From Sean – ‘ today we went up to Pastukhov Rocks (4700 m).  We’ve descended and are camped at 4300 m. Weather isn’t great – white out right now and snow showers forecast for the next few days.  In our tents and busy cooking 20 minute noodles’.

Message from Sean yesterday morning  – ‘Best camp at 4200m with a view.  Weather good for now’.

Message yesterday afternoon – ‘Snowing heavily now. Great fun!  Went up to 4400m’.

Message from Sean is that everyone is well and that today’s acclimatisation hike was a good slog up to 3150m – in denims.  Instead of doing the usual route to Cheget, they went to the Observation station and had fantastic views of Mt Elbrus.  The weather was beautiful.  But the best news of all is that […]

Bags still missing – at least they have head gear for summit night.

The group flew from Moscow to Mineralnye Vody (Mineral Water) this morning and then drove for 3 hours to Terskol.  Tony, Sean and Dido are frustratingly still without their gear bags.  We are all hoping that the bags arrive in Terskol tomorrow during their acclimatisation hike up the ski lift, and along Cheget ridge to about 3400m.  Brand new silver studded […]

Sean, Dido and Tony arrived in Moscow – all fine but without their gear bags!  Tomorrow they leave for Terskol so let’s hope Etihad airways moves mountains to get the missing bags delivered before Thursday.

The group at Red Square

To have a look at the weather forecast log onto http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Mt-Elbrus/6day/top

Departure day for the group – well, for half the group.  The Fuchsloch family of 4 are already in Russia enjoying the sights of St Petersburg and will meet Tony, Dido and Sean tomorrow in Moscow at the Aquamarine hotel.

Their flight departs at 20:30 tonight from Joburg, will go via Abu Dhabi and will land in Moscow at 14:00 tomorrow.

Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe. It is situated in Russia and it lies within the Caucasus mountain range on the border of Georgia. Getting there is like taking a journey into the early 70’s. Russia is a non-stop ‘retro’ experience. Little has changed since the ‘Iron Curtain’ era. In […]

Noseweek have written two articles filled with defamatory allegations about Sean.  These articles contain outright lies and factual distortions.

Sean’s response:

Two weeks after publishing a malicious story online and in his very skinny magazine Noseweek, Martin Welz (editor) called me for my point of view at last. I was waiting to see how long it would […]