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 In September, the 7 Summits Club organizes two expeditions to Himalayan eight-thousanders Cho-Oyu and Shisha Pangma! 

 September 5^th the expedition to Cho-Oyu starts under the leadership of our Director, Lyudmila Korobeshko. The group consists of three members and a leader. And on September 10^th  Sergey Larin's team goes after them. Our irreplaceable doctor of Everest expeditions and honored guide leads the expedition to Shisha Pangma.  This will be the first attempt of the 7 Summits Club to climb this mountain.

Today, summit of Mont Blanc was conquered by the Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (59 years old). Despite the unstable weather, the group made the ascent from the hut Tete Rousse, breaking, thus, more than 1500 meters vertically. As a rule, climbs are made from a height of 3800 m from the hut Gouter. Congratulations climbers with excellent success!

A large group of the 7  Summits Club "Devil's dozen" under leadership of Ivan Dusharin climbed  Mount Kazbek!!! Hurray!

Natalia Kartashova, head of the Mountain school of the 7 Summits Club in the Crimea:

Our guests in Crimea successfully completed a three-day course on the basics of technical mountaineering. They learned how to knit knots, how to move on fixed ropes, got acquainted with the basic techniques of climbing vertical rocks. Two ascents were completed in three days - a great result!  On the second day – members climbed Mount Koshka. At the end they passed the route "Surprise" of the 2nd category of difficulty  on the steep face of Merdven-Kaya.

  We are waiting for everyone in Crimea!

Yesterday, the practical part of the joint project of blogger Oleg Maksimov and the 7 Summits Club "Way to Everest" began. Oleg came to the Elbrus region, and together with partners by the group has started to acclimatization, under the guidance of Andrey Berezin.

 The guide, Andrey Berezin:

 The group, which was named  “Vegetable Salad with Tuna", began an acclimatization rotation on the slopes of mount Cheget. The weather today allowed us to see Elbrus, on the slopes of which we are moving tomorrow.

Roman Venediktov together with ф guide of the 7 Summits Club at 6.25 am  was on top of Mont Blanc. The second member of the blitz program, who due to health (too short acclimatization) was recommended a lower object, also was not left without a summit.  The replacement of Mont Blanc was found on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. Good weather favored all climbers today.

 Today cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko with the company goes for acclimatization of the White Valley traverse. Their group moved through the tunnel to Italy, where they rose to the station Helbronner on the cable car. From there they went to the hut Cosmique, at the foot of which held snow and ice classes.

Today, a large group of climbers of the 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Ivan Trofimovich Dusharin went up for the night at the shelter weather Station. This is the starting point of the ascent to the famous Caucasian peak Kazbek. The weather is good, the participants feel great, everything is fine!

Super blitz program: Elbrus, with artificial oxygen.

17.08. Arrival in Azau at 18:00.

18.08. Obtaining equipment rentals,  cable car  for a shelter 3900 m at 11:30.

19.08.  Start at 2:00.  Departure for the ascent by snowcats. Summit at  7:00. Descent to Azau at 11:30. Transfer to the airport at 12:40. Departure from Mineralnye Vody at 17:40.

Mountaineer - Jamil from Baku. Before that, he was on Kilimanjaro, where after 5000 he did not feel very well. Plus lack of free time. So Jamil decided to order our oxygen program.

One oxygen cylinder was used completely. All went well -  without headache and ailments of the climber. A little physical fatigue on the way down. And the weather matched the forecast, the wind was strong and cold, but the climber with the oxygen  did not froze. However, little grabbed the skin on the cheeks next to the mask, as usual.

For those who continue to fight for the purity of mountaineering, despite the thirty-year development of commercial mountaineering in our country, I want to add. This climbing we  do not consider as mountaineering sport. The participant does not consider himself a climber. Those who go to Elbrus without oxygen, we did not consider as goats. Moreover  we applies with large respect, especially to those who goes from Azau with large backpacks.

Guide Sergey Larin.

Two small groups of our Club climbed today on Elbrus. They met the sunrise at the top. The weather was perfect. Andrei Berezin and Alexander Dorojukov worked  as guides.

Today, a large group (8 people + guides) climbed the legendary mountain of Kazbek. Congratulations! And thanks to our Georgian friends, guides and organizers of the climb!

This Saturday, another group, this time the largest in the season - 12 people, arrives in Tbilisi.  The famous Russian climber Ivan Dusharin will lead this team in a campaign to Kazbek.

Two groups of  the 7 Summits Club, partly united, quickly went to the Pastukhov Rocks. Tomorrow is our day off. And the day after tomorrow, if the weather permits, we will go to the summit of Elbrus. The weather is still good, let's hope we're lucky.

