A sea of clouds |
Looking southeast from refuge, 4060m |
6:20 in the morning, summit day |
Ushba is an amazing peak |
Nikolas and Vaggelis at the altitude of 5000m |
Traversing the Elbrus East going to the col |
On the col 5300m, Nikolas |
Dimitris Titopoulos on the col |
The last meter before the West summit 5642m |
Nikolas on the top of Europe, Elbrus 5642m |
Ebrus East 5621m |
Elbrus 5642, Nikolas |
Nikolas and Dimitris |
Nikolas and Dimitris |
Nikolas, Dimitris and Vangelis on the summit of Elbrus |
Nikolas, Dimitris and Vangelis on the summit of Elbrus |
Ushba from the summit |
Elbrus East 5621m |
The west view |
Looking south |
Elbrus East 5621m, Nikolas |
Caucasus mountain range |
Nikolas, Vangelis and Dimitris on Elbrus East 5621m |
Nikolas after the hand-spring on Elbrus East |
Elbrus West from photo taken from East peak |
A stop on the route back from Elbrus East |
Vangelis, Dimitris and Nikolas outside of the refuge |
The toilet of the refuge is the most dangerous place of the normal route to Elbrus |
Outside of the refuge |
View from Terksol village |
Ushba glacier |
Nikolas on Ushba glacier, trekking to camp 1 |
A spectacular peak, photo taken from camp 1 |
Ushba and Ushba icefall |
Victor on Camp 1 |
Elbrus |
Climbing the Ushba's icefall |
The icefall has many crevansses |
Roped 5 climbers together we cross the icefall |
Crossing a cravens over a dangerous bridge |