August 5, 2014 Trip 3 has begun. Jonathan Schrock and Igor Tsaruk met Team 3 in St. Petersburg Sunday evening. Everyone’s accounted for and all their luggage arrived. Nice. Weather’s been quite nice in St. Petersburg so the team had a great day of sightseeing Monday, capped off with a boat ride through the rivers/canals […]
July 31, 2014 Mike and team are now all in Moscow. Time to be play tourist and see as much of Moscow as possible before flights home tomorrow evening. Tours this afternoon and tomorrow morning. The Kremlin, Red Square, the GUM, Sparrow Hill and Moscow University, Old Arbot Street – you get the idea. Weather, […]
July 30, 2014 Another note from Mike Hamill over on Elbrus: Phil, We had a great day in the Valley and the team is psyched. A few of the team went on a hike in the valley with Igor and the rest went higher with Sasha and me across the glacier to a lake from […]
July 28, 2014 Mike’s back in the land of wi-fi and sent this quick note – “We made it back to Cheget this morning and just had a celebration lunch in town and are about to hit the old sauna. The team did well.  We’ll see what the weather does tomorrow but the plan is […]
July 27, 2014 100% on the summit this morning. Good weather going up, not so nice coming down. No matter – team’s back at high camp, snug in our hut. Congratulations to Mike, Igor, Sasha and the entire team. They simply can’t do better than that. Season’s off to a really good start. 19 for […]
July 25, 2014 Beautiful weather yesterday to get on the lower slopes of Elbrus and do a bit of practice and review. Spent last evening at their hotel in Terskol. With the time difference, they just finishing up packing and ready to head to our high hut shortly. A little rain this morning and some […]
July 23, 2014 Report from Mike Hamill from Terskol, in the Caucasus: Great weather for our hike up to the Observatory today.  Mathew’s bag never showed.  He’s here now in Cheget.  He was able to buy some critical items in St. Petersburg. Team members are donating some their extra gear and we’ll  pick up the […]
July 21, 2014 Mike Hamill reported in from St. Petersburg today. Crew had a good day touring St. Petersburg. Off to Mineralnye Vody tomorrow and the 4 hour drive up to the village of Terskol in the Caucasus. Still one bag to come in but, otherwise, all is good. Climbing Elbrus sure is a great […]
July 20, 2014 Mike Hamill checked in today from St. Petersburg where Igor Tsaruk and he met our second Elbrus team of the 2014 season. First big hurdle has been cleared – almost. Everyone made it in and has been checked into our hotel, had dinner and sent off to bed. Two bags have not […]
July 17, 2014 3/5’s of our summit team on Elbrus. 2/5’s, Sasha and Mark, were taking the picture! What a sensational morning to climb. Sometimes it just pays to be lucky. Phil Ershler
