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Written By: sean on August 10, 2010 One Comment
Mt Elbrus – Day 3 – To the Baksan Valley

 Message from Sean, ‘we are on our way to Mineralyne Vody and all is good’. 

Luckily Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow (one of the three Moscow airports) which is where they departed from – remains largely unaffected by the smog. After the three hour flight from Moscow to MV (Mineral Waters), they will drive six hours up to Terskol, at […]

Written By: sean on August 9, 2010 One Comment
Mt Elbrus – Day 2 – Moscow

 Hayibo!  We’ve just arrived in Moscow.  It’s all modern here now and unforgivingly hot. No more of those jets with silver ice lollies on the wing tips…must have melted off.   

No grog allowed on Egypt Air so Vivien and Michelle bought a bottle of wine which Viv must have been chugging during turbulence because […]

Written By: sean on August 8, 2010 One Comment
Mt Elbrus – Day 1 – Departure day

Katherine’s been checking the flight status of our Egypt Air flight to Moscow, to see whether there are any delays because of the fires raging around the city.  One website states that Domodedovo airport sent 33 jets to the reserve airfields, 36 departing and 44 arriving flights are delayed.  Eysh.  I’m more concerned about the fact […]

Written By: sean on August 6, 2010 One Comment
Mt Elbrus – 2 days to go before departure

While all of Russia burns and while Muscovites are evacuating the capital, eleven of us are getting ready to fly in!  How comical is that.  It all feels like a typical Wisedale expedition.  Yep – we are en route to the highest mountain in Europe – Mt Elbrus 5642 meters above sea level.  If all goes well, I hope to blow the […]

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