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Day 1
22 May
Saturday |
Depart UK or Ireland
Landing in Moscow.
Transfer to a hotel. Russian visas registration.
Dinner |
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Day 2
23 May
Sunday
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Breakfast.
Transfer to Domodedovo airport.
Depart to Mineralnye Vody. Lunch.
Coach transfer to Terskol (4 hours).
Accommodation in local 3* Hotel, bed and breakfast. Sightseeing.
Dinner in local cafe.
see photo
(Terskol. Cafe Cupol)
Night in the hotel. |
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Day 3
24 May
Monday
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Breakfast in cafe.
Local registration.
Local shopping for food.
Trekking to Terskol River Valley (load - only personal things).
see photo (Terskol
Valley)
see photo (Terskol
Valley)
see photo (Terskol
Valley)
Choice of accommodation: Night in tents (alt 2100m) and cooking
on a stove, or return to hotel and dinner in cafe. |
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Day
4
25 May
Tuesday
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Breakfast on a stove or in hotel.
Hike up to Vertoletny (Helicopter) Pass (alt. 3000m) takes 3
hours.
see photo
(Helicopter Pass)
see photo
(Helicopter Pass)
Either on foot from campsite or from hotel.
Return to the camp or hotel. Late lunch.
Return to hotel (5 km), accommodation.
Bathing in sauna.
Dinner in cafe. |
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Day
5
26 May
Wednesday
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Breakfast
Day hike to Cheget Mt, lunch enroute, high level hike and
Back to hotel in evening. |
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Day
6
27 May
Thursday
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Breakfast in hotel, early.
Drive to Azau and take cablecar/chair lift to Bochki Barrels
(alt. 3,500m)
Accommodation in Bochki or Glacier House ( only for small groups
). Five persons to a room.
see photo (Bochki)
see photo (Glasier
House)
see photo (Pastukhov
Rocks)
Lunch. Cooking in common catering building.
Afternoon - walk up to "Priut of 11" ("Cabin of 11") for
acclimatisation. Return to Bochki for dinner and overnight.
see photo (Pastukhov
Rocks)
see photo (Pastukhov
Rocks)
see photo (Pastukhov
Rocks) |
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Day
7
28 May
Friday
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Breakfast.
Transfer up to "Priut of 11" with luggage. Accommodation at "Priut
of 11". Rooms or dormitories for up to five people per room.
Communal cooking area.
see photo (Priut
of 11)
Lunch on stoves.
Training for use of crampons and ice axe. Dinner on stoves.
Night in "Priut of 11". |
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Day
8
29 May
Saturday
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Breakfast on gas stoves. Walk up to Pastukhov Rocks.
Acclimatisation and training. 4 hours.
Lunch and Dinner on gas stoves. |
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Day
9
30 May
Sunday
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Summit
Day - awake at 2am.
Breakfast on gas stoves.
Summitting - options
1) Walk from Priut to summit and back will take 10 or 11 hours.
Depart 3am, return in afternoon.
2) For $200 we can hire a ratrack (snow machine) for between 8
or 10 people to take us up to Pasukhov Rocks only and continue
to summit on foot. This saves two hours.
see photo
(Mount Elbrus West Ridge) |
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Day
10
31 May
Monday |
Reserve
day for the second attempt of summit.
If the first attempt succeeded we spend this day in Wolfram
hotel, have lunch in Cupola cafe and do local excursion.
see photo (Irikchat
Valley)
Sauna. |
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Day
11
1 June
Tuesday |
Reserve
day for summit but necessary to descend all the way to Terskol
in one day by using ratrack and cable car. Time will be limited
on this day so it will be necessary to leave mountain by 2pm
because cable cars finish at 4pm.
Or: local hiking in and around Terskol and staying in hotel.
Celebration party with local dancers and traditional food.
see photo
(Celebration Party) |
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Day
12
2 June
Wednesday |
Breakfast.
Departure from Terskol at 10.00am.
Transfer to MinVody (4 hrs).
Lunch in airport.
Departure.
Landing in Moscow Domodedovo airport.
Accommodation in hotel. |
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Day
13
3 June
Thursday |
Some
clients leave to Sheremetevo airport for home.
Remaining clients for Excursions in Moscow.
detailed
Dinner in Moscow. Self paid. Restaurant - $50, cafe - $10 |
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Day
14
4 June
Friday |
Moscow
excursion - as day before.
Dinner in town, self paid. |
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Day
15
5 June
Saturday |
Early
breakfast
Airport Sheremetevo transfer.
Departure to UK or Ireland. |
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