Elbrus Itinerary
Elbrus is now open again so we will be running trips again this summer 2012.
We offer a number of different ways for our clients to climb Mt Elbrus, and continuously work with our Russian partners, headed by Alexey Shustrov, to come up with a range of options that will suit most people.
This season we are offering fixed departure dates for those people wishing to join a group. This group may be made up of climbers from different nationalities and will be guided by one of our experienced Russian guides. These fixed departures are all 9 day trips and climb climb the mountain by one of 3 possible routes; the North, South or West sides, details below.
We also offer a private trip, if you have a group already made up, with a private Russian guide, as well as the option to have a western IFMGA guide to accompany you throughout the trip. The programs we offer below are the minimum time you would need to climb a mountain of this altitude, should you wish a longer acclimatisation period or to extend your trip in any other way please do get in touch.
All the trips offer the same high quality service to and from Mineralnie Vody airport.
You can download the full range of options in PDF form.
Here is a sample of our program from the North
Day 1 Arrive Min Vody - Transfer to Piatigorsk
Day 2 Transfer to Hathansu Meadow 2500m (depending on snow conditions you may have to walk part of the way carrying your equipment).
Day3 Acclimatisation climb to Mushroom rocks 3400 or Uncle Nicks hut 3760m and return to Hathansu Meadow.
Day 4 Climb to Uncle Nick's hut 3760m our base for our summit climb
Day 5 Acclimatisation on Slopes of Mt Elbrus usually we climb to about 4500m
Day 6 Climb Mt Elbrus 5642m
Day 7 Spare day incase of bas weather
Day 8 Descend to Hathansu 2500m transfer to Piatigorsk
Day 9 Transfer to airport and home.
All our climbs will follow a similar program