Africa - Page 29

Hello! Well so ended our fun trip to Uganda, during which we really fell in love with this country. It's so natural and very hospitable!

During the trip we visited 6 different kingdoms, in each there is its king and its language, its own capital, their customs, costumes. I want to write a lot, but tomorrow I am flying to Chile, still a lot to do. Therefore, briefly about how we had a final day in Uganda + several photos from rafting on the White Nile (they are very emotional, these pictures).

Hi! This is Alexandra Sak from Kilimanjaro. Today morning at seven, six of the eight our climbers were on the top of Uhuru. Although the mountain was not good with the weather today. First, a strong wind in the morning, then we walked as hedgehogs in a fog, and then went to grad. Now we are already in Horombo, 3700. And here, too, there is hail. So Kilimanjaro is sad. But we are quite cheerful, everything is great. With impatience we wait for tomorrow to come down to the hotel and get in the shower, lukewarm. We are all well, feel well, although a little tired. Bye-bye!

Ludmila Korobeshko sent us some pictures from the main part of the Uganda expedition. Climb of the Margheritta Peak and Bwani gorilla safari:

Hello! This is Ludmila Korobeshko from the 7 Summits Club expedition to Uganda... We are now at the top of Uganda, on the summit of Margherita Peak, at 5109 meters. Now here we are: Nadejda Voskresenskaya, to which we decided to give a medal for perseverance and courage, and bravery too. Then Dmitry Mokhnachev and Victor Serov. And another one of our friend, Anton Zelin remained in the assault camp, for health reasons. In general, everyone is happy, though very tired. Because actually the climb was rather difficult.

OK, best regards to all ! And a Happy New Year!

Seven Summits, hello! It is Alexandra Sak fromTanzania, from 3300 meters. We are on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, we are descending from the summit. Today at 8 am we were all together at the top .. All tired, but happy. Now we rest a little bit and go down lower, to the Horombo hut. You could congratulate us! Best regards! Bye, bye!

An expedition of the 7 Summits Club in Uganda today officially began. Guide and our Club Director Lyudmila Korobeshko flew to Africa with one of the most active travelers, "veteran" of the Club Victor Serov. The rest three of the trip participants are already in Uganda, they are studying crocodiles onLake Victoria. The program of the expedition includes: mountains trekking, climbing the highest peak of Margaretta in Ruwenzori massif, a visit to a friendly gorillas, rafting on the White Nile...

Great idea how to celebrate the New Year !

Aleksandra Sak – the constant guide of the 7 Summits Club on Elbrus. Now she is for the first time with group of the Club outward. Aleksandra will lead a group consisting of citizens of Kazakhstan. In group 4 members: Iskhanova Galima, Iskhanov Shamil, Gilmutdinov Robert and Gilmutdinova Adelina.

The group will go to the mountain on Marangu's route. We wish them good luck!

Guide of the 7 Summits Club Alexander Lastochkin: Hello! The day before yesterday in the evening we reached Austrian Hut, it is a hut which is assault camp for an exit toMount Kenya. Having conferred, we made the decision to go with light baggage. Earlier we assumed to spend the night in a hut at top of Nelion. As a result, in difficult weather conditions, the group reached peak Nelion, to one o'clock in the afternoon. Where, having looked round on, we understood, we made the decision on descent. Because in such weather it is impossible to risk. Safely now we finished descent and today already we move forward towards an exit from national park.

Two active member of the 7 Summits Club Natalia and Igor Smirnov came toKenya. Their tour was starting inTanzania, they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro by Machame route with local guide.

Climbing Kilimanjaro – this is not the only aim of this small team. It was acclimatization before the main task of the trip: immediately after the descent from the highest peak in Africa, December 16 , they flew to Kenya (Nairobi), where they met the guide of 7 Summits Club. It is a multiple champion of Russia on mountaineering in technical class Alexander Lastochkin. Together they plan to climb the highest point of the Mount Kenya- Batian (5199 m) . They will have to climb a fairly hard rocky route .

Natalia and Igor were with 7 Summits Club inMorocco, where climbed to the top of Jebel Toubkalin November last year. In the summer of 2013 they made the ascent oт Mont Blanc.

Hi! Dmitry Ermakov from Africa. Today, we are the full team reached the summit of Kilimanjaro and went down to Horombo Hut. The weather was good, though it was very cold ..... People had a little cold ... but I'm sure it will be cured byZanzibarquickly, as well as in safari.

Tomorrow we go down to civilization ... and our program continues. All right, Hello!

Team members: Sergei Shevchenko, Sergei Tenitsky, Roman Polanski; Polyanskaya Juliana; Pokutny Maxim; Zograbian Arman. Dmitry Ermakov - a guide of the 7 Summits Club.

Alexey Maleev, who was a member of our expedition in September, sent us pictures of Kilimanjaro. Great job!

Out very activ member, the first Russian who climbed Seven Volcanoes, Slava Adrov has visited the Africain countre of Uganda wtih its smaller kingdoms. He climbed the highedt point of Ruwenzori mountain - Peak Margeritta, then met gorillas in one of the natural reserve. During his trip Slava made a lot of observation of local ethnic culture.

