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The Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the world's seven continents, have never been conquered by Russians in one year.
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It is a challenge for the Alpari: On Top of the World project, a unique collaboration of the most qualified russian mountain climbers and Alpari, an internationally known Forex broker.
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The sponsor of this project is the Alpari Brand, a leading name in online brokerage services. Having a global clientele and well established in the world's finance hubs, Alpari is proud to add the Seven Summits to the list of its activities.
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The project's goal is to climb the Seven Summits in 300 days! The team is going to climb over 40,000 meters in total in all corners of the world, where they will have to experience the full spectrum of environmental conditions.
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The idea of the Seven Summits first belonged to American businessman and adventurer Richard Bass. He started with Elburg and went on, bagging all seven by 1983.
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The Alpari: On Top of the World team is using advanced routes.
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Alpari already has several successful climbs: in 2010 Alpari team raised the company flag on the top of Mont Blanc and Mount Kilimanjaro. "It's a good tradition. We all climb together, overcoming obstacles, cold weather, difficult conditions. But we make it," commented Alpari Chairman Andrey Dashin.
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Mount Everest is 8848m height, it's the world's highest peak. Climbers have to survive in extreme conditions of the 'Death Zone'.
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The highest mountain in the world attracts well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers. The mountain still has many inherent dangers such as altitude sickness, weather and wind.
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Cerro Aconcagua (official name) with its 6,962m is the highest mountain in South America.
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It is located in the Andes mountain range, in the province Mendoza, Argentine. The summit is located 15 kilometres from the international border with Chile and about 80 km northeast of the Chilean capital of Santiago.
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The mountain and its surroundings are situated in the Aconcagua Provincial Park. Aconcagua is considered to be a rather easy mountain for climbers.
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The problems could be provoked by effects of altitude. Altitude sickness affects the most part of the climbers.
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Kilimanjaro is a 5895m high extinct volcano, with 3 peaks: Kibo, Shira and Mawenzi! Kilimanjaro is the highest summit of Africa and one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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"Climbing is very inspiring and morale-boosting," commented the head of the public relations department of Alpari Valeriy Tarasov.
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"Alpari is a leader in the Forex industry, there are no heights we can't reach", he added.
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Lyudmila Korobeshko is the captain of the team and the only Russian woman who had summited Mount Everest and had been to the North and South Poles.
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Ivan Dusharin, the "patriarch of Russian alpinism" is an internationally known 65 year old climber.
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Maksim Shakirov, author of "New Year on the Peaks", planted the flag of the 2014 Olympic Games atop Mount Everest and Mount Olympus.
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Lyudmila Korobeshko is the first Russian woman to have summited all seven mountains (2010).
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The first woman to climb the Seven Summits was Juko Tabei from Japan who finished in 1992. The women's record belongs Annabelle Bond from England who scaled all seven peaks in 360 days. Fyodor Konyukhov was the first Russian to complete the Seven Summits, finishing in 1997.
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