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Nikolay Loktev and Jury Veselovsky, 2009

My too many thank to Ritca national park officers Nikolay Loktev and Jury Veselovsky for helps in the hike.

The hike has duration of 7 days on alpine. It has autonomus solo alpine walk on easy & near alpine with 3 camp. Highs of the hike has been between 2000 and 2500 meters. Temperature of air into shadow has been between 7-12C. Cloudness is hight, maximal sun period on day had 5 hours, average to day around had 2-3 hour.

Goals the hike had complex training my body and mind. All goals had reach with good quality. Hike had go without incident and breakage as had to plan. Amount of food had conform of my requirements.

Weather during the hike had very rained. Almost every day I had more-less thunderstorm sometimes with hail. Two strong thunderstorm I had in night.

The method is old and easy. At mountain I far away from fuss city life and have amazing context from clouds, water, rocks, sky & little me between all. It very really & strong composition of nature forces to help rebuild my mind and create new composition from myself. Too climb on ridge, cold rarefy air, mountain water and simple diet is effective help my create my body more powerful.

Weight of equipment & food in backpack brutto had 18kg. Weight of food had 4kg on 8 days.

Full list of equipment you can see on Equipment-13

• Before first I providently has moved my camp little down. Nevertheless thunderstorm wind had to little bent of one arc of my tent (I had restored the arc to next morning).

Photo made after night thunderstorm

• During second thunderstorm after 5 days from first I had thought, had pack up my equipment into backpack for emergency and had go to sit under big rock stone, protect my from rain and wind.

And over two hour in the night I had been observed show of lightning upper my. It show has been little awfully since very near but very beautiful.

FLASH! BANG! BABANG-BANG-BANG! Silence, dark, I little drink coffee from thermos… FLASH! FLASH! BABABANG!!! Silence, darkness, I short prayed what know, again drink coffee… FLASH-FLASH-FLASH on all the sky! BABABABANG! I deaf and blind… Where my thermos with coffee, you mother?

Morning after night thunderstorm.