Description
Climb Mount Elbrus North side. This expedition takes the more remote approach away from the cable cars and chair lifts of the South. Whilst the route may be described as more beautiful the final summit day is far longer and more exhausting being around 1,900m to the main west summit and should therefore only be attempted by those with a very high level of fitness!!
The Base Camp for the Northern approach is situated at Emmanuel Glade offering a much more pastoral landscape compared to the steeper mountainous landscapes seen from the South. There is one more camp above Base Camp, which is used for our summit bid. The team will climb to Lenz Rocks as part of the acclimatisation before summit day.
Despite the North side being a more challenging summit day Adventure Peaks has an outstanding success rate on both the North and South sides of Elbrus.
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Adventure Peaks do not provide any advice on travel insurance, although it is a requirement of our booking conditions that you have travel insurance which covers the activities which you are likely to be undertaking on your holiday. Cover must include emergency medical, helicopter evacuation, repatriation and rescue expenses.
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Tom –
Great guide and organisation. The local Russian guide also went out of his way to help us get roubles, and let me begin my summit push at 23:00 so I did not have to use the snowcat. We all worked as a team, yet achieved individual goals. Great all round UK guide. Acted as a member of the team (superior in talent obviously!). Very unbiased answers to questions and not a hint of arrogance or grumpiness on the whole trip.
Edward –
Once there the organisation was excellent. Chris [the leader] was awesome, would like to do another expedition with him sometime.
Carl –
Excellent experience…I never had any complaints, can’t even think of anything so that’s got to be a good thing and I love to moan! [The trip leader was] a great guy, perfect for what I needed. [The trip highlight was] ALL OF IT. Next trip already booked for next year!