ADVENTURES WITH CET "NEVA"

"Center of Extreme Tourism Neva"
St.-Petersburg, Russia

The CET Neva (Neva is the name of the main St.-Petersburg river) agency had been established in 1990 for rendering climbing services, primarily, over the whole ex-USSR area - Caucasus, Altai, Pamirs, Tian-Shan - to foreign climbers from Europe, both Americas and Japan.
After a number of years, the geography of our activity has expanded. At present, by the end of 2007, we continue, of course, to organize trekkings and ascents in the Central Caucasus including those of Elbrus, the Europe highest mountain, and expeditions to 7000 m peaks in Kirghizia and Tadjikistan. However to date, behind us are several expeditions into the Central Himalaya - ascents of the Mount Everest, the top of the world, and trekkings, . expeditions to the Baltoro glacier in Karakoram, ascents of Muztagh-ata, the highest point of the Chinese Pamir, expeditions to continental tops - Kilimanjaro in Africa, Aconcagua in the Andes, McKinley in Alaska, winter climbs in French and Suiss Alps and in the Cordillera Cantabrica in Spain, ascents in Norway, in the Rocky Mountains and in the Yosemities in the USA, in New Zealand Alps. Today"s CET Neva feels at home in mountains of all the continents with the exception a mere of Antarctica. But not only climbing and alpinism are in our bag - we perform ski tours in Caucasian regions, travels across Karelia - with ski in winter, with kayaks and canoes in summer. The latter has an additional attraction because it includes, almost in all the cases, visiting St.-Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities of the world.
On the other hand, now not only foreign climbers are aware of us. In last years the Russians got also the taste of travels into distant lands, and the CET Neva has now a russian clientele.
The agency work is headed by its permanent director and mountain guide, Anatoly Moshnikov. Being a very experienced climber and traveller, he has realized two climbs of the Everest without the balloon oxygen (one of them with the client), an ascent of another 8000 m himalayan giant - Dhaulagiri, dozens of wall climbs, both in summer and in winter, on the most difficult routes, including John Harlin"s diretissima on the Eiger North Wall (Swiss Alps) in February 1997, and also a successful expedition to the North Pole.
The strongest guide of the agency is Nikolay Totmianin, Kolia-turbo as he is called by his clients. As well as Moshnikov, Nikolay has twice climbed up the Everest with no oxygen, but besides he has in his bag K-2, the second world top, on a new route from the West, the first ascent of the notorious Jannu north wall which for decades until then remained an unsolvable climbing problem in the Himalaya, about forty ascents of Tian-Shan and Pamir 7000m-peaks, the Eiger North Wall together with Moshnikov.
Ivan Moshnikov is one more CET Neva guide. With confidence he follows his father: legendary Ushba in the Central Caucasus - three times, successful guiding on McKinley, Muztagh-ata, peak Lenin, Kilimanjaro and etc.
The oldest agency guide Serguey Kalmykov continues his collaboration with CET Neva. In 1997, when he was 57 years old, he participated in the Eiger climb together with Moshnikov and Totmianin. With his knowing three foreign languages (English, French, Spanish) Serguey was many a time the head of multilingual client groups and expeditions.
A Moscow guide, Victor Volodin collaborates constantly with us. He has two times climbed up the Everest, one of them being a new route on the North Wall, the Lhotse Middle (8414 m) - the Everest"s neighbour, K-2 in the same team as Nikolay Totmianin, many Pamir"s 6000m- and 7000m-peaks.
In its activity, CET Neva willingly utilizes high potential of the St.-Petersburg climbing community, and many highly qualified guides from Petersburg are frequently engaged by the agency.
CET Neva is tied with bonds of friendship and collaboration to many travel agencies and bureaus over the world. Address to us, and we"ll give you dozens of contacts to organizations and/or persons who worked or travelled with us to receive an independent reference about our work.
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