Today, as planned, we moved "into the fields". We have reached our usual base, near the Elbrus Lake. The climb took place at a calm pace, everyone feels good, the mood is excellent. The bivouac is set up, dinner is cooked!

Your guides: Alexey Lonchinsky and Dmitry Semenov.

 The Order of the Seven Summits is an honorary award to climbers who have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents of our planet. In total, there are almost half a thousand people who have completed it.  There are already about fifty of them in the list of Russians. The first number in it is the famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, who completed the program back in 1997.

  The presentation of the badge of honor, which is called the order, is a long-standing idea of the president of the 7 Summits Club company, Alexander Abramov, who, by the way, has already completed the program three times. Finally, the idea that the climbers of the "SevenSummits" are worthy of a separate award has been brought to life.  And the heroes who have passed through all continents, climbed to their highest peaks, received a beautiful order!  The 7 Summits Club plans to make the solemn procedure of awarding the Seven Summits Orders traditional. After all, the award can only be received in person, not everyone could be in Moscow that evening. Well, we are waiting for new heroes, the mountains are calling and waiting for us!

 The list of climbers who received the order (themselves or through family representatives):

Konyukhov Fyodor

Moskalev Dmitry

Abramov Alexander

Korobeshko Lyudmila

Bobok Victor

Ashurli Israfil

Larin Sergey

Kofanov Sergey  

Prinzyuk Igor

Turovsky Mikhail

Podolyan Andrey

Sokov Dmitry

Simonovich Vitaly

Filkov Andrey

Kadochin Igor

Dudko Sergey

Krasnov Dmitry

Dmitriev Sergey

Kravt Evgeny

Bautin Alexey

Balakin Alexey

Tertychny Alexander

Tertychny Dmitry

Sadetsky George

Belkovich Vladimir

Semeshkin Kirill

Lachkarev Vladislav

Popov  Alexander

Rostovtsev Artem

Zisman Irina

Gurgov Yuri.

Alexey Lonchinsky, coach, guide of the 7 Summits Club from the Elbrus region: Good afternoon! Our team successfully spent last night at the refuge, and Igor Kamynin spent that night in a comfortable snow cave made by us day before! In the morning, we continued training on snow, and mastered the skills of building wind protection snow walls. In the afternoon we went down to the Azau Glade. At this point, all the tasks of the preparation courses for climbing Mount Everest, Denali and Antarctica can be considered successfully completed!!!

The course participants practiced on technical snow climbing skills and belay on snow slopes, basic skills of climbing on ice in crampons, organization of belay on ice screw, climbing with fixed lines. The participants learned how to set up a tent camp in the snow, build protective wind walls from firn blocks, tear off and equip snow caves.

There are video fragments of the ascent on Denali of the team of the 7 Summits Club. June-July 2019. The author, who is also the expedition leader, Alexander Abramov. It was the successful completion of his project "Seven summits in seven months" with over-fulfillment of the plan. It turned out – for 6 months.

The team of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of its President Alexander Abramov in full, 13 people, climbed to the top of Denali on Sunday, July 7th at 8 PM. As a result, three people completed the "Seven summits": Vladimir Kotlyar, Irina Zisman and Vasily Shakhnovsky.  Alexander Abramov did it for the third time. This time – in record time – all "seven summits" for 6 months and 1 day.

We feel ourselves very good, we have already gone down to the camp 17000. And tomorrow we start the descent down. Everyone's happy. All right,  bye!

 And we have to plan tomorrow a day of rest. 6yh of July, the entire team must climb to the assault camp.  And the 7th to climb to the top. According to the forecast, the best weather is the 6th and 7th. So let's hope that we will succeed.

 Listen to the audio message (in Russian):

Tomorrow - strengthening of snow, increase of wind. In General, we will look, dig ourselves. But by the weekend, by the 6th and 7th as we planned, by our ascent, the weather should, like, get better. 

Lots of hugs for everyone! Hot, warm greetings from Alaska!

Audio in Russian:

  Hello! Alexander Abramov from Alaska, from the Denali expedition.  Once again I remind, we have 10 Russian members and three American guides. Of our ten members we also have three guides of the 7 Summits Club and I, Alexander Abramov, as the head of the expedition. Today we are at a very good pace dragged loads from the camp 8000  to the camp 11000. That is, it was a height difference of almost one kilometer. We walked with heavy backpacks for four hours and forty minutes.  It's fast. Then we went down to the camp at 8000. The camp is in a beautiful place here, very warm, even hot at times. But we know that after a while all this, of course, will end. Tomorrow we will move our camp from 8000 to 11000 feet. We will also spend two more nights there.

 The weather is good, but promise deterioration.  All, Bye!

 Listen to the audio message (in Russian):

 We are in Talkeetna. We leave for the glacier in 30 minutes. All loads is collected and packed.

 The departure to the glacier is preceded by a mandatory briefing, during which all the mandatory rules of conduct in the National Park during the ascent to Denali are explained. The harsh laws of a liberal country!

