ALE do occasionally accept private trips to Mount Sidley. For example, the January 2014 one was just such. This year, through 7 Summits Club, a large Russian-led trip departed ahead of the “usual” ALE trip which (as I write this) is now in Antarctica. So for the first Mount Sidley January 2025 Continue Reading
V7S update – December 2024
There is another V7S completer. Yury Lukyanov completed the challenge on Pico de Orizaba with a group from 7 Summits Club on Christmas Day, 25th December 2024. Congratulations to Yury. Yury is the first person from Kazakhstan to achieve this. He was on Sidley last season when he Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits – November 2024 update
I am able to report that as of 29 November 2024, two more have complete the Volcanic Seven Summits. They are Ryszard Pawlowski and Tomasz Bryl, both Poles, who summited Ojos del Salado at approximately 13:00 local time in clear but very cold and windy conditions. Also in the party was Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits – May 2024
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