Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Checkout Kurt's latest update from Russia in the link in my post above...the team has arrived safely in Russia. I clicked on comments on Kurt's trip journal to see a comment about Ryan....Romney's VP pick.....Ryan is a mountaineer with 40+ summits on Colorado's 14ers.

Kurt and his team made it to the summit of Mt. Elbrus. Great photos of the Russian mountain side, flowers, hut and Mt. Elbrus....oh, and of course Kurt and his team too.

Check it out:

http://sierramountaineering.com/blog/

April Mayhew and her team reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro..so far they have posted a photo...trip report will follow soon. Check out the link in my post above.

Wow, is the Betsy Northam on Kilimanjaro the wife of Crazy Jack? Congrats to the team!

On September 23 Kurt Wedburg achieved his goal of climbing all 7 Summits. Check out his website at SMI link in one of the above posts.

The Carstenz Pyramid is interesting, but holy cow is it expensive. Also, getting a great view from the summit always seems to be an issue. It's rare to see a summit picture where it's not smothered in mist and clouds.

Kurt's making presentations about the trip at various A16 locations:
http://www.adventure16.com/events.asp?itemid=174&submit=getrecord&recordid=213

2600fromatari....thank you very much for letting us know Kurt will present his Everest trip.

I've climbed Kos, not by driving up, but by packing in from Victoria in a week-long trip, hut-to-hut. So I'm sorry to see that my sole 7 Summit claim is laid waste.

However, the highest point actually owned by Australia (the Continent) outside of Antarctica is actually Mawson Peak (9,006 ft), on Heard Island. I'm nominating it as the Australasian highest point. Not only is it a difficult trailhead to access, the bloody thing seems to be in the process of blowing up!

Now, that's a challenge.

Kurt has been very busy climbing. Wow...he travels all over the world.