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Alexey Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Georgia:  

Good afternoon, today is Friday 13. Our group, had a good rest after the climb at the Meteostation Refuge (3700). Thanks for the excellent food: 3 times a day and the opportunity to make a coffee break at any time. This helped to quickly restore strength. At 9 o'clock in the morning, we loaded the horses with some of our personal belongings and went down light. The journey to the church took 2 hours (usually 4). From there we went to our excellent hotel in Stepansminda by car. We're going home tomorrow morning. Thank you  Kazbek, Georgia and the host operator for the opportunity to make a great ascent!

Nikita Slotin, guide of the 7 Summits Club from the Pamirs:

Greetings to all from the Pamirs! The group "Knights of the rectangular table" completes the rest and gets ready for work! Tomorrow we will go to Camp-2. On August 15 - to Camp-3 and on August 16 we are planning to climb Lenin Peak! So far, such a plan, and then how the mountain will say its word. In the meantime, we are admiring the views!

Guides Vladimir Kotlyar and Nikita Slotin.

Alexey Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Georgia: The IronMan group climbed on the top of Kazbek today. The day before, the weather forecast was alarming and there was an option to try to postpone the assault to the day after tomorrow. But there the forecast was even worse. There was an intrigue until one o'clock in the morning, but now it's time to make a decision and - yes, there is a chance! We are starting! After 45 minutes, we came to the surface of the glacier, then the movement was with limited visibility, 30-50 meters. When dawn broke, the fog receded in places, a light wind blows. We are going in a tight group, other groups are going in parallel, quite a lot. At 9 and 9-30, we finally reach the top. Unfortunately, there was no visibility, we were standing in the cloud, but the task was completed. Our group went down to the Meteostation Gefuge at 13 o'clock.

Hello everyone, Salam and Aloha! The group of guides Nikita Slotin and Vladimir Kotlyar continues to actively prepare for the ascent on Lenin Peak. Yesterday we went to another location with natural castles.

And, at the same time, on the top of an unnamed hill, we celebrated the birthday of our participant Anya.

Alexey Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Georgia:    August 11.  Today, in the first half of the day, we held training sessions in the snow, walked around in roped team and with helmets.  Now we are preparing for an early exit to storm Kazbek and are watching the weather...

Aloha, friends! The team of the 7 Summits Club on Lenin Peak continues to prepare for the summit assault. More precisely, we are resting now. But, as you remember, we have a rule – if it's a rest, then it's active, if it's a holiday, then it's sports. Therefore, after breakfast, we went for a walk to the "castles" created not by man, but by nature itself.

Aloha, the 7 Summits Club! Our group "Knights of the rectangular table" ascended the peak of Razdelnaya for the purpose of acclimatization. We spent the night twice in Camp-2 and now we have gone down to the first camp to rest before trying to storm the summit.

Alexey Lonchinsky, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Georgia: Good afternoon! The “Kazbek-IronMan” group is in touch.  On August 8, at 10 o'clock in the morning, my colleague Guram and I picked up the members of group at the Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi. We got acquainted with the group and went on a short journey - 2.5 hours to Stepansminda (altitude 1700 m), from where we will start our ascent on Kazbek. We stayed in an excellent hotel, which stands above the center of the village.  It offers stunning views of the surrounding mountains! Here we met another of our guides - George. Everything is going fine so far, the weather and the mood are on top!

Today, on August 9, we moved out of the hotel on two Trucks, passed the PCR and immediately went up to the Sameba Church. We loaded the horses on a large platform and started the track to the AltiHut shelter (3014m).  We reached it at a good pace! Everything is fine, we were lucky with the weather, it was windless, without precipitation and cloudy (not so hot).

It is not the first time that Alexander Fetisov pleases us with his photo reports.  And now he has sent a complete selection of photos from the expedition to Ararat. According to them, you can really appreciate the charm of traveling with the 7 Summits Club to this wonderful area, the very south of the Caucasus.

It was not easy to choose a few of the best works, they are all of high quality.  See here what we have chosen, and here you can see the gallery in full, all 145 images.

The guide of the 7 Summits Club Boris Egorov from Turkey: Hello to everyone from the space group on Ararat! Mission accomplished! All the participants and guides climbed on the top of the legendary Ararat! We were lucky with the weather – we caught a window. All the participants have already safely descended to the base camp. Everyone is healthy, the mood is cosmic. Today we are moving to the city of Van, and on the way we will visit the palace of Ishaq Pasha.

