I am able to report that there is another completer of the Volcanic Seven Summits on 15th May 2024. This is Russian Andrey Kravchenko. He completed the seven on Mount Giluwe as a part of a Seven Summits Club team. Here he is on the summit. Congratulations to him. The claimants' list is Continue Reading
The Second Volcanic Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are well-known. In 1997, the concept of the Second Seven Summits came into the wider public domain with an article in Rock & Ice by David Keaton. This article, of course, listed the second highest mountains on each continent and also discussed their relative Continue Reading
The Alternative Volcanic Seven Summits
Back in October 2019 I wrote a blog that discussed whether a volcano in Australia ought to replace Mount Giluwe for the purposes of the list of the Volcanic Seven Summits. This was based on use of the principles behind the Bass version of the Seven Summits. In other words, the landmass Continue Reading
Another Volcanic Seven Summits completer – January 2024
I can now report the fact that Russian, Sergey Vasiliev, completed the Volcanic Seven Summits on 26th January 2024. He had a successful ascent of Ojos del Salado. He was on the first of ALE’s recent Sidley trips. With the recent completion of the V7S by Marius Purice, there are now 45 Continue Reading
Mount Sidley – January 2024 (part 2)
At 19:00 GMT -4 on 17th January 2024 the second ALE team of the season summited Mount Sidley. This was less than two weeks after the first team. This is my second blog on Mount Sidley - January 2024 The second team was much smaller with just one guide and four climbers. One of the Continue Reading