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News: December 2010

Happy New Year !

31/12/2010 13:33

                 

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Alexander Abramov from the Union Glacier: partings and meetings

29/12/2010 20:19

Hello, today the 29 th of December. Ilyushin came ... Some of our clients has departed, a part of our team, part of the Ukrainian, has remained in Antarctica ... to work on their plans. Now a new group arrives, I'll be working with them on the Mount of Vinson, two weeks. January 10th expedition to ...

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The flight must be 29th of December

29/12/2010 12:46

The management of ALE announced that a flight of the aircraft from Punta Arenas to Antarctica will be held on December 29. On the eve of the last of team members arrived in this Chilean city. It is "the best rating (18 points) of the members of the 7 Summits Club” 58-year-old Italian, Mario ...

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Alex Abramov: a call from the summit of Vinson

27/12/2010 19:40

We stay on the highest peak in Antarctica: Alexander Abramov, Dmitry Kolotiy and Andrey Podolyan. We have a strong, powerful team, climbing was done very quickly. The weather is perfect, I never have seen such weather on the Vinson. Now we're going to undress from the waist up for making pictures. ...

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South Pole: Richard Parks reaches the Pole, a loss in the Austrian ORF team

27/12/2010 18:28

www.737challenge.com.  27th December 2010. Richard Parks completed the first leg of his world first 737 Challenge this morning, arriving at the South Pole and completing the first of 3 poles he will face during his 7-month race to climb the highest mountain on each of the world’s ...

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Alex Abramov: Great mood and excellent weather in the High Camp…

27/12/2010 11:33

Hello ! Today, 26th of December. The full team climbed to the High Camp and now ... the main thing is, that we all got it, and tomorrow in the morning, at 9 a.m., we start for climbing the summit. To raise flags sponsors on the top, who has this flags. Well, in general, the weather is ...

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Meanwhile, a new Antarctic team came to Punta Arenas ...

27/12/2010 10:01

A young Romanian climber Crina (Coco) Popescu and her father Ovidiu arrived December 26 in Punta Arenas, with a day late. The same day, the Polish part of our new team got (also adventure) to this Chilean town. This Zygmunt Wladyslaw Berdychowski, Roman Ludwik Dzida, Daniel Mizera, Malgorzata Bozena ...

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Alex Abramov: A quiet Christmas night ended with a crazy morning

26/12/2010 12:31

When I woke up in the morning, it rattled in the tent. When I looked out, I saw as our kitchen tent was dropped. A morning in the Low Camp usually starts at 12 o'clock, when the sun comes out. At 12 a.m. we get a weather forecast for the next day, usually for a couple of days. So, this morning ...

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Alexander Abramov: On Christmas night, the weather miraculously established

25/12/2010 14:40

27/12/2010 Hello! December 24 - the day before Christmas night. In the morning there was a terrible storm, a hurricane roared overhead, on the ridge. The wind reached a speed of 80-100 km per hour. Within days, there was no connection with the High Camp, where seven people left. We all worried, ...

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Coco Popescu leaves on Antarctica expedition

25/12/2010 11:23

Tomorrow, 26th of December, we are waiting for her in Punta Arenas. Crina Coco Popescu will see her dream come true on Christmas Eve when she will leave for Punta Arenas to complete her most important expedition till now, „Antarctica 2010-2011”. http://www.celmaisus.ro Crina will begin ...

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We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

24/12/2010 21:12

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH YOU ALL A GREAT NEW YEAR   JOIN OUR CLUBLET'S  CLIMB TOGHETHER !   LET IT SNOW, ANYWAY                            

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The Highest Art: 78-Year-Old Painter Ranan Lurie Plans Exhibition on Top of Mount Everest

23/12/2010 21:41

Associated Press.  NEW YORK — True art can be an elevated pursuit — in this case an elevation of approximately 29,000 feet.  Three small panels of a massive painting project that has been displayed at the United Nations are set to be carried to the top of Mount Everest in ...

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Alex Abramov and his team went down to the Low Camp

23/12/2010 11:13

Hello! Now at 9 pm on Chile, the 22-th of December. Our team went down to the Low Camp. The weather at the top is bad, the forecast for tomorrow is worse than for today, and the next day - worse than tomorrow. Therefore, a minimum to 24-th, our team will be in the Low Camp. We did not reached the ...

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News Aconcagua: A Prime Minister from Europe on the way to the summit !

20/12/2010 17:08

Tomorrow a representative delegation leaves Mendoza in the direction of Aconcagua. It is a team from Belgium, consisting of about 30 people. Among them, the most senior official person of the country for this moment. It is the Prime Minister of Flanders, 48-year old Kris Peeters. The expedition ...

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Alexander Abramov: climbing process on Mount Vinson goes on

20/12/2010 11:50

Alexander Abramov, from Antarctica (the message was sent in the late evening on December, 19 at Chilean time). 15th of December our team have returned to the base by a plane, from the pole to the Union Glacier camp. On December, 16 a new team arrived: Anatoly Ezhov, Andrey Podolyan, Dmitry Kolotiy. ...

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Richard Parks starts for his challenge, but he is still in the Union Glacier

20/12/2010 10:13

 FORMER  rugby star Richard Parks has made it to the Antarctic in the first leg of his mammoth challenge to climb the highest peaks in all seven continents and reach the three poles in seven months.  Parks left Cardiff Bay on December 12, flying to Punta Arenas in Chile for a ...

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A Book about Seven Summits issued on Tuvan Language

19/12/2010 19:26

The project  to conquer the seven highest points of seven continents was started in 2007 with the support of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool. During next year four Tuvan climbers climbed two of the seven highest peaks in the world - Elbrus (5,642 m) and Kilimanjaro ( ...

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How Element3 became Element4 for Swiss climbers of Aconcagua

18/12/2010 18:49

Three young persons from Swiss invented a rather original program for their trip. Three elements, three ways to travel, and all without motorized means, without hotels and restaurants, without guides or porters. From the doors of their homes - to the summit of Aconcagua. This means: from the resort ...

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Preparation for “Earth’s Ring of Fire” Expedition Started

16/12/2010 13:25

Research and sport expedition “Earth’s Ring of Fire”, aimed at traveling around the globe and following our planet’s volcanic belt, starts in February 2011. The expedition will visit 19 countries: Russia, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, ...

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Letter from the expedition leader Kazbek Khamitsaev from New Zealand

15/12/2010 14:18

A team of climbers of the project "Russia at the top of the world" under leadership of Kazbek Khamitsaev is already in New Zealand. Yesterday we came to the National Park Mount Cook, settled on the shores of Lake Pukaki. At 9 a.m., New Zealand time, we made an official visit to the Center of Edmund ...

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