Thursday 4th July 2019 ‘Adventure is worthwhile’, Aristotle So this am we were up bright an early. Breakfast was 2 fried eggs with bread and porridge. Today I had an iffy tummy…something was going on. I felt pretty squeamish also but forced down the two eggs and a slice of bread. I tried my hardest…

Wednesday 3rd July 2019 ‘Life is short. Go to the mountains and never look back’ Today was an exact repeat of yesterday apart from us leaving later as we were in no hurry to get to Assault Camp 2. You have to appreciate Assualt Camp 2 sits up the mountain and is literally built on…

Tuesday 2nd July 2019 ‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone’, Neale Donald Walsch After another pretty sleepless night we were out of bed at 7.15 for an 8am breakfast before leaving Basecamp 1. Today we were hiking up to Assault Camp 2 to drop off half of our equipment before coming all…

Monday 1st July 2019 ‘As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen’, AA Milne After a restless night I woke up this morning early and anxious! As Edmund Hillary once said “Its not the mountain we conquer but ourselves” and today I must begin to face my fears. A…

Sunday 30th June 2019 ‘The best education I have ever received is through travel”, Lisa Ling View across Moscow from hotel window We headed to the airport at 10.15am, to catch a 2pm flight to Mineralyne Vody, leaving the city of Moscow behind with its blue skies. There is only one road in and out…

Saturday 29th June 2019 (and the evening before) ‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page’, Greta’s Travel We have landed in Moscow, the capital city of Russia! Approximately 13.2 million people live here. It is additionally the second most crowded city in Europe and the eleventh biggest…

Friday 28th June 2019 ‘Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire’, Jennifer Lee We have chosen the first two weeks of July as the main climbing season is June-September.  With Elbrus having a permanent snow line at around 3350, and temperatures rarely rising above freezing at night we felt July may…

Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23rd June 2019 Cairngorms National Park “Not all who wander are lost”, J.R.R. Tolkien So this weekend is our last weekend before our Russian adventure begins. We wanted to make this one a wild, long and pretty hard going adventure to train (some may say punish) the body and mind. Our…

Sunday 16th June 2019 Invervar, Glen Lyon Today we were heading back out on the hills of Scotland and it felt good. It had been 3 whole weeks since ‘therapy’ and today we agreed if it was rain, hale or snow…we were still heading out, it was time to dust off those cobwebs. As our…

 Thursday 27th June 2019  “The biggest adventure you can take us to live the life of your dreams”,                                                                   Oprah Winfrey  Mount Elbrus is the…