‘A tiny restaurant in the middle of nowhere, serving the best grilled Mountain Sheep you’ll ever taste!’  From Marthinus’ Facebook page.

From Sean yesterday – snow in Joburg. 36C in Doha. Moscow heat wave. Snowing on Mt Elbrus. Thermal Speedo’s…Speedo Thermals

The group has landed in Moscow and has booked into the Izmailovo hotel.  ‘Weird city’ says Marthinus.  They won’t have a chance to see much of it as they depart early tomorrow morning for the three hour flight to Mineralyne Vody airport (Mineral Waters), and then drive six hours up to Terskol, at the head of […]

Sean departs with a group of eleven climbers tonight for Moscow.  They are off to climb Mt Elbrus (5642m) – the highest mountain in Europe.

Nicky, Mike, Marthinus, Michelle, Nico and Schalk have all climbed with Sean on other mountains. Christiaan, Pavel, Jurgen, Julian and Sharmein form the rest of the team.

Last year […]