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Ambitious Strategy for the North Caucasus from Vladimir Putin

12/10/2010 08:24

Russia - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting of the Supervisory Board of Vnesheconombank. “In the Strategy for the North Caucasus Federal District we have set ourselves a series of tasks. The most important of them is to help elevate this region…To achieve this, a large ...

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A group of Alexander Abramov rescued Polish climbers on Elbrus

28/09/2010 11:50

A group of climbers 7 Summits Club on Sept. 23 flew to the Caucasus, and had settled in the hotel Povorot in Terskol. September, 24 they made acclimatization outing up to the Pastukhov Rocks. September, 25 in the morning the team started the Elbrus climb. In the group were: Alexander Abramov ...

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Records on Elbrus, Polish climbers have reached a new level

26/09/2010 09:21

Records on Elbrus, Polish climbers have reached a new levelPress Release Competition Elbrus Race September, 24  International Elbrus Race competitions were held on the slopes of Mount Elbrus. Competitions in speed, sky running on the highest peak of Europe held  sixth year in a row, ...

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Saddle of Elbrus: probably the highest refuge in the world is opened

07/09/2010 16:47

Heroic work of enthusiasts supported by sponsors were not in vain. 1th of September at an altitude of 5300 meters it was opened a mountaineering refuge, the highest in Europe, and probably in the world. This is an elegant half-sphere, which is placed in the bottom part of the saddle of Elbrus. It is ...

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Group of Everest Women Seven Summits Eco-Action at the top of Mount Elbrus

31/08/2010 11:49

August 29, our team climbed the summit of Western Elbrus. Early in the morning nine climbing women from Nepal and three guides from the 7 Summits Club (Alexander Abramov, Lyudmila Korobeshko and Tatiana Stukalova) stood on the highest point in Europe (5642 meters). The weather was favorable for a ...

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Children of adventurers go to Elbrus with their parents

28/08/2010 19:00

August, 25th the group of mountaineers of different ages under the direction of Maxim Bogatirev has climbed the Eastern Top of Elbrus from the northern side. That’s a usual situation when children of alpinists follow in their parents’ footsteps and start going to the mountains. For ...

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First acclimatization outing for Nepalese Women team

26/08/2010 20:23

Today a group of Nepalese ( nine climbers) and Russian women (two form 7 Summits Club) led by Alexander Abramov went to the first acclimatization climb up to the Ice Base Refuge, at 3800 meters. Along the way, hosts and guests enjoy the beauty of waterfall Girl Braids, photographed on his ...

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Mission Seven Summits by Indian Air Force

06/08/2010 18:21

In a befitting ceremony at Air Headquarters, Air Marshal JN Burma, Air Officer-in-charge Administration (AOA) flagged off a six member mountaineering expedition team as a part of mission Seven Summit now ready to climb Mt Elbrus (5633m) in Europe and Mt Kilimanjaro (5895m) in Africa. Handing over ...

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Ascent and traverse of Elbrus

05/08/2010 13:56

Today, August, 5th, the group of 7 Summits Club in a body climbed the Western Top of Elbrus (5642 m). At seven o’clock a.m. there were 7 people staying on the summit: our guides, Alexander Abramov and Sergej Onufenko, and also Andrej Prozukin, Alexander Buriakov, Erich Wenzel, Tina Taova and ...

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15 climbers from 7 Summits Club on the top of Europe....

29/07/2010 19:16

Today, 29 July a large group of climbers 7 Summits Club climbed the Western Summit of Mount Elbrus. It included 11 members and 4 guide.   8 from them, led by Alexander Abramov, began their descent to the north, the area of Emmanuel Glade. Some of them climbed the Eastern ...

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Nepal women climbers to focus on Mt Elbrus

29/07/2010 17:28

Shailee Basnet co-coordinator of the Everest Women Seven Summits Eco-Action speaks in a press meet in Kathmandu on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The team successfully climbed the tallest mountain in Australia, Mt Kosciuszko/Targangil and after a great start in Australia, the team is now gearing up to ...

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Di Gilbert, one of Scotland’s foremost female climbers achieved her goal – 7 Summits

26/07/2010 04:40

A Highland mountaineering instructor returned to Scotland last night after successfully climbing the last of the world’s Seven Summits. Di Gilbert is now one of just 276 people to have reached the highest point on each of the seven continents, after successfully climbing Mount Elbrus in ...

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Climbing Mount Elbrus in July, photos

25/07/2010 17:58

On our site, we published a gallery of photos, depicting an ascent of our guide Victor Bobok and his team on Elbrus. With his team, Victor went to the Western summit twice in one day. A few days later he went again himself, with his wife Marina. Group members: Fred Cobey, Naim Logic, Alisa Schwarz ...

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South Africans flew off the top of Mount Elbrus

21/07/2010 18:51

The 'scariest thing' she's ever done … Champion paraglider Pierre Carter needed all his experience yesterday to fly safely off the top of Mount Elbrus in Russia with top climber and The Times photographer Marianne Schwankhart. The daring pair reached the summit of the 5642m Mount Elbrus at ...

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A successful ascent on Elbrus despite bad weather

15/07/2010 17:34

Weather forecasts for several days on Mount Elbrus shows a lack of visibility, strong winds and snowfall. No improvement. So we had to go today, not trying to wait for the mercy of the weather. Our experienced guides Victor Bobok, Pavel Milanov and Oleg Miller decided to start this night. They knew ...

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Our first summer group climbed Mount Elbrus

04/06/2010 17:25

This morning a group of 7 Summits Club under the leadership of Oleg Miller successfully climbed to the top of the Western Peak of Elbrus. Nadejda Voskresenskaya, Dmitry Mokhnachev, Rima Ramchandra and Jonatan Gilmore (both from the UK) reached the highest point. Nitin Chhibbar and Daria Mohnacheva ...

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