Mt. Everest 2005: Alpindustria Adventure Team (7 Summits Club Everest Expedition) Everest expedition: Abramov Alexander reports from Everest Base camp : SNOW

Update: Abramov Alexander (expedition leader) reports from Everest BC (5100m), Tibet. April 19: Today the whole team went up, part of the team is spending night in IBC, and another part have already arrived in ABC: Nikolay Cherny, Alexander Iakovenko, Ivan Dusharin, Yuri Taidakov, Igor Pokhvalin and those who arrived earlier. Practically the whole non-russian part of the expedition is in IBC. Dmitry Moskalev got ill - he has a fever 38C. Most probably he will go down for a couple of days.  There are 2 people left in BC now - Andrey Selivanov and Alexander Abramov. Abramov is trying to get quickly acclimatized and preparing to go up - hopefully tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The guys will spend 3 nights at 6300m, after this part of the group goes to the North Col, and part goes down. It started snowing today and got colder. I talked with all the groups on the radio. Everyone is feeling good. Korobeshko Ludmila AlpIndustria Adventure team Project

In seasons 2003 and 2004 Russian Adventure Team organized 2 successful commercial expeditions on Everest from Tibet side. Based on the last 2 years' experience, RAT is launching another Everest expedition in spring 2005.

"Looks like people trust us, - says Alexander Abramov (Alex),  the founder and permanent leader of Russian Adventure Team Everest Expeditions   - and this year the list of participants is practically ready before the New Year.

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