BASK’s projects and expeditions

Valery Babanov’s Himalayan ascents

September-November 2003
Nuptze East (7804 m) virgin summit climb in joint team with Yuri Koshelenko

March-May 2003
Virgin summit climb trial of Nuptze East (7804 m) in pair with Vladimir Suviga

September-November 2002
Trial of the first solo-climb of Nuptze East (7804 m) up the Southeast ridge

September 2001
Victorious solo ascent of Meru peak central for which Valery Babanov was awarded with Piolet d’Or

May 2001
First trial of solo ascent of Meru up the Northeast wall

Big Walls – Russian Way

April-June 2004
Virgin summit climb of Jannu North Face; team was awarded with Piolet d’Or

August-October 2003
Virgin summit climb trial of Jannu (Nepal, 7710 m) up the North Face. Altitude achieved

April-June 2002
Expedition to Baffin Land. Great Sail Peak summit. (Polar Canada)

2001, 2002
Summit attempts of Latok III (Himalayas)

1999
Great Trango Tower (Himalayas) summit by Yuri Koshelenko

Russian Extreme Project

June-July 2004
Virgin summit climb of Amin-Brakk West Face (5850 m, Pakistan) by Russian Extreme Project team with the following B.A.S.E. parachute jump by Valery Rozov from the summit

July 2003
Nalumasortog Western Wall (2054 m, Greenland) new route first ascent with the following B.A.S.E. jump by Valery Rozov from the summit

April-June 2002
Expedition to Baffin Land. Extreme parachute jump from Great Sail Peak (Polar Canada)

Fedor Konyukhov’s expeditions

2004-2006
Solo circumnavigation by Fedor Konyukhov on maxi-yacht «Trading network Alye Parusa” (“Scarlet Sails”)

November 2004-May 2005
Solo circumnavigation by Fedor Konyukhov on maxi-yacht «Trading Network Alye Parusa” (“Scarlet Sails”) by classical route from West to East confirmed by WSSRC

March-April 2003
Trans-antlantiñ sailing on maxi-catamaran “Alye Parusa”(Scarlet Sails) – was held the world record in sailing

2000
Solo circumnavigation yacht race “Vendee Globe 2000”

January-February 2000
“Iditarod-2000” draught-dogs race by Alaska

Open Caucasus

Summer 2003
Beginning of developing of a new mountaineering routes, virgin summit climb trials in Bezengi and Elbrus regions

March-August 2002
Caucasus mountaineering expeditions

Expeditions of the sailing yacht “Apostol Andrew”

September 2004
Beginning of the third circumnavigation sailing around Antarctica’s coasts

October 2001-November 2002
Second circumnavigation of the sailing yacht “Apostol Andrew” around Western hemisphere

1998-1999
First circumnavigation of the sailing yacht “Apostol Andrew” around Eastern hemisphere by Northern Shipping Route

October 2001
Expedition to “Bu-Ulgen Wall” track in Dombay

The climbs of Gleb Sokolov

2005, 2002
The attempts of the speed traverse of Pobeda peak’s range

2005
The ascent of Cho-Oyu (Nepal, 8158 meters) under the direction of Gleb Sokolov 2004
The ascent of Aconcagua (Chile, 6960 meters)

2003
The first ascent of the route along the North face of Pobeda peak by the MAK group of alpinists (Tien Shan, 7439 meters)

Caving projects of the Cavex team

2003, 2004, 2005
The continued investigations of the Voronya Cave (Abkhazia) to maintain the world depth record

2002, 2003, 2004
The expeditions of the Moscow cavers together with the Cavex team to the New Cave (Abkhazia)

2003
Investigations of the Skalyarevo Brezdno Cave (Slovenia)

2002
Exploration of the Crete caves

2001
International Russian-Ukrainian expedition to the Voronya Cave. The world depth record (-1710 meters) was achieved.

The expeditions of Alpindustria adventure team

2003, 2004, 2005
The ascents of The Everest peak (The Himalayas, 8848 meters) under the direction of Alexander Abramov

Adventure races

2005
The participation of BASK team in the Nike AGG Challenge adventure race (Sochi)

2005
The “Running City” city orienteering competitions (Moscow)

2004, 2005
The participation of the BASK team in the Saint-Petersburg Urban Race

2004
City Challenge, Spring Challenge (Moscow)

2004
The Saint-Petersburg championship for adventure races “IRBIS winter extreme”

2003
BASK-Russia team takes part in the “Southern Traverse” adventure race (New Zealand) and in the multisport World Cup-Final “Raid Gauloises-2003” (Kirghizia)

2003
A number of extreme-adventure races “BASK Adventure Race-2003” (Russia)

Rock-climbing and ice-climbing

2005
“Rock-climbing for everyone” festival (Karelia)

2005
World Cup-lap for climbing (bouldering) an the Skala-City climbing wall (Moscow)

2005
Drytooling & Hot Wine festival (Moscow)

2004, 2005
Christmas Cup for climbing “In Memory Of Friends” (Moscow)

