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Hello, everyone! It is Vladimir Kotlyar from Argentina, climbing program Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America. Today we have a day of rest, but the rest was active. We went up to the nearest glacier looked great shape of mountainous terrain, called Penitentes. We had a little photo shoot there. Then all members passed medical supervision. Health for all is excellent, can be sent into space. But not to the space we're leaving tomorrow for the next camp, camp Canada. Today we collect things, pack food and fuel. And rest. All the best!

The second group followed immediately behind the first, with a small interval .... On January 23, the participants met with the guide of 7 Summits Club Vladimir Kotlyar in Mendoza. On February 5 in heavy weather conditions (strong wind) our guys made their way to the top of Aconcagua. Well done!

The 7 Summits Club guide Vladimir Kotlyar sent photos of the first ascent of the season on Aconcagua .... The expedition took place from 3th to 18th of January. The team consisted of 8 people. January, 15 brothers Vladimir and Konstantin Lavrentjevs, Gennady Anuchin, Denis Kiriyenko and Vladimir Kotlyar reached the summit.

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, from an expedition to Aconcagua. Today there was a long day, and the mountain showed its severe character . Nevertheless, our group climbed the top. Today, except us, at top there were 4 more persons … That is, four Canadians were after us. There was very strong wind, all groups cancelled and turned back from the trail. It was little confusing. But we decided to try our good luck. And good luck smiled to us, we reached the top.

Now we went down on Plaza de Mulas and tomorrow we plan to go to the warm Mendoza. We want to warm a little our bones because were frozen to horror. Generally, all thanks who worried about us! Good luck!

Hello! It is Vladimir Kotlyar, the guides of the expedition to Aconcagua. Today we went from Nido de Кондорес to Cholera, it was for acclimatization reason. We went briskly enough, went down and now we are on the Plaza de Mulas. We are resting, eating etc. In General, the group restores strength prior to storm the summit. We are all well. Tomorrow we plan to have a day of rest. The weather is good, that's good. Mow it is windy. Weather forecasters promise the next three days strong wind. On the scheduled day of the ascent it should be “a window”. Goodbye!

Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the program Ascent of Aconcagua. Today with the group we went on acclimatization hike to the Plaza France. We climbed the height 4100. Up we walked for five hours and a half, half an hour sat there, drank tea, ate and went down for two hours and a half. After that, the doctor examined the group. Indicators all excellent, the group is just like the astronauts! You can all send after Aconcagua to the moon. In General, the mood is all excellent, ready to fight. We send greetings to our Homeland!

The group came to Mendoza, this is end of expedition. One of summiters Genis Kirienko sent by facebook some pictures from the climb...

Seven Summits Club, this is Vladimir Kotlyar. Hello! We went to the Plaza de Mulas. Now we have a hot shower, a good dinner, bottle of wine, a steak. In General, everything is fine. Today we will spend the night here , relax, collect things and tomorrow we get back to civilization. In General, it is the successful completion of the journey. All the best!

Seven Summits Club, Hello! This is Vladimir Kotlyar from Aconcagua. We are on the top of the highest peak of South America Mount Aconcagua. With me: brothers Lavrentievs, Vladimir and Constantine, Anuchin Gennady and Denis Kirienko. Thanks for the support and organization of travel to all employees of the Club! Thank you! We begin the descent. All the best!

Hello, Club!  This is Vladimir Kotlyar from Aconcagua. We have the good  weather here in the base camp. We went for a rest day in the Plaza de Mulas. The group will go up tomorrow, but not in full. Roman flew down by a rescue helicopter. In his lungs fluid began to accumulate. In general, the further climb was unsafe. In all others -  everything is fine. Guys are healthy,  they are in the mood of fighting. We hope for good weather. All the best! Thank you all!

January, 3th a traditional expedition of the 7 Summits Club to Aconcagua started. Eight participants led by a guide of 7 Summits Club Vladimir Kotlyar are going to climb the highest peak in the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere. While all goes according to plan. Today, the group must come to the base camp Plaza de Mulas. All participants (and guide) are cheerful, happy, send greetings and congratulations on Orthodox Christmas!

Google has been doing a lot to make Google Maps more about exploring the world, including places few will ever be able to see with their own eyes. Today, the company announced that it has added more locations to Maps, including Street View-style access to some of the highest peaks in the world.

Via the official Google Blog, the company revealed the introduction of new Street View features for some of Earth’s most celebrated mountains, including Everest, Mount Elbrus, Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro. They belong to the famous Seven Summits, an elite collection of the highest mountains on each continent. You don’t even have to acclimatize to high altitudes to check out these locations on Google Maps.

There’s a lot of detail in the virtual tours you can take of these peaks, including images of base camps set up by actual explorers. Google set out with a fisheye lens and lightweight tripod to capture the images, and will be detailing the whole expedition in a Google+ Hangout which is set to kick off at 10 AM PT today.

