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28/02/2007 10:24
As of Tuesday rescuers have managed to save all three mountain climbers who were lost from their group while descending the Kamen Mountain in the Kamchatka region on Sunday. Nine mountain climbers from Primorye, Moscow and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were descending from Kamchatka’s Kamen ... Details » |
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24/02/2007 13:34
IOC Evaluation Commission Departs Sochi Praising Strong Public Support and Unique Bid Assets 23.02.07 The International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission concluded its visit to Sochi today by praising the strong support for the Sochi 2014 bid among the Russian public, the government, the ... Details » |
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20/02/2007 13:12
BOULDER, Colo.-(Business Wire)-February 20, 2007 - On Jan. 25, 2007, Sean Swarner, a two-time cancer survivor, successfully reached the summit of Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica. The 16,067-foot climb marked the sixth summit in Swarner`s quest to become the first two-time cancer ... Details » |
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13/02/2007 13:53
February, 13.The message from Argentina. 3:37 Moscow time. Ludmila Korobeshko: So today we, 17 persons, that is practically all expedition members, climbed on the summit of Mount Aconcagua. We have left in 7:30 mornings, in four afternoon we were at the top and in seven - eight have returned to the ... Details » |
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11/02/2007 21:26
Yesterday,on the 10 th of February, we went from the base camp Plaza de Mulos and made an ascent up to the camp Nido de Condores ,on a hight of 5400 m. We overcame more than one thousand m on a vertical. On Nido de Condores we met Volodya Solovyv. That day he had a lucky overcame on the mountain ... Details » |
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10/02/2007 10:31
Adventure sports trainer and endurance athlete Noel Hanna has embarked on a 24-month world record challenge - to scale the world`s highest mountains in each continent, followed by the fastest descent to sea level from each peak. Noel (above) from Dromara, Co Down, began the challenge in January ... Details » |
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09/02/2007 21:35
This winter was unusually warm in Moscow, there was almost disaster in the Alps. But we could see that in other regions the global warming was not so obvious. For example, in Antarctica there was the worst ever weather with big snowfalls. And in Kilimanjaro we saw the biggest snow cover for many ... Details » |
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07/02/2007 12:18
January, 6. Our expedition spent a night in the Canada Camp, 4900 m. It is our first acclimatization outing. Now one member Vladimir Kuznetsov has left expedition, he has a pneumonia. General information: A group of Russian alpinists who have become the latest ambassadors will soon embark on an ... Details » |
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05/02/2007 00:54
Part 4. Trip To The South Pole Following the killings of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former security services officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, the FSB has also been in dire need of an image makeover. And, like the Kremlin and Gazprom, it too has initiated a public-relations campaign, although its ... Details » |
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01/02/2007 09:35
January, 30 a big group of climbers of thå Seven Summits Club has gone to South America. 17 members and 2 guides (Lyudmila Korobeshko and Sergey Kofanov) plan to climb the highest summit of the South America, Mount Aconcagua. Originally we planned to fly directly in Mendoza, whence an ascent ... Details » |
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