Main option
Day 1
Check in to the hotel of the Terskol village. Meeting with the guides. Dating evening in a hotel cafe.
Day 2
Breakfast. Receive safety instructions. Exit to the acclimatization trip. Ascent to the Observatory and the falls Return to the hotel. Recreation.
Day 3
Breakfast. Rise on the cableway of Cheget resort. Acclimatization exit to the top. The first test of equipment. A photograph of mountain landscapes, admiration for the peaks of Elbrus. Evening tea, stories about ascents, "black climbers", the miner and other horrors!
Day 4
Transfer to the village of Azau. Ascent by cable car to the 3800 m mark (Garabashi station). Hiking with equipment to the mark of 4100 m (Shelter of eleven). Accommodation in a shelter. Radial exit to the Pastukhov Rocks to the level of 4800 m, 6 km. Cats, ligaments, ice drills. Rock-ice occupation. Getting ready to climb. Return to base. Dinner is cooked on gas dumplings.
Day 5
Recreation. We gain strength before climbing.
Day 6
Early rise. When the weather is nice, we exit in the dark (2 nights). We make an attempt to climb the Western peak (5642 m). For any result, we go down in a great mood. Recreation. Celebrating victory or making plans for the future ...
Day 7
A spare day in case of bad weather.
Attention! It takes two days to climb (sixth or seventh). The guide decides to climb according to weather conditions and the condition of the group.
Day 8
Breakfast. Departure. Making plans for new peaks.
Economical option
We go up from Terskol on foot - Maiden’s Spit waterfall - 105 pickets - ice base - go up to the mark of 4100 m (the area of the former Shelter is eleven) - climb - go down or on foot or by cable car