2004
“Vyborgsky mixt” ice-climbing competitions (Vyborg)

2004
The climbing competitions at the open relief in honour of the Bezengi Alpinism camp’s jubilee (The Caucasus)

2003
The world championship for ice-climbing (Kirov)

2003
The Open Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Championships for ice-climbing

2003
The Open Moscow championship for climbing at the Extreme-center climbing wall

2002
Moscow Cup for climbing (bouldering discipline)

2000-2004
The equipment of the Russian ice-climbing combined team

2005

• The first ascent at Melungtse North face (Tibet) by the international expedition consisting of Yury Koshelenko, Nikolas Totmyanin and Carlos Bouler (USA)
• The “Open Commonwealth of Independent States Cup” for alpinism (the rocky class) in the “Vertical-Alaudin” International Climbing-Tourist Center (Fanny Mountain)
• The third stage of the Arctic expedition “Polar Ring” under the direction of Vladimir Chukov
• The International DX-expedition to Peter’s Island in Antarctica
• The Open Moscow Cup for search-and-rescue services “Winter marathon”
• 2004-2005 The ethnographical expeditions of Konstantin Bannikov to the Altai Ukok plateau
• 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 The boating festival “Vuoksa”, tourist equipment trade fair

2004

• BASK Company becomes the official sponsor of The International Climbing Association (UIAA)
• The climbs of Denis Urubko: Baruntse and Annapurna (The Himalayas) together with S.Moro and B.Tassy; Lenin peak (Pamirs) consisting of the Kazakhstan combined team
• BASK team’s participation in the competitions of the search-and-rescue services “The school of the survival”
• BASK team is the winner of the championship for search-and-rescue services of the South-Western region
• The Open Saint-Petersburg championship for the speleotechnics
• The Children Extreme Project – the expedition “The Children’s Home’s children at The Elbrus Peak”
• 2003-2004 Alexander Vovnij’s solo cycle-trip through South America

2003

• New world motorcycle height record is achieved by the Moto-Elbrus team
• Moscow combined FAiS (Russian Climbing and Alpine Federation) team’s expedition to Congur-Tag Peak (China, 7719 meters)
• Bratsk-Moscow Cycle race
• Moscow Open Cup for climbing at the Extreme-centre climbing-wall
• «Perovo-speleo» team expedition to the Lost Cave (West Caucasus)
• Maxim Shakirov’s New Year ascent to Kilimanjaro

2002

• «Temuchzhin’s Path»: the cycle -trip of Konstantin Kuksin and Denis Naumov from Baikal to the Yellow Sea through the Gobi desert
• Pamirs expedition by the Moscow Climbing Club
• Participation by “BASK-the-wave” team in the Russian championship final for boating at Belaya river, in the “Mzymta-2002” Russian Open Championship for rafting
• Participation by the Russian Itera team in the stages of the Europe championship Auto-rally – 2002
• International “Pole of Cold-2002” Auto-rally through Yakutia
• Stepan Savin’s solo ski expedition through the Transpolar
• “Free Travels Academy” expeditions to the Russian geographical centre (Tura village, Evenk autonomous region )
• The climbing by the Krasnoyarsk climbers team to the Troll Wall (Norway) headed by Nikolay Zakharov
• The first ascent by Russian climbers to the summit of Cerra-Torre (Patagonia, 3128 meters)
• Russian peacemaking womens expedition to the highest European point Elbrus (5642 meters)

2001

• Equipping of the Russian combined team – winners of the world championship for Sky Arc

2000

• Viktor Yazykov’s participation in the International solo yacht race “Around Alone”
• Russian climber’s expedition to Lhocze-the-Main (Himalayas, 8612 meters)

1999-2000 “Towards the XXI century” international expedition to the South Pole headed by Vladimir Chukov and Eugene Bakalov

1999

• Moscow combined climbing teams expedition to Cho-Oyo (Himalayas, 8201 meters)
• Mikhail Malakhov’s ascent to the highest Antarctic point – Vinson Peak (5140 meters)

1998-1999 Circumnavigations on board the yachts “Urania” and “Syberia”

1998

• International “North pole-98” parachute expedition
• Russian expedition to Everest headed by Boris Sedusov
• “Arctic” trans Antarctic expedition headed by Vladimir Chukov. The autonomous transfer from Russia to Canada via the North Pole
• International Russian parachute expedition to the North Pole

1997-1998 Russian arctic expeditions to Spitzbergen led by Viktor Boyarsky

1997

• Magnitogorsk climbers’ expedition to Patagonia (Acancagua, Fitzroy, Cerra-Torre)
• Russian climbers’ expedition along the Makalu Western Wall (Himalayas, 8486 meters). The team headed by Sergey Yefimov is awarded the Piolet d’Or (Golden Ice Axe)
• The international expedition of Richard Weber and Mikhail Malakhov to the North Pole
• Kazakhstan combined team’s expedition to Everest (Hymalayan, 8848 meters)