The region of the massif Turgen-Ula is very compact. So, it was used for exploring-pioneering values and further tourist groups were going to traditional routes to mountains of Western Tuva to Shapshalsky ridge or ridge Cagan-Shibetu.
It is well-known, that Kamchatka associates with volcanoes, geysers, thermal springs, salmon and ocean. But only a few from European part of Russia were lucky enough to go there. Many are driven back by distances and lack of information.
20 kilometers away from the Main Caucasus Range, quite independently and separately, elevated by the force of Hermes to five and a half kilometres into the sky, rises the white dome of the highest place in Europe - Mount Elbrus.
A way from the Russian check-point to a Mongolian one goes via the pass Durbet-Daba (2400 m), neutral zone is 23 km wide. Straight at the pass boundary posts (old, of soviet times and modern ones) and a turnpike are placed.
I was 16, when I went to mountains for the first time. It was the love at a single glance.
From that moment I have gone in to mountaineering seriously. I was the participant and prize-winner of many championships of the country (that time it was USSR).
Right in the South of the Altaic region there is a blank spot in the strict sense of the word that attracts tourists’ attention – it is mountain range Tabin-Bogdo-Ula, the most powerful centre of glaciation in the Altaic.
The illustrated review of the mountain region.
The illustrated list of passes. (the grades of difficulties are given according to april-may conditions)
Today, 15.08, we came back BC after overcoming disaster. On August, 13 we were at about 8350 meters when approximately at 10.30 local time of all of us were engulfed in a huge block of frozen snow 120* 80m in size split off the rock...
This Project is a continuation of new adventure - a kind of extreme sport that we opened in 2002 and named "B.A.S.E. climbing".
The goal is not just to get to the top (not around but via the line of the future falling), but to do a B.A.S.E. jump from the summit.
They are absolutely relative people. And it's pitiable to let them go... And to promise to write ridiculous silly letters about weather and trifling girls because there "sometimes can be very hard".
On the 21st of June 2006, at dawn on the shortest day of the year, we will start a new annual cycle of races: the winter edition of PATAGONIA EXPEDITION RACE. There will be six days of racing, six days travelling through the extreme south of Patagonia, including race stages in the regions of Torres del Paine and the island of Tierra del Fuego
