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Mt.ELBRUS ASCENT (5621 m),
10 days program on the Caucasus
Season from July to September
From time immemorial the majestic Elbrus attracts many people. Locals named it Mangitau - the mount of thousand mount heights.Being an extinct volcano, it is built up from granits,gneisses and volcano rockes - tuffs and diabases. Western Head is 5642 m height and Eastern Head is 5621 m (about 17.000 ft and 16.860 ft respectively). Mainly the slopes of Elbrus till 4000 m are gentle and become steeper above, up to 35 degrees in average.
The temperature change during a day is pretty high in valleys - 19-20 centegrees. The relative humidity is about 67-70 percents. Usually weather below 3000 m is calm and very windy up the hills (sometime the wind reaches 15 m/s at "Prijut Of 11" ).
Nature has lavishly endowed the area with beauty: marvellous snowcaped summits, turbulent rivers and waterfalls, bright carpets of alpine and subalpine grass, coniferous forests full of resinous pine-tree fragrance, salubrious chalybeate mineral springs.
For the first time Mt. Elbrus was conqured by a Caucasian in 1829. The first Europeans reached the summit were English - Duglas Freshfield and his friends. It has happened in 1868.
Read more about ascents on mt.Elbrus, mountaineering on the Caucasus and about climbing in Russia.
Day 1. Arrival to Mineralnyie Vody airport. Coach transfer to Baksan Valley ( 2 hours). Hotel "Volfram" ( *** ). Wellcome dinner with the guides.
Day 2. Easy walk up to Azau gorge till the glacier end ( 3.000 m). Return to hotel.
Day 3. Minibus lift up to Adylsu river gorge ( 40 minutes) and hike up to the Green Hotel Meadow ( 3.200 m). Return to hotel. Gear check, ascent prepare.
Day 4. Minibus lift to the bottom of the "Mir" and then lift by a funiculor up to the top of the "Mir" station ( 3.700 m). Acclimatization ike up to the place of the former Priut Of 11 mountain shelter (4.200 m) - 2.5 hours. Return down to 3.800 m and overnight in the "Bars" shelter.
Day 5. Climb to the Pastukhov's Rocks ( 4.800 m). Return to the "Bars". Overnight.
Day 6. Climb mt.Elbrus ( 5.621 m). Return to the "Bars". Overnight.
Day 7. Reserve day for the second attempt.
Day 8. Descent down to the "Mir" station. Return to hotel.
Day 9. Rest and leasure. Farewell dinner.
Day 10. Coach transfer to Mineralnyie Vody. Departure.
SERVICES INCLUDE:
- accommodation,
- most meals,
- professional guides on the ascent,
- interpreter,
- basic transport,
- visa support and ascent fee.
EXTRASERVICES:
- accommodation in Moscow/St.Petersburg,
- airtickets Moscow/St.Petersburg - Mineralnyie Vody,
- single suppliment,
- mountaineering gear for ascent.
The details on specific dates as well as the other information is available upon request.