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Stories about alpine climbing trips
- South Ushba via 3 buttress
- Ojos del Salado Arg side 2023
- Khan Tengri Edge of risk
- Dykh Tau and Bezengi 2023
- Mount Belukha - the Princess of Altai
- Climbing Alpamayo 2023
- Season 2023 completed
- Season 2023 specifics
- Climbing Monblan 2022
- Lifeless Sierra smiles
- Cerro Torre 50
- Siula Grande
- Climbing Kazbek. Georgia
- Ushba mountain beach
- North Ushba climb
- Morocco, Toubkal climbing
- The Life of the Valley of Sun
- Ushba. Forbidden Mountain
- Peak Lenin Climb
- Kilimanjaro climb
- Elbrus. Today, yesterday and tomorrow
- Mount Kenya climb
- Wind, Rocks and South Cross
- Kluchevskaya Sopka climb
- Peru climbing
- Touching the Legend
- Solo climb of Matterhorn
- Elbrus. Interview with rescuer
- Elbrus - the live legend
- Tian Shan, Peak Komsomol climb
- Khan Tnegri from the North
- International Ushba climb 2002
- Ushba 2002. Author Sergey Zabrodin
- Svanetia, Caucasus from the South
- Climbing Matterhorn - first article
- Climbing Belukha, Altay
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Rockclimbing stories
- Climbing in Mallorca January 2023
- Montserrat
- Majorca rockclimbing report 2014
- Rockclimbing in Peru - Huaraz 2023
- Mallorca rockclimbing December 2023
- Georgia Rockcimbing spring 2019
- Madagascar rockclimbing
- Rockclimbing trip to Kalymnos, Autumn 2014
- Rockclimbing trip to Kalymnos, Spring 2014
- Rockclimbimg in Cuba
- Quadras or the architecture of the gods
- Rockcliming Armenia
- Cuba far away
- Crimea winter Rockclimbing
- Gear reviews, repairs, fails
- Iceclimbing trip stories
- Codex of Mountain Guide
Stories about alpine climbing trips
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Thank you for taking your time to look at our mountaineering storybook page. It contains the largest thematic collection of the texts about adventures and ascents in completely different parts of the globe. Through the eyes of the personal experience. I hope you will find here something that you will remember and at least for a while, ant which will captivate your attention with the radiance of the mountain peaks, which seem so inaccessible from the plain...
Climbing in the Caucasus – stories
Climbing mount Dykh Tau in the season 2023
Modern realities of Russian mountaineering – Caucasus, Gestola and Ararat
Climbing Mount Kazbek, Georgia
Climbing Mount North Ushba, Georgia
Mount Ushba – forbidden peak
Mount Ushba hba mountain beach
International expedition to Mount Ushba in 2002
Mount Ushba 2002 (Sergey Zabrodin)
Svaneti – Caucasus from the South (Vladimir Yanochkin)
Mount Elbrus – yesterday, today..Tomorrow?
Mount Elbrus – Living legend
Mount Elbrus – lifeguard interview
Climbing in the Alps – stories
Mattrehorn – Touching the Legend
Matterhorn – first article from the first ascent
Matterhorn - winter solo climbing the Lyon ridge
Climbing in South America (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina) - stories
Climbing Ojos del Salado Argentina 2023
Pilot Ring – climbing in Patagonia - Mount Fitz Roy
Vayvash – The smile of the lifeless Sierra
Wind, rocks and the Southern Cross
Latitude 8 degrees south
Sunny Valley Life – Santa Cruz
Ascents in Altai - stories
Mount Beluga climb – Altai Princess
Altai – Climbing Mount Belukha
Ascents in Africa - stories
Morocco, climbing Mount Toubkal
Africa – climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Climbing Mount Kenya
Ascents in Asia (Pamir, Tien Shan) - stories
Peak Khan Tengri – Edge of Risk
Kyrgyzstan – Climbing Lenin Peak
Tien Shan – Climbing Komsomol Peak
Climbing Peak Khan Tengri from the north
Climbing in Kamchatka - stories
Climbing volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka
Theory of paradoxes or the Kamchatka sea lions
So, as you know, mountaineering is the perfect combination of meaningless with the useless. But there is a nuance... Although it is useless and harmful to do meaningless things, it is so pleasant, especially to spite those who approach the issue of their existence solely from the point of view of practical benefit. The best solution to this problem - if you want to do something useless - try to find a meaning in it and explain it to others))
People often ask me - why you stand on your hands at the mountain summits, what kind meaning is in that?! I explain: I have a whole concept for this action, so here you are not mistaken, it is a completely meaningful process!
Firstly, my point of view is that the mountaineering is not something that you should do at any cost, "on the teeth" crawl to the top. Mountaineering is a much broader concept: it is training - tactical, physical, psychological, self-discipline, keeping oneself in perfect physical shape. The peak that you can climb is not the mountain that will take all your strength and power to the last drop, drain you from all your energy. Climbing is pure pleasure of movement, but never it is a masochism, reckless risk or self-torture. Unfortunately, not understanding this simple truth leads to a lot of accidents and disappointments.
I'll tell you from my own experience - if you still have the strength after climbing the summit, for example, to do gymnastics as in my case (which is useful even without mountaineering), then you have chosen the correct mountain for your climb as well as the route.
So, a handstand at the summit is a proof and demonstration (primarily to myself) that the summit was not conquered at the expense of all the last forces. And of course, aesthetics with a slight accent of show off...
Leader of the climbing expeditions, author of the texts and photos - Alex Trubachev
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AlexClimb Rule #1 - Safety First
From the very beginning of our activity, here nearly 16 years, the first Principle of work of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb is the Safety Priority. On the basis of this Principle all process of training is based, all programs and rounds are developed and carried out only within this main principle. We consider that at professional approach to development of programs, at personal discipline and correctly put motivation - occupations by mountaineering and rock-climbing are COMPLETELY safe. And from the return - all troubles and accidents in our sport come from nonprofessionalism, from ignorance or neglect by elementary standards of safety, from irrational motivation, from revaluation of own forces and opportunities. All these prerequisites we COMPLETELY EXCLUDE in our work - ours Rock-climbing, Ice climbing and Mountaineering are based on one Principle - the Safety Priority. In rock-climbing, mountaineering and ice climbing, the Priority of Safety of MCS AlexClimb-is your personal security and comfort irrespective of, than we are engaged - we train muscles and we work technology of the movement in the sports hall and on the rock climbing wall, we make the way through snowstorm to top or we relax on golden sand of the Caribbean beach after hot day of trainings on rocks. The Safety priority - the main credo of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb.
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