MT. ELBRUS
End of June Maura Reinolds, a reporter from "Los Angeles Times" has climbed mt.Elbrus to the top and wrote a story about Balkarians, people, who live around the top of Europe.
Photographer Paul Miller helped as a camera man and made some very good shots that you can enjoy seeing below. "Wild Russia" was very pleased to assist logistics for this trip and guide the team.
Read the story at www.latimes.com.
Tom Milne and "Mountain Madness" came again to mt.Elbrus for climbing and snowboarding with "Wild Russia". The snowboarders liked very much a playground installed at the Barrels
Hut and descended almost from the Elbrus saddle.
YAKUTIA
"Siberian Challenge 2001" project of the Royal Logistics Corps (British Army) and Russian Emercom (Russian Federal Rescue Unit) has been successfully completed in remote Cherskiy Mountain Range. Extraordinary and very complicated logistics and the climbs from the expedition,
where "Wild Russia" took responsibility for co-ordination of the project, is described at Our Special Page.
THE ALTAI
The author of "The Way of
Adventure" Jeff Saltz and his friend Steven Meyers, "Marmot"
co-owner, have undertaken an expedition with "Wild Russia" to the most remote part of
the Altai mountains on the edge of the Mongolian border. Using a horse back
they approached mt.Belukha (the highest peak in Siberia) from the East and experienced truly nomadic life with local wranglers.
KAMCHATKA
Christine Grey, a Scottish photographer, has visited Kamchatka on June, when
most of its volcanoes are covered in snow and trails are not so easy to trek.
However, Christine managed to climb Gorely volcano and made a few incredible
shots from the top of it. Her impression about the beauty of this Land of
Wilderness was so deep that she wrote a small poem.
Yegor has led a classic "Wild Russia" expedition on Kamchatka - the "Bears and Volcanoes". This year we have done a trek on a horse back to Timonovskiye Hot Springs to the foothills of holy mt.Bakening and
crater's lakes on the top of Gorely. See some exciting pictures below.
"Wild Russia" continue supporting international projects. There were expedition to mt.Demavand in Iran, overland tours to Ladakh, Tibet and Nepal. Since this year we expand our activities to corporate adventure trainings in St.Petersburg. We believe our goal
for the next year is to be more involved in international adventure travel operations.
Assisting to the community of adventurers to explore the worlds and themselves
is our mission of the coming year. If you wish to
share your experience with us or new ideas, feel free to contact us at anytime by e-mail or by telephones.