Vladimir Kotlyar,  guide of the 7 Summits Club from the Pamir:

Hello,  friends! Group of the 7 Summits Club under the name of "Colonizers" successfully climbed Lenin peak. Guides - Vladimir Kotlyar and Valery Myasoedov.  We caught a weather window and hit the target. And now we are rushing down to fresh lamb meat, shower and a plane HOME!

Karina Mezova, guide of the 7 Summits Club: Today, August 14^th, a group named “Children of Ilyich” of 3 people and a guide climbed the Eastern summit of Elbrus, by North face after spending a night on the rocks of Lenz. One member (for health reasons) left the climb earlier and waited for us in the base camp. Tomorrow morning - departure to Pyatigorsk.

The team of the 7 Summits Club successfully climbed summit and returns home. All alive and well. On August 12th, a group of 7 members and 3 guides climbed one of the most beautiful mountains in the world – Alpamayo. The climb was  made by a difficult route, there was a lot of blue ice.  This peak is included in our program 7 Super Mountains, to which we invite you to join.

Here is a short report of Mont Blanc ascent from our guide :

   We climbed very well, Andrey and Alice liked it. But they thought it would be easier.

On the day of the ascent we managed to slip into the weather window, all clearly on time. When we went down the weather deteriorated, and then no one could reach the top.  We spent a night on the descent in the hut Gouter. The next day we went down by snow-covered and sometimes icy rocks…

Hello! This is Dos Piskas  team from Peru, Alexander Abramov. Today, at exactly 8 am, our team climbed to the top of Alpamayo.  The summit is small, so all climbers could not get together. We came in groups of 3-4 people. The weather was great, which helped us, of course.  It was very cold and difficult.  Just below the middle of the route there was still snow, and then went completely bare ice.  For many, it was a very difficult test. But, nevertheless, all people have shown themselves very well.

 The mountain is one of the seven in our project "SuperMountains", which includes technical routes, most famous, most beautiful, unique on the continent (Matterhorn, Ama Dablam, El Capitan, Mount Cook, Kenya, Ulvetanna).  

 Now we have already descended to the assault camp and begin descent further down.

Valery Tebiev: We made the traverse of Elbrus from South to North in the worst weather of those days that we were on the mountain. But there was no choice. We started at 10 PM, from the Refuge. At 5 am we were on the saddle. By this time the snow has added more wind. At 7 am we were on the Western summit. At 8 45 we started the ascent to the Eastern summit and by 11 o'clock we were at the goal. At this time the wind was already very strong. Friends helped me to make a photo with a flag. This is Alexey Artobolevsky and Alexander Sosnin. In the camp at 3800 on the North side we came to 15 30.

 Thus, Valery Tebiev successfully implements his project "Four mountains during the summer". Four mountains are: Demavend (5671m), Aragats (4090m), Kazbek (5033m) and Elbrus (5642m).

 Valery began his project with Iran, from the summit of the volcano Demavend (5671 m), the highest in Iran and Asia, which is part of the project 7 Volcanoes. In mid-June, as part of the team of the 7 Summits Club, in difficult weather conditions, Valery climbed to the top of Demavend.

 The route to mount Aragats in Armenia began with a tour of the Amberd fortress and overnight on Kari lake.

  On August 2th  Valery climbed the highest, Northern, peak of Aragats mountain (4090 m).

 The day after the ascent, Valery flew to Tbilisi. He then moved to the town Kazbegi and immediately began climbing Mount Kazbek. 6 Aug Valery Tebiev successfully reached the summit!

And the project was completed at 10^th of August.

Andrey Berezin, the main guide of the 7 Summits Club in Elbrus:

Today, the Wild Muflons group has climbed to the Western summit of Elbrus, all participants have reached the highest point. On the way to the top we met with snow and wind, and with low temperatures. But our group has successfully overcome these obstacles. Congratulations to the whole group with the ascent!

 Anastasia Dobrovolskaya at the top completed work on the painting on the top of Elbrus... This is the first picture painted on the highest mountain in Europe and Russia.

 Anastasia Dobrovolskaya:

Today I cried, cried for joy. Friends, I didn't believe that I managed it. There is the world's first painting on top of Elbrus!

 We are tired. The ascent did not last long, but it was not easy.

Thank you all so much for the support you sent me, I couldn't have done it without you!

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov, Dos Piskas group, climbing Alpamayo. Yesterday we went from the Camp Ruin Pampa at an altitude of 3900 meters to the base camp of Alpamayo at 4400 meters. Yesterday we were supposed to see the beautiful view of the Alpamayo.  But ... it's raining and snowing!

Valdis Pelsh's crew joined the Russian climbers' expedition to Everest, in order to climb the highest mountain in the world. The first expedition was interrupted by a series of earthquakes. In 2016 the group returned to the foot of Everest to tell the story of the conquests and to show the whole process of climbing the main peak on planet Earth. GENRE: documentary with elements of reality show DIRECTOR: Kristina Kozlova HOST: Valdis Pelsh Year of release: 2017