The Caucasus

Mt.Elbrus in sunny day (JPG, 44K).
Mt.Ushba - the symbol of caution and help at hand up-the-hills (JPG, 26K).
Slava Lazarev - our guide and the member of the National Rescue Team at mt.Elbrus (JPG, 55.7K)
Priyut of Eleventh - the Base Camp for mt.Elbrus one day's ascent (JPG, 107K).

The Altay Mountains

Mt.Belukha - the top of Altay and a Holy Summit for local tribs (GIF, 36.5K).
Lake Kucherla - the place we stay while on the horseback trek (GIF, 67.9K).
Old Altaian Lady during the Summer Festival in Tyungur village (JPG, 66.2K).
Reinhold Messner at Our Base Camp in Tyungur Village (JPG, 55.4K).
Nina Nikiforova and Victor Zhak meet R.Messner off the bus at our BaseCamp (GIF, 41.6K).
Altay horses on the trek to Mt.Belukha (GIF, 150K).
Local wranglers preparing to the ride on the trek (GIF, 82.4K).

The Kamchatka Pinensula

Old shaman at a Koryak village (GIF, 42.6K).
Our camp on the lonely Verkhoturov Island - the place of thousand birds and handreds walruses (JPG, 29K).
Walruses at Verkhoturov's Island (JPG, 32K).
A volcano's crater from the South Group filled with acrid natural solution (JPG, 24K).
Only helicopter or feet can bring to the wild Valley of Geysers (JPG, 54K).
The group of Kluchevskaya Sopka volcano - the highest active volcano in Eurasia (JPG, 27K).
Volcano Tolbachik from helicopter (JPG, 108K).
The Coldera of volcano Uzon - a unique evergreen reserve on the pinensula (GIF, 70K).