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The value of a real journey is not in achieving a single goal: be it a summit or a new route category.
Impressions should be varied – this makes each of them infinitely more vivid.
Visiting the Temple of Garni in Armenia – an addition to the rock climbing program.
Gradually, another layer of travel has grown around my mountain routes – what I jokingly call "the side effect of mountaineering." This is what goes beyond the climb, but makes it even more exciting.
Relaxation and excursions on Lake Garda in Italy after climbing Mont Blanc
Small towns, museums, ancient castles and strange local legends, streets where you can stroll along after dropping off your heavy climbing backpack at a cozy hotel.
A trip to Venice after climbing Matterhorn
Think about it:
Visiting Peru, even with the most ambitious mountaineering goals, and not seeing with your own eyes the one-of-a-kind monument of the vanished Inca civilization – Machu Picchu?!
Not strolling the narrow streets of Cusco between ancient granite walls, built in mysterious ways by unknown masters? To ignore this whole layer of incredible impressions would be unforgivable.
The most famous ancient monument in South America - Machu Picchu
Still, some places on our planet are worth seeing them with your own eyes at least once!
...When, emaciated, with a nose sunburned from climbing Mount Huascaran, I reached the ruins of Machu Picchu for the first time, my amazement knew no bounds. Expecting to see a boring tourist attraction, I was stunned. The monument was alive, breathing history, filled with a palpable, mysterious atmosphere.
Visiting Machu Picchu and other monuments in the Cusco area after climbing Nevado Alpamayo
Since then, visiting Machu Picchu has become an essential part of any itinerary for me in Peru. Every time I visit the ruins of an ancient city, I make new discoveries, noticing small details I'd previously missed...
Inca Gold at the Gold Museum in Bogotá - a tour during my rock climbing program in Colombia
This is just one example of how a historical tour unexpectedly enhances the experience of climbing mountains. I have many successful combinations:
Georgia, Svaneti: Climbing Mount Laila, Tetnuld, or Ushba / Mestia museums
Norway: Ice climbing / excursion to Bergen and a walk along the Bryggen embankment, where the smell of ancient wooden houses mingles with the aromas of fresh seafood
Bryggen embankment in Bergen, Norway - excursion option during my ice climbing program
Spain, Mallorca: Rock climbing / exploring the atmosphere of medieval towns of the Island
Italy, Val d'Aosta: Climbing Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, or Monte Rosa / Getting to know the area's feudal history / Trip to Venice
Spain, Menorca: Rock Climbing / Immersion in the mysterious atmosphere of the Talayotic Civilization, which fills every nook and corner of the island
Naveta de Tudóns - the most famous prehistoric monument in Menorca
Egypt: rock climbing / visiting the Great Pyramids
Bolivia: climbing Huayna Potosi / trip to the Salar de Uyuni or Lake Titicaca
I could go on and on - believe me. I found, experienced and developed the program for each of these excursions myself, finding the most valuable things to share it with like-minded people.
A tour to the pyramids in Gaza - a good supplement to a rock climbing program in Egypt
Museum tours, walks in the ancient atmospheric places, visits to cultural, historical, or natural attractions - all this makes any mountaineering program more complete, emotionally rich, and memorable.
An excursion to the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia
While expanding the range of attention, the core of my programs always remains mountaineering and the mountains.
Climbing to the summit is the central emotion of the journey, and any excursion blocks, regardless of their duration, are merely a "beautiful setting for a precious stone." Inexpensive in itself, it doubles the value of what it contains.
Visiting the medieval castles of Val d'Aosta, Italy, after climbing Monte Rosa
Ready-made excursion blocks are an option; they can be included in the climbing program at your discretion and choice.
The most part of the expenses (airfare, insurance, accommodation, transportation) is usually distributed among the main part of the program – a mountain expedition, climbing, trekking, or training module.
That allows me to organize an excursion program on a significantly smaller budget than if buying a ready-made product from a travel agency.
Trip to the Lofoten Islands as part of my ice climbing program in Norway
All the excursion programs I offer, even the most interesting ones, are rarely organized separately from the mountaineering or climbing – their value lies precisely in the combination of activities! First we climb the mountain, then we enrich ourselves culturally.
Mountains provide height, and the excursion part of the program provides depth. It is thanks to this depth that the Journey becomes real
Text and photographs by Alexey Trubachev
International mountain guide, rock and ice climbing coach
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Our Principles
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.
AlexClimb Rule #2 - Leave No Trace
Closely interacting with Nature, working with the active programs in mountains, woods, lakes and rivers, we perfectly understand the importance of carefull and respectfull bahavior towards the Nature, for its resources. From the very beginning of our outdoor-activity we adopted rules of Leave No Trace technique - the standard of behavior of the person accepted in all the civilized world in relation to environment and especially - to the wild nature. After all on the relation of people to the nature near which they exist, itself can draw dalekoidushchy conclusions on the relation of these people to... Where and as we didn't travel - we don't reserve any garbage, we try to reduce whenever possible our influence on environment to a minimum. We clear earlier zagryazyonny tourist parking of the left garbage, we take out and we take out to utilization places that to us other people left there. We consider that only thus, at personal individual consciousness of each citizen, each tourist, climber or autotraveller, we will be able to keep the nature surrounding us in its state, natural, suitable for life, - in it pledge of the healthy future for ourselves and our children.