Aloha, 7 Summits! A group with guides Nikita Slotin and Vladimir Kotlyar successfully reached the first camp under Lenin Peak yesterday. And today we climbed the peak of Yukhin (height 5100 meters). Acclimatization rotation continues…

Nikita Slotin, guide of the 7 Summits Club from the Pamirs: Greetings to all from the group "Knights of the rectangular table" from the first camp on 4400! All the participants are in good shape, we reached the camp just in 4: 30 hours, everyone feels great. The weather was pleasant, the sun was shining and allowed us to admire the surrounding beauty of the nature of the Pamir snow-capped mountains. But it's snowing now! The mountains are the best way to overwinter the summer ... Tomorrow we are planning an acclimatization climb on the peak of Yukhin.

Guides Nikita Slotin and Vladimir Kotlyar.

Hello everyone from Ararat!  Today, all the participants of our high-altitude space mission (with the participation of the hero-cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko) have successfully completed acclimatization. We went up to the assault camp at an altitude of 4200 m and on the same day we went down to the base. The weather for the exit was perfect: neither hot nor cold. In the evening, we finally checked the equipment at the base camp and had a very tasty dinner with meat on the fire. Tomorrow we will go to the assault camp and prepare for the final dash to the top. Guides Boris Egorov and Alexander Spirin.

Nikita Slotin, guide of the 7 Summits Club from the Pamirs: Greetings to all from the base camp of Lenin Peak from the group "Knights of the rectangular table"!!! Today we went for acclimatization to the peak of the "Mounted Police" 4150m. The weather was pleasant in the morning, but by the time we got back we were caught in a thunderstorm! Everyone feels good! We just need to pack our things and move on. Tomorrow, according to the plan, we go to the first camp. Guides Vladimir Kotlyar and Nikita Slotin.

Hello to everyone, not from the slopes, but from the top of Ararat! Today, the Olympionika team stood on the top of the legendary volcano. The mountain let it in and let it out. The weather was perfect, despite several hours of snowstorms before the assault. The participants climbed to the top in different ways and almost crawled, and ran with acceleration for the last meters. Now the team is resting at the base camp. Tomorrow we will return to civilization and get acquainted with the local sights. Guides Boris Egorov and Anastasia Kuznetsova.

Guide Maxim Shakirov  from Georgia:  Greetings to all from Sakartvelo from the team "Shvili of Mountains"! We had a very long day today: we got wet in the rain, jumped through crevasses, listened to rockfalls, and also saw Elbrus in the distance from the top of Kazbek!

We're going to bed now…

The photo shows us today at the summit of Kazbek, with the whole team.

Nikita Slotin, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Kyrgyzstan:  The team "Hello, Mountain Fever" from the city of Osh! We have finally descended into civilization! It was a busy day. At first, there was a walk from Camp-1 to Base Camp, then - packing things, moving to Osh, awarding, a festive dinner, packing things again and part of the group is already flying to Moscow! The rest of the participants will also fly home soon. See you in the mountains!!!

Greetings to all from the slopes of Kazbek from "Shvili of the Mountains"! Yesterday, our team, at a good pace (in less than 7 hours), having overcome a little more than 1500 meters vertically, reached the refuge Meteostation. To our great regret, we did not have a chance to admire the surrounding beauty - rain and fog.

Today we walked to the church at 3900 meters and there we congratulated a member of our group, Alexandra, on her Birthday! We managed to get down to the weather station when it started raining again...

According to the plan, on July 29, at 2 am, we go out to storm. The group's guide is Max Shakirov.

Nastya Kuznetsova, guide of the 7 Summits Club, from Turkey:

Greetings from the slopes of Ararat!  Today there was a day of acclimatization. We climbed 4200 m to a high-altitude camp, from where tomorrow, according to the plan, we will go to the assault. The weather was favorable - the sun and a light breeze. Upon returning to the base camp at 3200, which already seems to be a resort, first there was hail (short), then rain with a rainbow and at the end of the storm with lead clouds passed by and disappeared behind Ararat.  After the descent, we prepared for tomorrow, crampons to the shoes, learned how to walk on crampons, passed a master class on tying shoelaces. At dinner, we tasted delicious dishes of Kurdish cuisine: juicy lamb, baked vegetables on coals, ayran, fresh vegetables. Your Boris Egorov and Anastasia Kuznetsova, with warm greetings from Turkey!

Vladimir Kotlyar, guide of the 7 Summits Club: The team of the 7 Summits Club  climbed on the top of Lenin Peak. The highest point was reached by six participants and three guides.