

15 April-27 May

 Elbrus, Europe

June 10-17

 Denali

June 26-July 12.

Alexander Abramov and Artem Rostovtsev today made an unforgettable trip to Oslo in preparation for the expedition to Antarctica. Besides the fact that we bought skis and boots for skiing in Antarctica to the South Pole, we also visited several unique museums. This is the Museum of Kon-Tiki and Ra ships, in which Thor Heyerdahl's crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is Museum of Arctic and Antarctic discoveries, with the ship FRAM which was built by Nansen.  It was the ship that Amundsen sailed to Antarctica to conquer the South Pole. In General, shopping turned out to be very useful from a cognitive point of view.

The 7 Summits Club  plans to reward climbers on the "Seven Summits", that is, the highest peaks of all continents, a special sign of honor. What will be the order of awarding, we will inform later. Now we offer you to look at the list of summiters from Russia plus those of whom we consider "our". Citizens of Russia in this list are 38 people. And they all, somehow, climbed in the programmes of the 7 Summits Club. With the exception of the first – Fedor Konyukhov, who also was in our group climbing Everest, but after the completion of the program "Seven Summits".  We are proud to note that, apparently (accurate statistics have not yet been restored), Russia is in second place in the world in terms of the number of climbers to the highest peaks of the continents. And this is the merit, first of all, of our 7 Summits Club!  We are proud!

1997.05.26  Fyodor Konyukhov.               Kosciuszko        

2005.11.13  Dmitry Moskalev.    Kosciuszko   2008.02.28-Carstensz

2005.12.15  Alexander Abramov.             Kosciuszko 2008. 02.28 Carstensz

2005.12.15  Victor Bobok.            Kosciuszko 2013.11.08 Carstensz

2006.01.10  Boris Sedusov.          Kosciuszko 2006.01.06

2006.02.02  Karo Ovasapyan (Arm-USA) 2008.02.28

2007.05.19  Israfil Ashurly (AZR)Kosciuszko        

2008.07.06  Igor Pochvalin.          Kosciuszko 2017.11.04  - Carstensz

2008.12.09  Sergey Larin.                            

2008.12.12  Sergey Kofanov.                     

2009.01.02  Lyudmila Korobeshko.          Kosciuszko 2010.10.16 - Carstensz

2010.07.22  Elena Gorelik.           Kosciuszko 2013.09.26

2010.12.27  Sergey Kovalev        Kosciuszko         

2011.01.07  Maxim Bogatyrev.                 

2011.05.21  Yuri Beloyvan.                         

2011.05.21  Igor Prinziuk                             

2012.05.17  Mikhail Turovsky.    Kosciuszko 2013.09.23 Carstensz

2012.11.01  Andrey Podolyan.   Kosciuszko        

2012.12.11  Maxim Shakirov.      Kosciuszko        

2012.12.11  Ivan Dusharin.          Kosciuszko        

2012.12.23  Dmitry Sokov.           Kosciuszko        

2013.09.26  Vitaly Simonovich.                 

2013.10.25  Andrey Filkov Kosciuszko   

2014.01.06  Igor Kadochin.          Kosciuszko        

2014.06.10?        Sergei Dudko.                 Kosciuszko          

2014.06.10?        Dmitry Krasnov.               Kosciuszko        

2015.04.13  Igor Stolyarov.                         

2015.05.29  Yaroslav Sabyrbaev (KAZ)                  

2015.06.15  Sergey Dmitriev                      

2016.05.09  Maria Gordon.                        

2016.05.20  Igor Demyanenko.                

2016.11.01  Irina Kharazova.                      

2017.05.22  Evgeny Kravt.                          

2017.06.20  Alexey Bautin.          Kosciuszko        

2017.11.04  Oleg Savchenko.                    

2017.12.14  Tatiana Jalovchak (Ukr).                      

2018.05.17  Alexander Tertychny.                          

2018.05.17  Dmitry Tertychnyy.               

2018.05.17  Alexey Balakin.                       

2018.05.19  Jamilya Murtazina.                

2018.11.09  Vladimir Belkovich.

2018.11.09  Kirill Semeshkin.

2019.01.06 Vladislav Lachkarev

On November 24, the leaders of the 7 Summits Club 7 Peaks Alexander Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko visited the opening of the exhibition of painting Vasily Nesterenko. It was a pleasure to meet legendary veterans of the national mountaineering Vladimir Shataev, Boris Korshunov, Yuri Tinin, our old friends Alexander Yakovenko, Sergey Bogomolov and Vladimir Suviga.

  "Better than the mountains can only be mountains..." this famous phrase called his new exhibition people's artist of Russia Vasily Nesterenko and it immediately gives us an idea about the theme of the exhibition.

  The exhibition presents his works made over the past 10 years after expeditions to Elbrus, Sayan, Altai Mountains and Kamchatka. The exhibition will give visitors an idea of the unique regions of Russia, the love of which the artist sings in his paintings.

Meeting place: Moscow, Electrolyte PR. 7 / 2.  Ski resort Kant. Chalet Restaurant. 5 minutes from the metro Nagornaya.

 On Friday, October 26th we celebrate the Birthday of the 7 Summits Club!

  You will find: an exciting program, live music and awarding the winners of the contest "Miss Gornyashka 2018".

 Plan:

  19: 30 Opening, live music for guests.

  20: 00 Lyudmila Korobeshko with the report on September ascent on Cho-Oyu.

  20: 30 Performance of artists, live music.

  21: 00 Presentation of prizes to the winners of the photo contest " Miss Gornyashka 2018".

  21: 30 Alexander Abramov -  for all questions

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Andrey Berezin, guide of the 7 Summits Club: the school of mountaineering instructors in Bezengi camp is completed.  All cadets of the school received a certificate of graduation, and now it remains to obtain a certificate of mountaineering instructor to undergo training of initial  climbers. The final days passed as one in a series of tests and exams. Today our course has gone home. I want to express my gratitude to the 7 Summits Club on behalf of the guides club (Alexander Lastochkin, Boris Yegorov, Alexander Dorozhukov, Andrey Berezin), received the opportunity to take a course.

We are pleased to announce that this fall the 7 Summits Club  will organize a unique expedition "Two in one": Everest and Lhotze for one trip. Alexander Abramov held talks with the Nepalese authorities and received "good" from them.  Our Sherpa team is ready to hang fixed ropes through the Khumbu icefall and ensure the safety of climbers. We received good and "safety" option to overcome the icefall, that is, given permission for the transfer by helicopters people and cargo immediately to the camp 2, at the beginning of the Western Cwm.

 We invite to take part in our expedition the boldest and most daring climbers!   It's a rare chance to go down in history. After all, in the fall climbers rarely climb Everest and Lhotse, and these two peaks in one expedition in the fall has not yet been "conquered".

 Programs with prices will appear on the site in the coming days…

Group  of the 7 Summits Club - Alexander Abramov, Maxim Abramov and Lyudmila Korobeshko climbed the most popular of the peaks of Mount Kenya, Point Lenana (4985 m). After our management was convinced of the good quality of service provided by the local staff,  they visited  one of the national parks. There they made a unique video of transporting the guilty elephant from one national Park to another…