The members of the 7 Summits Club expedition flew in a plane around Mount Denali, the purpose of their trip to Alaska. The view is stunning, breathtaking and unique.

 Hello from Alaska!  Today  there was a long day. We met all the members of the group, solved the problems with equipment and food, visited the local cult bar. Tomorrow we fly to the glacier and  for 2 weeks we will be without Internet.

 By the way, the whole second floor of the bar is dedicated to Russia.

 A team of 10 members flies to Alaska to climb Mount Denali. This is our last group of the season. We are the last of all in the summer of 2019.  We hope to meet no one but polar bears.

This climb will be last in the project of Alex Abramov "Seven summits in seven months"

 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:

Hello, friends! We are continuing our expedition to Denali. It came already in the final stage. Today we worked hard and moved to the assault camp. On the way we took the depot. We had to walk for a long time, because backpacks were too heavy - 25 pounds plus. But now we can safely live here for a few days. But the plan is not to delay. Tomorrow we will have a little rest and the day after tomorrow we plan to climb to the summit.

  The weather is still promised to be good. If we hadn't promised for long – we would have gone tomorrow. And so there is a chance to rest a little more, to accumulate strength and already with new forces to reach the highest point.

 Best regards!

 Listen to the audio message in Russian:

Our friend, the Ecuadorian guide Edgar Parra, coming down from the top of Denali, filmed our group led by guide Artem Rostovtsev..

 Artem Rostovtsev, guide of 7 summits Club.

We finally moved up to the high camp. The weather here in the mountains is like the weather in mountains. For 20 minutes, the temperature can change from plus twenty to minus twenty. But we have learned to exist in these conditions. Moving and arrangement of the camp - this is our work. We all like it very much. Some members even hope to lose weight. ... Plans...to take a little rest and move higher. The summit is waiting.

Denali 2018. The team is in full combat readiness (low start) before leaving for the glacier Kahiltna. We fly fed, equipped - in white snow fields. For the first couple of days, the weather is not very good, but we will be on top. So there is no reason to worry.

Mikhail Kornev, a member of the group: the Rangers were tortured with instructions. Nothing can be done, their mountain - their rules.

We leave in three hours. Our team is excellent, the mood is great.

Our Denali expedition started. Yesterday, late in the evening, our entire Russian-Brazilian group finally gathered in Anchorage.  By the night we managed to recover, shake up the equipment, plan the morning purchases. This morning we are already moving towards our goal - Denali. We take radio with us to listen to football broadcasts.

 Alex - a man who knows how to achieve his goal and we have no doubt that he will continue to travel with us and climb to new heights.

Best of luck, health to you and your loved ones!

 Kilimanjaro - 19.08.2010

Aconcagua – 17.01.2011

Kosciusko – 30.12.2011

Vinson - 22.12.2013

Everest – 25.05.2014

Elbrus - 11.06.2016

Denali – 20.06.2017

Alexei 40 years, he is a native of the city of Yartsevo, Smolensk region. A civil engineer by profession. He recently assumed duties as Head of the administration of Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region.

Message from Lyudmila Korobeshko: at four o'clock in the evening in Alaska, the entire our team reached the summit of Denali !!!!  All six members and three guides. The team is now on the descent to the High camp...

 Later: the team went down to the High camp. All is OK. Tomorrow they go down to the camp 4200 and the day after tomorrow the plan is to reach the base camp. And in good weather you can fly directly to Talkeetna.

 We congratulate Aleksey Bautin with the completion of the program "Seven summits"!

Good day! This is Lyudmila Korobeshko from the expedition to Denali. Today, June 17, we did a deposit above fixed ropes, for five thousand meters. Weather allowed to do it. According to the plan we were going to do it yesterday, but yesterday there was a very heavy snowfall. Today we did a deposit, and we have just returned. In principle, the weather is not bad but a bit strange. Cloudy with occasional snow sprinkles. That is, the immediate plans we have:  tomorrow or day after tomorrow we want to go to high camp and, accordingly,  it will be  19th or 20th for a summit bid. All  members  and guides feel good, all is OK....  Greetings!

Hello! It is again Lyudmila Korobeshko from the expedition to Denali. Today, June 16th, we have still 16 June, evening. According to the plan we had to do deposit in the High camp. But we woke up almost under two-meter layer of snow, and snowfall did not stop before lunch. A lot of snow fall. Of course, in this weather it was impossible to go up. So we had to make a forced rest day. After lunch the weather improved. Accordingly, a lot of people came down from the upper part, but most of them probably without the top.

In general, all our members  feel good, all full of hope for a successful ascent. Best regards!

 And several days ago, Lyudmila Korobeshko has read in our Club a lecture about features of climbing the mountain Denali.

Sergey Larin:  Hi,  Seven Summits Club! You can congratulate us - we are in Talkeetna! Coming on the 24th of June in the 12 days of the camp at 5200, at 7 am on June 25, we were in the base camp, at the airport…

June 23 the group was at the top of Mount Denali. Congratulations to the heroes: Valery Tebiev,  Dmitry Tomilin, Irina Redina, Yury Zimin, Paul Kostrikin,  Sergei Shilkin and the guide Sergey Larin!

