We had allocated 11 days to climb Elbrus, but 3 days from Salt Lake City we already summited the highest summit of Europe creating an issue. What to do with 8 extra days? Well that is not to difficult to arrange.
On june 8 we did the West summit in 4hs,35″ and the same day we got back to the Hotel, on July 11 we headed up again by departing from the hotel at 8,40am and reaching the East Summit at 2,22pm, so about 4hs,22′ from the last ski lift at 3,750 with a approximate elevation gain of 1837 meters, we used running shoes for speed, same as for Elbrus west.
Two days at the hotel was enough for us to start getting a bit of ants on our butts, so with a border permit in hand we departed on July 13 for a mega marathon of peak bagging, witch ended early as we encountered the worsrt rock ever on my 22 years of peak bagging.
We will depart tomorrow for Moscow and to Kilimanjaro we go!
All the best
damian