Blog by Sergey Kofanov
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You cannot imagine how often I get calls from my friends, former clients, my friends friends and even just occasional people. Everyone has the same question: “Listen, I’ve just climbed (insert here your version of mountain name) and I really liked it. Could you please recommend me somewhere else to ...
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Blog by Sergey Kofanov
From 2005 to 2008, while working as a mountain guide, I mainly focused on the program of the Seven Summits, which consists in climbing the highest peaks of every continent of our planet. During these 4 years I have done this program twice and today I want to share with you their experiences and answer questions such as how ...
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Everest, the highest point of the planet, is the only place in the world where people pass by deceased without any affection...
As a general matter, after yet another tragedy on the slopes of Mount Everest people ask a reasonable question: can these climbers’ dead bodies be removed from the slopes of the highest moun...
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Mountains care very little whether mountain guide certified or not. Do clients and mountain guides themselves need to care about the certificates?
1. CERTIFICATION: DOES IT PAY OFF?
In many countries mountain guides are required to complete necessary training and examination and get certified through professional...
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The impossible is possible. There was a time when man thought that flying was impossible. There was a time when I thought it would be impossible for two men to climb a new route in alpine style on Jannu’s north side. But with his phone call in February 2007, Valery Babanov forced me to think hard about the possibility of th...
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If you hear that climbing Kilimanjaro is a piece of cake, don’t believe it. I climbed it at least 15 times (and it is only until the moment I stopped counting), and I can assure you that every time we had to fight to survive. Probably, I can remember a couple of relatively simple climbs, but they were due to the fact that I...
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At the dawn of the 21th century the stocks of America’s most Innovative companies experienced a dramatic decline. The dot.com bubble, previously fueled with the investments, was now bursting which caused some of the largest companies to shut down their startup projects.
The investors seemed to be losing faith in the int...
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Mountains can be dreadfully unforgiving. One needs to pay constant attention even when moving on well-known terrain...
Mount Mont Blanc, for instance, which may be considered the beaten track for the professional mountain guide, is often called the ‘White Killer’ seeing as it causes deaths every year.
Every profession...
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Well, guess what: is it Mont Blanc? Kilimanjaro? Is it Aconcagua? Take a moment to read and find out what factors make mountains most guided.
It is hard to calculate the exact number of guided сlimbs on the most popular peaks in the world. Nevertheless mountainplanet.com managed to...
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Tallest does not always mean toughest. There are plenty of mountains lower than Mount Everest and much more deadly.
Some of them merely sweep away climbers from its slopes. These peaks have earned the reputation of “white killers”, “man-eaters”, “savage rocks”, etc.
The typical threats expecting climbers on the world’...
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- Mont Blanc
- Mount Everest
- Mount Etna
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Mount Fuji
- Mount Rainier
- Matterhorn
- Castor
- Zugspitze
- El Capitan
- Uluru
- Denali
- Sinai
- Aconcagua
- Eiger
- Ben Nevis
- Annapurna
- Table Mountain
- Mauna Kea
- Cotopaxi
- Mount Baker
- Mount Hood
- Elbrus
- Mount Olympus
- Mount Whitney
- Mount Ararat
- Nanga Parbat
- Half Dome
- Chimborazo
- Monte Rosa
- Pollux
- Triglav
- Aiguille du Midi
- Marmolada
- Mount Kosciuszko
- Aoraki / Mount Cook
- Mount Kailash
- Gran Paradiso
- Huayna Picchu
- Mount Kenya
- Lhotse
- Orizaba
- Fitz Roy
- Cerro Torre
- Mount Logan
- Mount Adams
- Ojos del Salado
- Toubkal
- Alpamayo
- Mount Roraima
- Dent Blanche
- Cho Oyu
- Manaslu
- Kala Patthar
- Broad Peak
- Puncak Jaya
- Dhaulagiri
- Mount Kazbek
- Mount Damavand
- Kangchenjunga
- Huayna Potosí
- Breithorn
- Vinson Massif
- Mount Foraker
- Trango Tower
- Mera Peak
- Mount St. Helens
- Jannu
- Khan Tengri
- Meru Peak
- Mount Shuksan
- Llullaillaco
- Antisana
- Grandes Jorasses
- Ras Dashen
- Mount Aspiring / Tititea
- Shkhara
- Lenin Peak
- Shishapangma
- Hoverla
- Pumori
- Mount Townsend
- Yerupajá
- Nevado Sajama
- Teide
- Mount Stanley
- Muztagh Ata
- Thabana Ntlenyana
- К2
- Mawenzi
- Mount Tasman
- Cerro Bonete
- Mount Sidley
- Mount Hunter
- Mount Narodnaya
- Grauspitz
- Zla Kolata
- CLASSIFICATION OF GUIDED CLIMBS
- HOW MUCH MONEY AND TIME YOU WILL NEED TO CLIMB ALL 7 SUMMITS
- How To Remove Dead Bodies From Mount Everest?
- TOP 10 MOST RECOGNIZED MOUNTAIN GUIDES CERTIFICATIONS
- The Magic Pillar. A pure alpine-style first ascent of the west ridge of Jannu in Nepal (article from American Alpine Journal)
- ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE CLIMBING MOUNT KILIMANJARO SAFELY
- HOW CAN INTERNET STARTUP MAKE CLIMBING SAFER?
- MOUNTAIN GUIDING: 10 VITAL TRUTHS TO UPGRADE SKILLS AND AVOID DEADLY RISKS
- TOP-10 MOST GUIDED MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD AND WHY
- TOP-10 KILLER MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD
- 10 REASONS TO MAKE MACEDONIA YOUR NEXT CLIMBING DESTINATION
- Mount Everest in Numbers
- Top-5 Female Climbers or Queens of Modern Climbing (Part One)
- 7 RULES TO PREVENT DEADLY RISKS WHILE CLIMBING
- HOW TO TRAIN FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE CLIMBS
- Karl Unterkircher Award 2018 nominees
- Climbing Season Closed: A Look Back at Record Year on Everest
- Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell set a new speed record on the Nose
- Mike Horn to climb Nanga Parbat
- Three common mistakes Mountain Guides make and how to avoid them
- OPEN by Sergey Kofanov (essay from Alpinist Magazine)
- 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD AVOID DOING IN NEPAL
- Kiwi mountaineer Chris Jensen Burke conquers Mt Kanchenjunga - world's third highest peak
- Woman climber Nima Jangmu Sherpa sets world record
- On top of the world! Lionel Messi thanks climber as Argentina star's shirt reaches Mount Everest summit
- Israeli mountain climber thought dead, rescued alive