Cybercasts

 

Hey there friends, family, and loved ones, this is Vern Tejas reporting for Alpine Ascents first Mount Elbrus trip of the season. All the people on the team have arrived; all their bags have finally made it in.

And we boogied all the way from St. Peters today, St. Petersburg, all the way down to Mineral Vody, and then took a bus up in to the Baksan valley. We’re now in a small town, called Cheget, it’s a ski resort at 7,000 feet above sea level. And the weather is/has been atrocious, it’s been raining. But we were greeted by a nice Shashlik, or what we like to say “shish kabob” in the States, meal when we arrived. And we’ve done a gear check and everyone seems to have everything they need. And we’re preparing to have a great day tomorrow, doing some acclimatization hikes.

So you too can enjoy us and stay tuned for our further adventures, by tuning in to this station every day about this time. We are looking forward to broadcasting a cyber-blast every day, so please if you want to stay in touch, that’s the way to do it. Thank you so much.

Oh, and we are working on a team name, so right now we’re just “The Cheerful Summiteers” but that could change into something a little more democratic and elected, so that may change from time to time, but know right now that you’re with the first team for Elbrus this year. For Alpine Ascents, this is Vern Tejas saying good night and god bless.

Hello there friends, family, and loved ones, this is Arabs At Altitude, Vern Tejas, Guide, reporting. It’s been a very hectic day; we were able to come down the mountain after yesterday’s successful summit. We left in a blizzard at high camp, it was blowing, and snowing, and sleeting, and hailing, and winds were gusting quite high. We very fortunately went to the summit on a better day, today and it looks like tomorrow as well are going to be horrible.

But we did make it down, everybody got a shower and we got food in our bellies and we’re all heading out to different ends of the earth right now. Most everybody’s taken off and this will be our last cybercast. Just calling in from the base of Mount Elbrus and telling you that we’re heading home. Kind of taking the long way, through Moscow, but we should be home soon.

So thank you very much for listening and being part of our expedition. Ciao for now from Elbrus, the highest point in all of Europe!

Hello there friends, family, and lovers, this is Arabs At Altitude and what an altitude day it was today!

We left early and things, right at the beginning, started going wrong. We had clouds and wind, a little bit different than the weather report that we got, and as the day wore on, it got windier and cloudier. Eventually we were in a whiteout and probably about 60 mph winds, up to 100 km, and the team pulled through. We made it to the top, got back down, all in one piece. Everybody is elated at our great success.

They actually went a day earlier than I thought they could, but even these great beginners that we have, along with some/several seasoned veterans, we just kept plugging away at it. They had a great attitude and lo and behold, we got to the top of Europe. So big celebration, big rounds of “Yahoo!” for everybody here on the team, they did great today!

Thank you for following us, and hopefully we’ll be able to give you an update tomorrow. So stay tuned for the further adventures of Arabs At Altitude!

Hey there friends, family, and loved ones, this is Arabs At Altitude calling in from 3800 meters above sea level. It was a very beautiful day again. The wind has picked up a bit, but we were still able to go out on the glacier, walk through many crevasses, and finally get to a great area for practicing ice climbing. So we did that this morning, then this afternoon we focused on all the things we’re going to need to do for the summit push.

We’re planning on going up tomorrow and hopefully get to the top. We’ve been promised some wind by the weather report, but we’re hoping that we’ll get in and get down before it really hits full force. So stay tuned to the further adventures of Arabs At Altitude, and know that everybody’s doing fine.

Hey there friends, family, and loved ones, this is Arabs At Altitude reporting in from our high camp, at 3800 meters above sea level. It was a beautiful day, we had sun and clear weather; we could see all the Caucus Range. Beautiful, as we ascended and went up the Pastukov Rocks on acclimatization hike.

People were doing quite well, we were very happy to see that all the practice that we had down below is paying off now; people have got the breathing down, doing good foot work, and basically having a good time on the mountain. We’re hoping tomorrow to get more acclimatization in and then start preparing for our summit push.

So stay tuned to the further adventures of Arabs At Altitude.