Google has been doing a lot to build out some amazing views of the more remote corners of the world, including its recent introduction of Street View tours of the Grand Canyon, Antarctica and other far-flung locations. Google’s remote tourism is actually an incredibly cool way to attract eyeballs to the Maps product, while helping the company build out an even more comprehensive database than it already has.

techcrunch.com

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Aconcagua. Summit

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Everest. Base camp

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Kilimanjaro. Shira camp

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Elbrus. Barrels Refufe

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Your day job, not to mention fitness level, will probably keep you from ever ascending the mightiest peaks on Earth. Don’t worry. Google’s done the hard work for you and released the stunning panoramic images needed to make you feel like you’re on top of the world.

Google, which seems determined to map every square inch of the planet, on Monday released Street View images from four of the seven tallest mountains on earth. One lucky engineer, who happens to be a passionate mountaineer, led the Google Mountain Enthusiast team during a project that was strictly a labor of love for all involved.

“There’s a social benefit to using these tools to tell the story in these environments. A chance to really connect to whats on the ground with a rich imagery so they can see what it looks like and feels like to be there,” says Dan Fredinburg, who is a technical program manager for security and privacy when he isn’t scaling summits.

Fredinburg’s teams — which included four to seven people, depending upon the trip — used a lightweight tripod and digital camera with a fisheye lens to visually map Aconcagua in Argentina (22,841 feet), Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania (19,341 Feet), Mount Elbrus in Russia (18,510 feet) and Everest South Base Camp in Nepal (17,598 feet). It’s the same setup the Street View team uses for the Business Photos program. They opted to use that rig instead of the 40-pound, 75-megapixel Google Trekker backpack.

“When you’re going expeditions in the alpine style environment, every gram, every ounce, every pound counts,” Fredinburg says.

Fredinburg says Google has been very receptive and supportive of his blending together work and play. Beyond slaking his thirst for adventure, the excursions — made over the course of 18 months — helped make Street View more accurate, vivid and useful for his fellow adventurers, as well as those happy to explore Earth from the comfort of home.

His passion for climbing almost got the better of him while climbing Everest. He really, really wanted to go all the way to the top, but the team arrived just before the summit window in October.

“It was only planned to go to the basecamp,” says Fredinburg. “I did try to convince my guides to take me further up. I was very excited when I got to basecamp.”

His enthusiasm led to an awkward conversation with the guides, who refused to take him any higher than base camp. He pressed the issue, and offered to pay them for their trouble. Still, they refused. It eventually dawned on him that perhaps it was too risky. So he asked about the odds of dying.

“Certain,” came the response. “100 percent.”

Dan Fredinburg on Elbrus

Carlos Sa marathon runner and climber has entered the record books after his conquest of the highest peak in the Americas.

The Portuguese knocked nearly five hours off the record for the ascent of Aconcagua cutting the time from 20 hours to 15 hours and 42 minutes.

The mountain, in the Andes range inArgentinarises to almost 7,000 meters and this was Sa’s second attempt at the record.

Technically in mountaineering terms it is known as an easy climb, but it has what is called, “a hidden evil” the intense cold which has caused many injures to climbers in the past and Sa also had to cope with deep snow hampering his progress to the top and that record.

Source: Euronews 

From 7Summits-Club

Carlos Sa or Carlos Gomes Dasa - 39 years old ultra sky-runner of world class, one of the first on all ratings.

That record toAconcaguawas carefully prepared. Carlos Sa with his team arrived to Argentina in December. On December 27 there was his first climb of Aconcagua for acclimatization and route studying. The first attempt of establishment of a new record took place on January 13. However in the upper part of a route conditions were unfavorable - snow swept up the track. The second attempt took place in three days. On January 16 Carlos started at 5:20 a.m. from an entrance to the national park Horcones, from height of 2750 meters. His start was noted by employees of the park who and fixed then his finish. At the top of Aconcagua (6962 meters, on the last measurement) the Portuguese was approximately at 5 p.m.. . And at 8:34 p.m. Sa returned to Horcones. Total time, that is a new record – 15 hours 42 minutes. Distance – about 81 kilometers, vertical drop – about 4500 meters.

Time of the Portuguese runner is confirmed as record by official representatives of National park. Also it was reported that Karlush Sa broke a record of the Peruvian Holmes Pantoja Bayona (20:35).

It, probably, means so that the time shown in 2007 by Spaniard Jorge Egochiarega - 14 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds – are recognized informal, or more precisely, as the officially unrecognized.

In 2000 Pelissier, Brunod and Meraldi - Italian team (all stars of ski-mountaineering) climbed on top of Aconcagua from Plaza de Mulas in 3 hours 40 minutes (1:12 – for descent). Still this result is considered as a record.

Well-known Catalan Kilian Jornet (at the left, Carlos at the right ) intends to establish new speed records at all Seven Summits.Aconcaguais planed for 2014. What route he will choose ?

