#Elbrus Report day 2 Irish team. Today we climbed to the Terskol observatory from Terskol Village. We moved our strategy from yesterday when we got high fast by chair lift to 3000 meters and then trekked to 3400 meters and return to base camp at the village of Cheget @2000 meters. Today was cardio aerobic session trek, to get the heart lungs and blood pumping to the muscles at altitude. We trekked through the village of Terskol, then up through the pine Forrest and alpine region with its beautiful display of wild flowers. It was a beautiful sight to see hundreds of different wild alpine flowers. Ascent including rest and stop off at waterfall then onto the Observatory @3100 meters it took 5 hours and the descent took 2 hours. Weather was stable in the morning and on returning back to Terskol we experienced a thunder storm just breaking out. Today we acclimatise by walking from base camp at 2000 meters and walk to the Observatory 3100 meters a total ascent of 1100 meters to one of the countries main Astronomical observation telescopes and operated by the International Center for Astronomical, Medical, and Ecological Studies, Kiev, Ucrainee This is a hugely interesting place to go and see and had been equipped for research between 1970 - 1990. Our journey took us through the lower farm region to the more rugged volcanic area before the Observatory. All the team acclimatizing great. Eating and resting well and getting their oxygen saturation up over the next two days before going higher for final days of assault on Elbrus. Keep following their progress. Tomorrow we continue our acclimatization marking sure our body is right before moving up on Elbrus.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:53:27 +0000
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