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Best pictures from Kilimanjaro expedition. A report from 7 Summits Club climber from 1-8th February expedition on Kilimanjaro:

Vadim Khayrullin reports from Tanzania: For us it took 6.5 hours to climb from the assault camp to Uhuru Peak. We left at 00.00 and at 6.30 we were at the top. There was no snow on the top, just a light breeze and the temperature of -15 degrees .....

But we did it! Dawn at the top of Kilimanjaro is something special !!!!

The group climbed the Marangu route: Maria Vorotyagina, Vadim Khayrullin and Vladimir from Ukraine.

A Guide of the 7 Summits Club Anastasia Kuznetsova from Tanzania: Now one group of our Club is on the Marangu route. This is Maria Vorotyagina with Vadim Khayrullin and Vladimir from Ukraine. Today the team went to the refuge Horombo (3800 m) and tomorrow they plan to rise to the assault camp Kibo (4800 m) to climb the highest peak in Africa, the Kilimanjaro.

The weather is good, the team is excellent and in a good mood.

I said farewell to them in the first camp Mandara Hut to went down to Moshi. There I was engaged in preparing for the reception of the next of our group, this time - on the Umbwe route.

A group of the Paganel Club climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in November 2014. Pictures made by its leader Andrey Andreev from Crimea:

Hello, Seven Summits! This is Artem Rostovtsev, from Nairobi. The whole group is in the hotel, I hope that everyone took a shower. And now we could say that we have a our successful ascent, it ended. All are happy that had been on Mount Kenya. Really we liked it. Many of the participants were in general the first time in the mountains. In the next two days we will have a Safari in the Masai Mara national Park.

Hello, Seven Summits Club! This is Artem Rostovtsev speaking from the top of Lenana, Lenana peak of Mount Kenya. It says here that the height is 4985 meters. The local time is exactly 8-20. 3 hours 15 minutes ago, we went out of the hut, all made it safely to the top, all who came.... .... We went down. The weather was wonderful, the sun is shining. All are very happy that we got it, begin of descent ... to 3200...

A group of Vladimir and Victor Yaroshenko, Alexey Sushkova successfully climbed the highest peak in Africa - Kilimanjaro by Marangu route. Congratulations to our friends!

Vladimir and Victor have already returned home. In one month, they made the ascent at once on two highest peaks - Europe and Africa. Now we are waiting for a detailed report and photos from them.

Alexei Sushkov now continues to travel to the national parks of Tanzania and plans to continue the program in Zanzibar.

August 4, two new groups of the 7 Summits Club began programs of climbing Kilimanjaro. They go on different routes - Machame and Marangu. Alexander Agueyev (Volgograd), Vasily Yanivets and Sergey Chuvilev from Moscow are on the Machame route. After the mountains, they will continue to travel and go on trips to the national parks of Tanzania.

Brothers Victor and Vladimir Yaroshenko from Moscow and Alexey Sushkov from St. Petersburg chosen Marangu route. Interestingly, that Victor and Vladimir have just returned from Elbrus, where they were preparing for the ascent to the highest peak in Africa.

Seven Summits, hello! This is Dima Ermakov from Tanzania. Today, we all climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. The weather was beautiful, now we're going down. Everything is fine. Particularly it pleased that all this happened in my son's birthday. What all together we are sending him our congratulations! In general, all is well with us. Hopefully tomorrow we will be at the hotel.

Group members: Philip Lerman, Irina Bykhovskaya and Mikhail Okolokulak.

Seven Summits, hello! This Tanzania, Horombo hut. Very tight-knit group we have today ... We all reached the top of Uhuru Peak, all are in excellent condition. Now we are almost down to Horombo hut. We stand 100 meters above. We've got a connection with our guiding company, therefore, we decided to call you now. Tomorrow our mountainous part is over, clients go through a day on safari. Once more - hello! Artem Rostovtsev.

Members of thr 7 Summits Club Natalia and Igor Smirnov climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in november of 2013 by Machame route.

An expedition of the Belarusian company GURTAM took place at 22-28th of February. They climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and have a business-confernce in hotel. Alexandra Sak was a guide of the group.

Just called Artem Rostovtsev . The group of Artem is OK, they went down to 4000 m. In the morning, they were on the SUMMIT!. There was very strong wind . But … all right. Today, they descend to Mweka. Tomorrow I meet them at the Mweka gate.

And about the group without our guide, who arrived in Tanzania on 24th of February. Two members - Yangirov Nail and Galia already flown home. Beymuratovy Camille and Victoria went on safari Prokuschenko Sergey is now near poolside at the hotel.

All are happy

Hello! This is Alexander Sack Kilimanjaro. This morning we climbed to the highest point of Kilimanjaro Uhuru Peak. There was a strong wind and very beautiful sunrise. We all tired, but very happy. Now we are descending to Horombo. Have dinner and go to bed. Bye, bye!

Hi! This is Artem Rostovtsev, guide of the 7 Summits Club. We are now at the Marangu Gate. Just 5-10 minutes and we quietly go up along the standard, all favorite route Marangu. We will have to spend the night on the 2700 Mandara hut. Hello!

The group consists of four members: Alexey Ponomarev, Cyril Vdovin, and Arkady Dudin and Catherine Lunegova.

Audio (In Russian):

Hi! This is a guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Sack  from Tanzania. Today, 35 of the 36 members of our expedition were at the top of Kilimanjaro. With the weather we were lucky. The mountain was in a good mood. In general, all participants are happy, though tired . Now we get down below in Mweka camp. Tomorrow we plan to go down already in civilization, in Moshi. All is well, all right. Hello! Bye!

"Sparta - a project for men to develop confidence and overcome fears.

For 4 years we spent Sparta project more than 140 training programs in Russia and the CIS, and alumni of the project were about 4,000 people from dozens of cities. "

Here you can find more information about the project - http://spartarussia.ru/index.php

Top coaches project Sparta Anton Razor (Rudanov) and Ed Halimov headed group climbed Kilimanjaro

Hello! Today we begin our first expedition on Kilimanjaro organizing by our new Tanzanian office. This will be a record by number of participants expedition. 36 young climbers (Spartans) from different cities of Russia ! They arrived today from different parts of Tanzania and even Kenya. Clear, that the day before they arrived in Africa from Russia.

A few hours later we were at the gates of the National Park at Machame Gate. Our young Spartans went to the assault of the "roof of Africa" on the beautiful Machame route. By the way, many of them decided to go in sporty style - with heavy backpacks, without using " slave labor ", as they said.

Wait for messages from the mountain on the further adventures of the Spartans from the guide of 7 Summits Club Sasha Sac!

Luda Korobeshko

Lyudmila Korobeshko: Hello from Tanzania! Today the group of 36 people under the leadership of our representative in Tanzania and our guide Sasha Sak goes to a way!

The expedition starts from here - from a cafe Union...

And we open representation of the 7 summits Club in Tanzania...

On a photo - Sasha at Tanzanian office...

Ludmila Korobeshko: «Well, so ended our fun trip to Uganda, during which we really fell in love with this country. It's real and very hospitable!

During the trip we visited 6 different kingdoms, in each of its king and its language, its own capital, their customs, costumes. I want to write a lot, but...»

While let talk pictures.

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Journey to Uganda was held in the new year period 2013-2014. It consisted of three major parts:

(1) Mountain Rwenzori massif, with the ascent to the highest point - peak Margheritta (5109 m).

(2) Visiting the national Park Bwindi in search of traces of the silvery gorillas.

(3) Rafting on the White Nile.