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News: November 2011

New height of Mont Blanc and project of reconstruction of Aiguille du Midi etc ….

30/11/2011 21:33

Since 2001, each two years, in September, specially collected group rises on the highest summit of the Alpes to measure actual height of Mont Blanc. For a long time already, it is clear that it constantly changes. The configuration of a snow cap changes, exact coordinates of the highest point ...

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Kilimanjaro: Successful Climb and Long Descent

29/11/2011 11:48

Yesterday the climbers group of our 7 Summits Club expedition under leadership of guides Ludmila Korobeshko and Denis Savelyev has climbed the top of Kilimandzharo and has gone down in hotel. Almost all members have reached the highest point. Going downwards was record on time, it has ended safely ...

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Victor Bobok – «At last!»

28/11/2011 14:29

According blogs of our Norwegian colleagues and Victor's short message, the group left on a route. More than week they have spent on the basis of Union Glacier. And before the delay for a week was in in Punta Arenas. At first, the weather was bad, then malfunction of the plane, then – ...

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December, 3 the national award " Golden Ice Axe of Russia"

27/11/2011 19:38

Nominees for the national award " Golden Ice Axe of Russia" in 2011. The Expert Group of Russian Mountaineering Federation selected six nominees, contenders for the prize for the best climbing achievement in 2011: 1. Latok III, 6940 m, Pakistan, new route, the team of A. Odintsov 2. Shark Tooth, ...

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Posted by Liudmila Korobeshko and Denis Saveliev. Rain over Kilimanjaro.

25/11/2011 22:44

Today, rain fell all day. Our group rose from Mandara Hut to Horombo. Everybody wet, but came to the shelter in a good mood. In the evening all members and guides take a preventive medication. Mainly in the form of whiskey. A guide Denis Saveliev dried stuff on a local, very colorful kitchen. This ...

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In Antarctica! New Waiting … Videos from BASK Co ..

21/11/2011 14:35

On Thursday, representatives of ALE warned that we should be ready by 6 a.m. Friday. In fact, the departure from Punta Arenas took place around 3 p.m. local time. The adventures began. Our IL-76 and the flight to Antarctica, for beginners, this is a real adventure. Landing, as always, was not soft. ...

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Russian National Climbing Team is ready for their K2 winter ascent.

20/11/2011 14:48

The Russian National Climbing Team is ready for their K2 winter ascent. The Russian alpinists are striving to become the world’s first men to complete a winter ascent of K2, the planet’s most challenging and northernmost peak beyond 8,000 metres. The Russian National Team of climbers ...

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Mega Tourism Resort Project in North Caucasus

19/11/2011 15:59

PR Newswire: Mega Tourism Resort Project in North Caucasus Mountains Becomes First Russian Entry to Win a Prestigious International Commercial Real Estate Development MIPIM Award HONG KONG. /PRNewswire/ -- The development company overseeing construction of a massive system of ski, beach and natural ...

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Project "Bank Plus on top!"

18/11/2011 16:46

Project "Bank Plus on top!" begins November 23. Teams of "Plus Bank" (Russia) and JSC "Tsesnabank" (Kazakhstan) with guides of 7 Summits Club Ludmila Korobeshko and Denis Saveliev depart on an expedition to the tallest point in Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). JSC "Bank Plus" project begins to ...

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Seven Summits. New “members of the club” and new challengers

18/11/2011 03:18

  The first in Denmark ... Stina Glavind became the first woman in Denmark, which managed to complete the program "Seven Summits". July 14, 2011 she went to the finishing summit of the list - Carstensz Pyramid. She is 36 years old, grew up and lives on the island of Bornholm, far enough away ...

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Today our team reached the summit of Island Peak

15/11/2011 19:36

The beginning of a trip of our group had to travel in a period of a long bad weather. Airlift Kathmandu - Lukla was broken, hundreds of passengers were blocked  at airports. The world's leading news agencies reported that. It seemed that all the plans have failed and should concede defeat in ...

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Unplanned visit to the foot of Torres del Paine

13/11/2011 19:32

As it often happens, the schedule of departures to Antarctica isn't maintained. A departure of expedition SYDPOLEN AMUNDSEN-JUBILEUM 2011 have postponed and it is clear that for a long time. Cargo flight will be the first by turns. It delivers to the Union Glacier a heavy bulldozer for runway ...

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Simone Moro and Denis Urubko in Moscow

13/11/2011 15:43

 On Saturday evening there was a meeting with the well-known climbers  Simone Moro and Denis Urubko. It is the program The Speaker Series organized by The North Face in cooperation with the company of Jeep. In their plans to conduct such lectures with film demonstrations in the largest ...

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The seven second summits from Kammerlander

12/11/2011 01:07

Well-known climber from the Southern Tirol, a guide and the head of climbing school Hans Kammerlander (born 1956) finishes a series of trips on cities of Austria and Germany. Public lectures and performances come to an end usually with conversations with journalists. On a traditional question ...

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Artem Rostovtsev from expedition on roads of ancient Incas to Machu Pikchu

10/11/2011 22:14

The group of the 7 Summits Club has passed 9 days of trekking with day drop up to 2500 ì, passes with altitude above 4000ì. We have visited recently found out ancient constructions of Incas (cities, a fortresses, terraces on slopes for agricultural needs). It was sometimes difficult. Yesterday a ...

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Some pictures from Orizaba

10/11/2011 13:00

"Hi, Here are our photos from the Orizaba climb. Today we got to Mexico. Sports program has ended. Now we are waiting for the solid cultural and others program" Olga Rumiantseva                    

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Russian Mountain Guides Association. Problems and prospects

10/11/2011 12:41

Russian Mountain Guides Association has summed up the first two training modules that took place in June 2011 in the alpine base Bezengi. The meeting was held within the exhibition Ski Salon in Moscow. Recall, that guides of 7 Summits Club Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko, Denis Saveliev and ...

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Exhibition Project Ride The Planet Moscow, 9 - November 13, 2011

10/11/2011 11:59

This week is festive for the Russian fans of free-ride. In Moscow, the RideThePlanet project organized an exhibition of photographs and held a presentation of the film. Konstantin Galat came up with this project and successfully fulfilled it. During the first year the team of project visited four ...

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A new group 7 Summits Club on the way to Island Peak

08/11/2011 16:03

4th of November a new expedition 7 Summits Club to the Himalayas has started. The aim - Island Peak (6130 m), one of the most beautiful trekking peaks in Nepal. Lukla due the bad weather had been closed for several days. So our team rented a helicopter and flew not to Lukla, but to Karikole. Two ...

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Olga Rumyantseva, a guide and an expedition leader, by telephone from Mexico

08/11/2011 15:48

On November 7 of a 7 Summits Club team climbed the highest volcano in Mexico and all North America, Orizaba (5700m): All our members reached the summit. So we met a holiday, which was once a day on November 7. By the way, Mexico - a country of the first victorious socialist revolution. In general, ...

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