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Some photos from the South

30/12/2006 17:46

                                     

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Nine the most important meetings in Antarctica

22/12/2006 21:11

Hello, Alexander Abramov from Antarctica. The leader of expedition of the Seven Summits Club and Adventure Team of Alpindustria. Today, December, 21. It is our 21-st day of expedition life. We are still on the Patriot Hills. Snowstorm, a gale-force wind and the dazzling sun. In tent - plus, « ...

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Lorenzo Gariano and Cliff Dargonne - Carstensz Pyramid

20/12/2006 12:21

Lorenzo Gariano - Carstensz Pyramid As part of his Seven Summits challenge, Lorenzo Gariano is scheduled to climb Carstensz Pyramid on Irian Jaya, Indonesia 15th of December 2006. Lorenzo was climbing with Cliff Dargonne, who summited Everest from Nepal in 2003 when Lorenzo was climbing Lhotse. They ...

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Our team on the top of Mount Vinson !

18/12/2006 14:41

Our team on the top of Mount Vinson ! Today, 18.12.06, at 2 o`clock in the night on Moscow time (8 p.m. December, 17 on Antarctica) Alexander Abramov has called by the satellite phone and informed, that all team stands on the top of Mount Vinson, on the highest point of Antarctica. They went from ...

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Good weather, we are in the secind camp

16/12/2006 20:21

Alex Abramov, the leader of 7 Summits Club expedition to Antarctica. Today December, 15. We have taken off, at last, from Patriot Hills and have arrived in the base camp of Mount Vinson. The weather is fine: there is no wind, the sun, warmly. We have gone upward and have felt, that we go very good. ...

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Marathon: Climbers ahead of runners !

14/12/2006 14:52

Alexander Abramov, the leader the 7 Summits-Club expeditionDecember, 14. What is the Antarctic marathon? It is last stage of the project seven marathons on seven continents for seven weeks. It is very prestigious competition among marathon runners. We had long discussions about our participation in ...

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Ice marathon, waiting for flying weather.

13/12/2006 22:04

Ice marathon, waiting for flying weather. Alex Abramov, “7 Summits Club” Mount Vinson expedition:“…and later, after discussions with marathoners we were intrigued more and more. Why not ? And we make a decision to take part in the ice marathon. Diary. December, 12. A ninth ...

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Hello, Hills ! Nice to see you, Antarctida !

11/12/2006 12:14

Alexander Abramov, Leader of Mount Vinson expedition of the Seven Summits Club Today it happened. After fortnight term of stay in Punta Arenas, at last, early in the morning Mark has informed, that today we take off. On the eve we have got acquainted a half of crew of the plane of IL-76. It is the ...

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A Letter, still from Punta Arenas....

06/12/2006 22:12

Each three hours Mark (from of ALE company) calls on my mobile phone and informs a condition of weather in Antarctica. He speaks, that we will be able to fly to Antarctida soon, probably. However it does not occur. Yesterday there was a meeting, the management of the firm has informed about rescue ...

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Swedish climbers missed two world records.

05/12/2006 09:34

28.11.2006. Martin Letzter (25) and Olof Sundström (26) has summited Mount Vinson in Antarctica and become the first swedish to climb the seven summits. They have also skiied down all of the summits. Just few hours after Davo Karnicar ? 02.12.2006 Twenty-nine year old Fredrik Sträng has ...

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Punta Arenas: bad weather does not allow us to hope...

03/12/2006 21:26

Expedition of the 7 Summits Club to Antarctica. December, 3. All team has gathered in Punta Arenas. The intense preparation has borrowed 3 days, gathering of things and purchase of products of 500 kg. Now we are ready to fly away to Antarctica for an ascent on the highest summit of Antarctica ...

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Davor Karnicar skied down 7 summits !

30/11/2006 11:39

28. November 2006Davo has successfully concluded the project !Davo has successfully finished the 7 Summits project! He is the first man on the Earth skied from all seven summits of all continents! His words about the last descent: ?It was extremely cold, the weather was unpredictable, but the snow ...

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ALEX`S FIRST MESSAGE FROM an EXPEDITION to ANTARCTICA.

29/11/2006 20:39

November, 28 about 9 p.m. Moscow time, after long journey via Madrid and Santiago , Alexander has arrived in Punta Arenas. It is 2 days before arrival of the main group, to have time to prepare all for their arrival. Today, November, 29, at 18.10 Igor Pohvalin and Vladimir Aristarhov (other two ...

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Canadian Breaks World Record

29/11/2006 10:33

Canadian Breaks World Record INVERMERE, BC, Nov. 28 /CNW/ - Daniel Griffith has made Canada and the Canadian Alpine community proud by setting an incredible world record. Dan, a Stratford Ontario native, has just finished climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents within 187 days, ...

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Seven volcanoes and Mount Vinson twice....

25/11/2006 19:38

On Thursday, November, 23, in cafe the Exit Point, our company announced our new project « seven volcanos ». It is the program of ascents on the highest volcanos of all continents. Within the nearest years, we plan to lead expeditions to the summits missing in our list: Orizaba, Ojos del Salado, ...

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Kevin Flynn - He`s just one of the few to ascend the Seven Summits

23/11/2006 08:29

(November 19, 2006) — Kevin Flynn said the sleet and high winds that greeted him and his wife when they reached the summit on an otherwise simple climb of Mount Kosciuszko in Australia were "kind of fitting." It was the seventh of the famed Seven Summits for the 49-year-old mountaineer from ...

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43 Estonian climbers to climb the highest summit of Africa ....

18/11/2006 21:04

The glory of Finns does not give Estonians of rest It is planned, that the flag of Estonia on Kilimanjaro will be risen November, 26. 43 Estonian climbers have decided to conquer the highest summit of Africa Kilimanjaro and thus to break a record of the neighbours of Finns which have climbed up this ...

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Harry Kikstra: ExposedPlanet.com is a so-called photoblog

16/11/2006 14:28

Harry Kikstra : ExposedPlanet.com is a so-called photoblog, which is the visual variation of a blog. Normally photobloggers post one image daily with little or no comments, but as you will see, not me. I have started ExposedPlanet.com not only as a way to show my portfolio, but also to share the ...

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Discovery Channel. Everest: Beyond the Limit

15/11/2006 12:57

DSC — Everest: Beyond the Limit Summit Dreams “Climbers arrive at Everest Base Camp and quickly learn the dangers of the mountain when they hear about a Sherpa`s condition. Climbers struggle to push their bodies to acclimate to the extreme altitude four miles above sea level”. Discovery Channel ...

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Indian Malli Mastan Babu record: Seven summits in 172 days, both versions in 281

11/11/2006 20:08

Indian Malli Mastan Babu record: Seven summits in 172 days, both versions in 281 (MountEverest.net) Malli Mastan Babu, born in a middle class family in Andhra Pradesh, India got his Everest summit 2 years later - on May 21 this year - after climbing the South Col route with Tenzing Sherpa and ...

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