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18/12/2008 00:50
On December 12, five more members of 7 Summits Club stood on top of Mount Vinson in Antarctica: Segey Lavrov, Yaroslav Sabyrbaev, Konstantin Morozov, Vladimir Aristarkhov and the guide - Sergey Kofanov (he has just finished climbing 7 Summits by standing on top of Mount Vinson). It took the group 7 ... Details » |
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11/12/2008 13:37
December, 9. Alex Abramov from Antarctica: This evening a group of the 7 Summits-Club leading by Alex Abramov has climbed at the highest summit of Antarctica. Thus Sergey Larin finished 7 Summits project. Less than ten people in Russia who have completed this project. Now, Sergey Larin, one of them. ... Details » |
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04/12/2008 22:24
30 November team leading by Alexander Abramov successfully got to the white continent after two days of waiting flying weather. They stayed at the Patriot Hills but next day they visited the South Pole, where they spent several exciting hours. They viewed the American station Amudsen-Scott and then ... Details » |
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24/11/2008 00:13
November, 22. Today started the unique expedition of 7 Summits Club to Antarctica under Alex Abramov leadership. Three groups are take part in the expeditions. More than 20 people will try to climb Vinson Massif - the highest peak of Antarctica. Vinson Massif expedition is very interesting and ... Details » |
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10/11/2008 16:41
November, 9 Today Sergey Kofanov (7 Summits Club Guide) called from Carstensz Pyramid top. He and Vladimir Stepashko have climbed the highest peak of Oceania! This climbing is a sort of record because: 1. The route Nabire-Base camp- Carstensz Pyramid- Base camp- Nabire took less than 24 hour.2. ... Details » |
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08/11/2008 17:21
November, 7. Three members of the Seven Summits Club has climbed Carstenzs Pyramid (4884 m). One of them was Olga Boreikina. Now she is the first Russian woman who has climbed the highest peak of Oceania! Congratulations!! Olga Boreikina Details » |
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08/11/2008 17:10
November, 7. We got a massage from Horombo. Seven Summits Club guide Maxim Bogatirev wrote: Today a group of the 7Summits-Club has climbed the highest point of Africa. It took 7 hours and it was very cold but all members now feel well. Today these persons stood on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro: Patric ... Details » |
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03/11/2008 16:12
5 days ago the expedition of “7 Summits Club” under the leadership of Sergey Kofanov (“Seven Summits Club guide, twice Everest Summiter) arrived in Nabire (Papua New Guinew, Indonesia). They are planning to climb one of the most difficult to reach summits – Carstenzs Pyramid ... Details » |
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22/10/2008 17:31
In a week the new 7 Summits Club expedition is coming to Papua to climb Carstensz Pyramid. Sergey Kofanov - expedition guide - leaves earlier to buy a helicopter for the group to fly directly to Carstensz Base Camp. Several days earlier Alex Abramov had a meeting with Sergey Kofanov in 7 Summits ... Details » |
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01/09/2008 18:10
7 Summits Club and "Taras Bulba" chain restaurants are launching the first stage of Round the world tour on 2 jeeps. The forst stage is over 12 000 km from Moscow to Vladivostok and on from there to Kamchatka across the sea. Part of this project is climbing Kluchevskaya Sopka and Koryakinskiy volcano Details » |
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20/08/2008 12:14
26 July Russian helicopter MI-8 crushed on Elbrus West Rige. Alex Abramov was inside. It is second accident from 1991 year. In 1991 8 people were killed. But this time everybody is alive. The team of 9 climbers flew to west part of Elbrus massif - Kukurtlu summit 4700m. It is 1000m vertical wall ... Details » |
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22/07/2008 16:02
Alexander Abramov is on the Caucasus now. He works for organisation of a base-jump from the shoulder of Elbrus for a team of Valery Rozov. The elevation of that steep western face (Kiukiurtliu Wall) of Elbrus is about 800 meters, from them almost 500 - vertical wall. Alexander has been invited in ... Details » |
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08/07/2008 17:48
The Tibetan Environmental Protection Bureau has announced the closure of the northern side of Mount Everest in an effort to clean up the rubbish abandoned on the mountain. New restrictions on the north face of Everest may be imposed next spring to facilitate cleanup operations on the highest ... Details » |
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07/07/2008 17:25
On July, 6th a group of the 7Summits-Club has climbed the highest point of Northern America (Mt. Denali 6194 meters). By the evening all participants have safely gone down to the assault camp on height of 5100 meters. Igor Pohvalin, 50-years doctor-surgeon from Simferopol, became the next conquerer ... Details » |
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16/06/2008 15:36
NALCHIK, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Elbrus rescuers are searching for a Novosibirsk snowboarder who got missing at the altitude of about 4,500 meters on Pastukhov Cliffs on June 13. His name is Alexei Tkachenko, born in 1976. “Twenty-eight rescuers of the Elbrus territorial unit are searching the ... Details » |
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13/06/2008 16:58
Results of the national contest Seven Wonders of Russia have been summarized in the Red Square, Moscow. They are as follows: Valley of Geysers, Lake Baikal, Petergof, Manpupuner Rock Towers, Saint Basil`s Cathedral, Mamayev Kurgan and statue The Motherland Calls, as well as Mount Elbrus. The contest ... Details » |
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11/06/2008 16:23
Elbrus Land Rover must be back On the 60th anniversary of Land Rover we would like to recollect this record of 1997 and to remind society about it. The history 11 years ago, on the 13th of September a car “Land Rover Defender - 90” stood on East summit of Mt.Elbrus. The idea to bring a ... Details » |
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07/06/2008 13:27
AAI just received the following email from the NPS on Denali. None of our climbers or guides were involved in this incident: Denali mountaineering rangers led a life-saving technical rope rescue of a fallen solo climber on Mt. McKinley the evening of June 3. Claude Ratté, age 44, of Montreal, ... Details » |
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14/05/2008 11:26
THT OnlineKathmandu, May 14 Record-holder climber Appa Sherpa has joined the Eco Everest Expedition at the Khumbu region and is likely to accompany the team to the top of the world. "Appa did not have any plan to scale Mt Everest this season but when he heard of the Eco Everest Expedition and its ... Details » |
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13/05/2008 11:43
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal has decided that May 29 -- the day the world`s highest peak was first conquered in 1953 -- will be marked as International Mount Everest Day, tourism officials said Friday. "The government has decided to commemorate the historic first ascent. This year will be the first ... Details » |
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