Hi Seven Summits! Take the information from Denali. Yesterday, June 16^th, our team has made a depot in the assault camp at 5200. Today we had a day of rest. Tomorrow the plan was a way up. But the outing  is delayed due to bad weather. Due to the poor prognosis. We will wait for the weather, as is often in high-altitude mountaineering.

The state of health of group members is good, as well as mood.

Bye! Sergey Larin.

Hello, Seven Summits! Take the information from Denali. Our expedition on Denali goes on, everything is going according to the plan. We arrived on the glacier at 4 pm June 8th. In the morning on June 9 th, we woke up to go to the first camp. And we have successfully done,  9th of June we reached the first camp. It was tough, because we came with a full load. Today we made depot on  the 3000 meters. Now we return to the first camp, and according to the plan we have tomorrow output in the second camp, but now with a lighter load. Next we'll look at the weather and the state of the route. That is, everything goes according to plan, it's okay.  Bye!

Listen to an audio message (in Russian):

Good morning, Seven Summits Club! It is Sergey Larin. Best regards from Alaska! Our expedition on  Denali starts. Today the whole group arrived in Talkeetna. Now you in Moscow  have a morning and we go to bed.

Tomorrow we will have a difficult day of training and, if the weather allows, we have to fly in 15.30 to the glacier Kahiltna. Prior to this, in three days  planes did not fly to the glacier. Today is the first day. After the break, the aircraft departed  and trampled the runway for us.

We hope for the best! Bye! Sergej Larin.

 Leader od the team - Sergey Larin (5-times summiter on Mount Everest) ...

 Participants of the expedition:

 - Irina Redina;

- Dmitry Tomilin;

- Valery Tebiev;

- Yury Zimin;

- Paul Kostrikin;

- Sergey Shilkin.

Today, the whole team is going to meet in Anchorage (Alaska). Tomorrow, June 7, it is scheduled a transfer to Talkeetna. June 8th to the plan the group will fly to the Kahiltna Glacier.

We wish the team luck and the weather!

Currently, only 18% of climbers, that completed the program, reached the summit of Denali. Now on the mountain, it is more than 500 climbers. In early June fell "big snow" - about one meter.

Caught in the storm on Squirrel hill

Victory Dinner

Berdychowski Zygmunt was born in 1960 in Krynica Zdroj (Poland) and now faithfully serves his native region. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law, was active in Solidarity, was a member of parliament of two convocations, worked in the Ministry of Agriculture. In recent years, Berdychowski engaged in development of the resort of Krynica Zdroj, Economic and Energy Forum and Running Festival.

Video with Zygmunt Berdychowski

Elbrus

Carstensz

Aconcagua

Hello! This is Ludmila Korobeshko, I report from the expedition on McKinley (Denali). Today, as planned, we went into the assault camp (High camp) at 5200. In general, the weather in the morning was quite cold, but the fixed ropes it was warmer. However, when we reached the ridge leading to the camp, we got a strong wind. We came to the camp almost in a snowstorm, there was nothing to be seen. We walked for a long time, about 9-10 hours. We went out in 10 a.m. and came probably after 7 p.m.
Now we put the camp, sitting in tents. Strong wind, no visibility. While we will watch the weather. It is difficult to have any plans to build. ... But in general everything is fine, all people went into the camp, all are healthy.
Best regards!

Good afternoon! Ludmila Korobeshko reports from the expedition to McKinley. We are now in Camp Ranger, at 4300 ... Today, June 30th, we have a day of rest. Yesterday we nade a depot, as planned in the assault camp. In fact, the day was quite heavy. We woke up early, but it was very cold at night, probably minus twenty. So we decided to wait for the sun, and only 11 a.m. we left the camp. Gone with fixed ropes and a little more along the ridge to Washburn’s Thumb. We returned happy but tired. So today the rest is very logical. In addition, the snow began at night ... We rest, look at weather forecasts and are already preparing for a summit bid. As soon as the window will appear, we will try to go upstairs to the assault camp, well, then, according the weather - on the ascent. All members feel good. Best regards!

Thanks!

We once again congratulate the climbers!

Well done, definitely!

Hello! There is Ludmila Korobeshko from the expedition to McKinley. Today we had a day of adventure, so to speak. And the Mount showed to some extent, a difficult character. It all started as usual on the plan, as we planned. At 4 am we went out and walked through Windy Corner, we went to the place of getting a depot. And as we walked quickly and vigorously, we decided to bring our depot even to the Camp Ranger. We dug in it and on the way back, near Windy Corner, a strong wind started ... and also started a blizzard, snow. And all this went on until the camp. With difficulty we have found in this blizzard our camp. We were happy that we managed to do. The weather turned bad and our plans may change, but we have time to spare. Bye!