Mt. Elbrus: Northside Team Summits on a Perfect Day
Posted by: Pete Van Deventer, Mike Uchal
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Elbrus Northside
Elevation: 18,510'
Hi, this is Pete Van Deventer with the Elbrus-Northside crew calling in. We are back at Camp 1 after a really successful summit day. Couldn't have asked for anything more perfect. We woke up this morning to warm temps, clear skies, and not a breath of wind. We made our way up relatively quiet until we merged with the southside route at the Saddle, and then we could see the line of climbers coming from that route, but we made our own switchbacks and stayed out of the traffic and cruised up to the summit in pretty good style. One hundred percent of our folks stood on top today. A really good day all the way around. A special shout out to Josh, who ended up being pretty motivated and roped up with our local guide, Sasha, and they made another trip from there over to the east side in only about an hour, so they tagged both summits. We all descended to Lenz Rocks and stopped there for about an hour and packed up camp, and then made our way back down to Moraine Camp, Camp 1. We are tucked in here, inside our tents and we're out to enjoy a pizza dinner from Nina, the cook here. She makes amazing stuff. The plan is tomorrow to head down to Base Camp and we'll take our time getting down there and spend the evening. Then the cars will come for us the day after that to take us to Kislovodsk. Everybody will be back in touch with loved ones soon and everyone sends their best. It's been a really good day here on the northside of Elbrus. Everybody's super excited. Talk later.
RMI Guide Pete Van Deventer
RMI Guide Pete Van Deventer calls after a successful Elbrus summit via the Northside.
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Comments (12)
Congratulations Sonam! You put your heart to it and you did it! Proud of you!
Ephrem
Posted by: Ephrem on
Congrats Lisa! Can’t wait to hear all about your trip and see photos. Love, the Zaia crew
Posted by: Kelly on
Wow! Congratulations Robin and Lisa and team! Can’t wait to hear how the world looks from above!
Posted by: Janet on
Way to go Josh! No surprise that you went the extra “mile”. Can’t wait to hear all about it. Amarillo is boring without you.
Posted by: Chase on
Way to go Robin & Lisa…Reach up and touch the sky!!! See you soon….all is good at home!
jean and marty
Posted by: Jean Roddy on
Congratulations, everyone and Lisa and Robin - you are AMAZING! Can’t wait to hear all about it.
Liz
Posted by: Liz on
Congratulations to all, but my special ones to my girl, Robin. So proud of you, and now I can breathe a sigh of relief. Can’t wait to see you and get more details.
Posted by: barbara sluboski on
Huge congrats to Lisa and Robin!!! Happy to hear it was a great day to summit and can’t wait to hear all about it. Thank you for climbing for Robin Hood - we’re all cheering for you back in NYC!!
Posted by: Megan on
Great Job, Kelly and Josh
Posted by: Jeff and Deb Thummel on
Congratulations Josh and Kelly! Knew you would do it. Looking forward to hearing all about it. Will be glad to have you home.
Posted by: Diana Boyd on
Way to go! We are so proud of all of the team. No surprise here that Josh was motivated. Nice Job Josh!
Posted by: Christy Cunningham on
Way to go, Sonam! You are the king of crushing it!
Posted by: Greg on