The group of climbers of 7 Summits Club, consisting of 6 members: Oleg Dublennikov (St. Petersburg), Kondratieva Galina (St. Petersburg), Kondratieva Sophia (St. Petersburg), Sergei Tarasov (St. Petersburg), Kadochnikov Andrey (Moscow) and Maleev Alex (Moscow) - successfully climbed the Uhuru Peak by the Machame route.

2 persons from the team have returned home, and the remaining members continued to stay in Zanzibar after a safari through the national parks of Tanzania.

Hello Club! I'm calling you from the highest point of Congo and Uganda, the third highest mountain in Africa, Margherita peak 5110 meters, approximately. Fabulous, I must say to you, is the mountain. Most interesting is that all the fun begins from the height of Mont Blanc. And before that, it was still climbing, like as of Tete Rousse to Gouter, though shorter, just an hour. Well, in general, fabulous mountain! Fortunately, we made it. True it was in the clouds and fog. Fortunately everything turned out .. We all went down to the cabin already. This is Helena Hut, 4500. Now we catch our breath, get together and before real rain started, will run to the lower shelter. There will be overnight. Bye!

Audio in Russian:

During her research travel to Uganda and Kenia Lyudmila has climbed one of Mount Kenia peaks

MOVING MOUNTAINS: How the dream to climb the seven summits transformed in the charity Global H2O

According to his publisher's site, Outskirts Press, the summary is as follows:

Publication Date: February 12, 2013 Number of pages: 410

MOVING MOUNTAINS "The story of how my dream to climb the seven continental summits transformed into providing clean drinking water to the people of northernUganda. In 2010, I set out to climb Everest from the north side and to complete the seven summits (climbing to the summit of the highest peak on every continent). During my training in theHimalaya, I discovered the water crisis and it changed me. It was then in 2009 when I fell ill with dysentery onCho Oyu, forcing me to turn back on my attempt to reach the 6th highest peak on the planet. During the time I was sick, I encountered what most people without clean water experience on a regular basis. Upon my return home toMunich, I dedicated my climb of Everest to the water crisis and founded a 501(c)3 entity in theUSA. I focused an entire year of my life on reaching the highest point on the planet and creating an all-volunteer organization with the goal to provide clean drinking water to the people in northernUganda. What was originally a personal goal became a quest to deliver clean drinking water to the thirsty millions in war-stricken northernUganda. Through this story, the charity, Global H2O, was born." http://outskirtspress.com/moving_mountains/

James DeWitt Wilde V (born September 24, 1970) is an American sportsman, explorer and philanthropist living inMunich,Germany. On October 19, 2010, Wilde climbed Kosciuzsko inAustralia, completing his quest to climb the seven summits, becoming number 216 on the all-time Kosciuszko list.

Currently, James is working on the restructuring project of a major telecommunications operator inAngola, originally as the Head of the Finance Team and now the Executive Director of Strategy.

Apart from his native language, English, James speaks German, Portuguese, French and Russian. James has an MBA in International Business and Finance and Bachelor degrees in Journalism/Marketing as well as Business Administration.

James founded the charity Global H2O in 2009, helping to establish a means to bringing clean drinking water and developmental progress to theNorthern provincesof worn tornUganda. Since its inception, James has worked tirelessly to help the needy in his free time and most notably has completed the book, MOVING MOUNTAINS, documenting this amazing journey.

Wilde's seven summits

Aconcagua, 12/01/2006

Elbrus, 30/04/2003

Everest, 23/05/2010

Kilimanjaro, 04/11/2002

Kosciuszko, 19/10/2010

McKinley, 02/07/2004

Vinson, 02/01/2009

On Everest

Jim has participated in two expeditions 7 Summits Club on Everest. In the first one, in 2005, he could not reach the top. But he got a lot of Russian friends and a new name - "Dikiy", which appeared only as a translation of his surname. Then, in a warm international company of 7 Summits Club, headed by Lyudmila Korobeshko and Sergey Kofanov, Jim met new 2009 inAntarctica. Then he climbed to the top of the Mount of Vinson. And in 2010, he managed to make the main dream - to climb Everest. It happened on May 23, in the company of Noel Hanna, Steve Berry, Mikhail Turovsky, Andrey Filkov, Sirdar Mingma and four other Sherpas.

Everest expedition 2010

Site of James

http://jamesdewittwilde.com/

 Global H2O

http://www.globalh2o.org/

http://www.facebook.com/GlobalH2O.org

 Moving Mountains on Amazon

March 1. Olga Rumyantseva reached the summit Uhuru on Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest volcano. She climbed the route Umbve. It was not easy, because the plan was allocated to climb at 5 days. This is the second ascent on the highest volcanoes in the project “7 continents in one year alone” initiated by the Kaspersky Lab. Mount Sidley was the first, it is the tallest volcano in Antarctica. Next –Mt.Giluveon theislandofPapua-New Guinea,Australia's highest volcano.

More details:

http://7summits-club.com/newssections/all_1/newssection_151_1/item_3766/