Photos sent by Dima Ermakov, a guide of the 7 Summits Club.

Seven Summits, hello! Dima Ermakov and Denis Saveliev send a message from the Cholera camp… Yesterday we were almost by whole team up at the summit, the highest point in the two Americas - Aconcagua. Only Semion Deyak could not reach the summit, a bit about 50 meters by altitude. Local rangers stopped everyone in their view who was climbing late. Well, nothing. We all have a good mood. Today we went down. Best regards!

Let's count.

(1) Alexander Abramov with four comrades goes by ski to the South Pole - the program "Last Degree".

(2) According to the plan 10th of January, Vyacheslav Adrov and Vitali Simonovich  start for the program climbing the highest volcano in Antarctica Mount Sidley.

(3) Large group (12 people) began its long journey to the summit of Aconcagua. Guides our Club: Dmitry Ermakov and Denis Saveliev.

(4) Another large group (10 people, guide Artem Rostovtsev) began the program Climb of Kilimanjaro. They will also visit a safari and Zanzibar.

(5) Another large group (12 people + 1 guide) started with a program of  the climb of Kilimanjaro one day earlier, on January 2. This is - a joint project of the Donetsk Vertical-Tour and 7 Summits Club. Most of the participants are from teh city Donetsk, as well as guide Vyacheslav Vyblov.

Just a few small groups of Kilimanjaro travel by programs of basic services:

(6) - January 2, Machame route

(7) - January 3, Marangu route

(8) - from January 7 to Machame Route with Safari and Zanzibar.

For individual applications travel the following members of our Club.

(9) Jamil Manizada met the New Year at the top of the highest mount in Australia (island and contitnent)Mount Kosciuszko

(10) Mary Dyachenko celebrated the New Year in Mexico, climbing Orizaba.

(11) We have a group in Indonesia, on the islands and volcanoes.

(12) Tomorrow, January 6, the Group of 7 Summits Club arrives for trekking to Everest Base Camp.

(13) On January 3th  a group of our Club came in Morocco. The program includes: -climbing the highest peak in North Africa -MountToubkal and excursions to historical places.

(14) Finally, three days later, on January 9th, another group of 7 Summits Club will start to Chile. Program: Climbing the highest volcano of the World Ojos del Salado,  and after that  make Patagonia cruises and tour wineries in Chile.

Total - 14 teams for the New Year and the first half of January. Our personal best record.

Dmitry Ermakov and Denis Saveliev sent an information from the slopes of Aconcagua. Today, a group starts from the camp Nido de Condores to the area of the camp Cholera. The weather is good, everything goes fine. Tomorrow is set to be the decisive day of the expedition. The group will go to storm Aconcagua.

The Seven Summits records!

The Team made up of Lyudmila Korobeshko, Ivan Dusharin and Maxim Shakirov battled frigid Antarctic winds for two long weeks, barely managing to get in a shot at the summit before a brutal snowstorm began. "The journey was an entirely new experience for us, but it was difficult too – technically, physically and emotionally – in large part due to the cold", said Ivan Dusharin about the expedition:

They’ve done it on December 11, 2012 (coincidentally International Mountain Day). Russian climbing trio reached the summit of Vinson Massif, the highest mountain inAntarctica, capping off their year-long mountain-climbing marathon, "Alpari: On Top of the World".

The Vinson expedition was Lyudmila Korobeshko’s second trip toAntarcticathis year. In January she took part in a ski expedition to the South Pole. About her experience on Vinson, Lyudmila said, "I was the only one from the team that had already been to the summit of Vinson, so I had a pretty good idea of the difficulty and the danger that were in store for us. The toughest parts had to be going two weeks without a shower and dragging sleds filled with our own waste. Well, that and the cold, of course. Everything else was fun."

The Team now holds a number of new records, having completed the Seven Summits in only 300 days.

First and foremost, our captain, Lyudmila Korobeshko, is the new holder of the women’s Seven Summits speed record, meaning she climbed the highest mountain on each of the planet’s seven continents faster than any woman in history. This year, she also became the first woman fromRussiato climb Everest twice. Ivan Dusharin also set the Russian Seven Summits "age" record. Ivan turned 65 this fall. In addition to the remarkable individual achievements of Lyudmila and Ivan, our trio also set the Russian Seven Summits team speed record. What better way to bring in the holidays?

If you would like to learn more about our team’s adventures throughout the year and access exclusive photos and video content, you can find all this and more on Team official site.

www.Alpari-life.ru

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Dima Ermakov and Denis Saveliev with a group afer breakfast went up from the Canada camp to Nido de Condores. It is an acclimatization outing...

Today our big group (12 climbers + 2 guides) reached the base camp Plaza de Mulas. Everything is OK. Guides: Dima Ermakov and Denis Saveliev.