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| 06-07-2010 |
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« Six highest (above 5000 m) Caucasus peaks from the seven (exept Kazbek) are in Kabardino-Balkaria.
The highest is Elbrus. What associations do usually occur when you hear about the environs of Elbrus?
- Air, light, snow, pines, rivers, eagles, birch trees. But first of all majestic mountains...
The history of Elbrus conquering is full of surprising facts and sometimes almost incredible episodes. Two days ago i"ve be a eyewitness of one.
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| 02-06-2010 |
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« It is necessary to submit a completed migration card at the Russian Federation border checkpoint.
Migration card forms are issued free of charge to the foreign citizens entering the Russian Federation by representatives of transport organizations (operating personnel of long-distance trains, airliners, sea and river vessels, etc.)
The migration card is completed in Russian. It can also be completed in Latin letters corresponding to the data contained in the passport or another identification document. Both parts of the migration card should be filled in.
In the ... »
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| 20-05-2010 |
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« The price of human life.
Sergei Duganov, died on Lhotse.
I write this message not because of but in spite of. I like mountaineering, it is not only sport but style of life and I cannot imagine my life without it but it is painfully!
When a friend of yours dies you are on the verge of despair, you can not breeze, you can not go on living, you hardly understand the tragic loss.
Then you start to understand that it was happened and you have lost forever, it is your fault, you haven"t been near your friend, you cannot return back.
Sergey, do you remember my answer to your question on the Polish rout to Mt.Acancagua: "Anatoly, ... »
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| 27-04-2010 |
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« Airport Manas is working as usual. All the flights are available.
Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border - functioning in stricter regime. According to the border controls of the northern region, Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border is open to citizens of all countries in both directions except for citizens of Kazakhstan crossing into Kyrgyzstan and citizen of Kyrgyzstan crossing into Kazakhstan.
Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border . functioning in stricter regime. According to the border controls of the southern region, Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border is open to citizens of all countries in both directions except for citizens of Kyrgyzstan crossing into ... »
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| 21-04-2010 |
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«On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner, the world-renowned master of alpine-style climbing, became the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen.»
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| 20-04-2010 |
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«The route on Elbrus (5642 m) from the West - this is climbing by fair means, without cableways, without ratraks, without hotels and shelters. We guarantee that you have never seen similar Elbrus before: powerful ice formation, rock walls, including famous rock walls of Kyukyurtlyu. And no one person escept your group!
At the end of the road we found a small (people`s) resort on the Djily-Suu mineral springs. There on provide warm bathes and numerous mineral water for drink. Climbing route leads mostly by glacier moraine, after a camping overnight we climb snow-ice slopes to the rock ground on 4400m. It is a nice place - when the weather is ... »
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| 14-02-2010 |
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«This month it is executed 13 years from the date of the first Russian winter ascention in the Swiss Alpes on peak Eiger (3970 Í) on the centre of northern wall (John Harlina"s route).
Video about an ascension here.
Peak Eiger till now uses bad glory because of unapproachable Northern wall with difference of heights of 1650 m and magic attracts the mad vertical of ice and snow of all oustanding mountaineers the world..»
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| 15-01-2010 |
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«See helicopter flights schedule Karkara Base Camp to South Inylchek glacier.
Expedition on Tian-Shan: ascents of Mt.Khan-Tengri (7010m) and Victory Peak (7439m).
Tian-Shan flights schedule 2010
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| 13-01-2010 |
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«March 14 2010 - SKI Entrance test for new guides near Bishkek city.
Information about the training course.
Test ski- technique:
- sideslipping
- stem turn left and right
- parallel turn
- paralell turn, off piste
- Personal feedback
- Information for the future MGE »
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| 02-01-2010 |
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«skiing in Austria, January 02-11. Zell am See and Caprun glacier.»
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| 20-12-2009 |
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«The "winter ascent to the North Face of K2".»
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| 26-11-2009 |
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«This is one of the great Caucasian Peaks, facing the magnificent Bezingi Wall across the Bezingi Glacier. The first ascent in August 1888 by J.G.Cockin, W.Holder and H.Woolley with U.Almer, C.Roth was a major achievement at the time. Grade: 4b (Russian Grading).»
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| 19-09-2009 |
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« ...rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloudless eastern sky.
J. F. Cooper "The Last of the Mohicans"
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| 03-09-2009 |
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«14ers. Seven peaks during 9 days. National Parks of United States.»
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| 24-08-2009 |
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«Ascents on 7000 peaks. Nikolay Totmyanin and French climbers on Khan Tengri and Pobeda.»
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| 13-08-2009 |
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«Group of alpinists from Asturia. Spanish again on the highest point of Europe.»
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