Alpine stories
MCS AlexClimbStories about alpine climbing trips
Thank you for taking your time to look at our mountaineering storybook page. It contains the largest thematic collection of the texts about adventures and ascents in completely different parts of the globe.
Through the eyes of the personal experience. I hope you will find here something that you will remember and at least for a while, ant which will captivate your attention with the radiance of the mountain peaks, which seem so inaccessible from the plain.
Climbing in the Caucasus – stories
Climbing Mount Dykh Tau in Bezengi 2022
Modern realities of Russian mountaineering – Caucasus, Gestola and Ararat
Climbing Mount Kazbek, Georgia
Climbing Mount North Ushba, Georgia
Mount Ushba – forbidden peak
Mount Ushba hba mountain beach
International expedition to Mount Ushba in 2002
Mount Ushba 2002 (Sergey Zabrodin)
Svaneti – Caucasus from the South (Vladimir Yanochkin)
Mount Elbrus – yesterday, today..Tomorrow?
Mount Elbrus – Living legend
Mount Elbrus – lifeguard interview
Climbing in the Alps – stories
Mattrehorn – Touching the Legend
Matterhorn – first article from the first ascent
Matterhorn - winter solo climbing the Lyon ridge
Climbing in South America (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina) - stories
Climbing Ojos del Salado Argentina 2023
Pilot's Ring – climbing in Patagonia - Mount Fitz Roy
Vayvash – The smile of the lifeless Sierra
Wind, rocks and the Southern Cross
Latitude 8 degrees south
Sunny Valley Life – Santa Cruz
Ascents in Altai - stories
Mount Belukha climb – Altai Princess
Altai – Climbing Mount Belukha
Ascents in Africa - stories
Morocco, climbing Mount Toubkal
Africa – climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Climbing Mount Kenya
Ascents in Asia (Pamir, Tien Shan) - stories
Peak Khan Tengri – Edge of Risk
Kyrgyzstan – Climbing Lenin Peak
Tien Shan – Climbing Komsomol Peak
Climbing Peak Khan Tengri from the north
Climbing in Kamchatka - stories
Climbing volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka
Theory of paradoxes or the Kamchatka sea lions
So, as you know, mountaineering is the perfect combination of meaningless with the useless. But there is a nuance... Although it is useless and harmful to do meaningless things, it is so pleasant, especially to spite those who approach the issue of their existence solely from the point of view of practical benefit. The best solution to this problem - if you want to do something useless - try to find a meaning in it and explain it to others))
People often ask me - why you stand on your hands at the mountain summits, what kind meaning is in that?! I explain: I have a whole concept for this action, so here you are not mistaken, it is a completely meaningful process!
Firstly, my point of view is that the mountaineering is not something that you should do at any cost, "on the teeth" crawl to the top. Mountaineering is a much broader concept: it is training - tactical, physical, psychological, self-discipline, keeping oneself in perfect physical shape. The peak that you can climb is not the mountain that will take all your strength and power to the last drop, drain you from all your energy. Climbing is pure pleasure of movement, but never it is a masochism, reckless risk or self-torture. Unfortunately, not understanding this simple truth leads to a lot of accidents and disappointments.
I'll tell you from my own experience - if you still have the strength after climbing the summit, for example, to do gymnastics as in my case (which is useful even without mountaineering), then you have chosen the correct mountain for your climb as well as the route.
So, a handstand at the summit is a proof and demonstration (primarily to myself) that the summit was not conquered at the expense of all the last forces. And of course, aesthetics with a slight accent of show off...
Leader of the climbing expeditions, author of the texts and photos - Alex Trubachev
MCS EDIT 2023