Interesting, nonstandard program of climbing the highest mountain of Europe - Elbrus. The route from East is definitely more hard than the Classic route from the South, but far less crowded and authentic!

Elbrus is a place of the constant pilgrimage of people who love climbing and skiing mountains. As Elbrus officially acknowledged as the highest mountain of Europe, climbing its summit is a part of the popular climbing program "Seven Summits", - it attracts climbers from all the world. There is other reason of the high popularity of Elbrus – its technical easiness and accessibility. Many beginners start their climbing carrier on Elbrus, getting from this mountain their first lessons, measuring by its altitude their willingness to improve themselves physically and mentally..

Climb of the volcano Kluchevskaya Sopka is not particularly  difficult technically - the complexity of the program is different. This hard and challeging, climb of Kluchevskaya sopka can be compared to climbing of seventhousanders - extremely hard and long ascent, inability to get a preliminary acclimatization - these factors are the main challenges for the ascension of Kluchevskaya Sopka. In addition, it should be remembered that Kluchevskaya Sopka - is an active volcano, which erupted constantly - in the scientific sense of that - only lava flows from it not every year. In that too, there is a certain specifics of the program - in the event of an unforeseen increase the activity of volcano climbing may not take place for objective reasons. There were cases when the climbing of Kluchevskaya was not possible even in the case of a small activation of volcanic processes - temperature of the cone of volcano rises and because of that begins a continuous rockfall. In other words, getting ready for the ascent to Kluchevskaya Sopka, we must be prepared for any eventuality - that's Kamchatka.

Our coming Far East expedition - climbing the most interesting volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, the base camp is organized on the boat. For ascents, the group lands on the island for 1-2 days, after the ascent, returns back to the boat and sails to the next island. This combined program includes an interesting route along the Pacific Ocean, with a visit to the most inaccessible corners of the Kuril Ridge and climbing the most significant and highest volcanoes. Volcano Alaid is the highest mountain in the Sakhalin Region; in the modern Russian literature it was chosen as the scene in the Strugatsky brothers' science fiction novel "The White Cone of Alaid" Of course, this place is fantastic even without any novels - one such journey will leave you with the impressions and memories for whole your life!

The most difficult of all the classic ascent routes of Mount Elbrus - the climbing route to the West Summit from the West. The length of the route is rather long; on the route there are medium steep sections which require using of the climbing equipment. The program is suitable for participants with experience of serious mountain trekking or alpine climbing experience in primary and secondary categories of difficulty.