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RUSSIAN ALTAI: VIEWS & ACTION
by Vladimir Stolyarov, the Wild Russia photographer

The Altai mountains, 2002:

Pictures were taken during a sport trip around Beluha, the highest Altay mountain. We had almost reached the summit, but the weather changed dramatically and forced us to descent. In fact we were lucky to escape, nevertheless everything was great.

Akkemsky river and Beluha mt.

Akkemsky river and Beluha mt.

Mushtu-Airy river

Mushtu-Airy river

     

Ascending the Beluha mt.

Ascending the Beluha mt.

Ice-climbing on the Gebler icefall.

Ice-climbing

Close to the summit

Close to the summit

     

View on the Beluha mt. from the Base Camp

View on the Beluha mt. from the Base Camp

Afternoon calmness

Afternoon calmness

The famous Kucherlinskoe lake

The famous Kucherlinskoe lake
The Altay mountains, 2000:

It was really strenuous but very rewarding trip around the Beluha mountain. While abundance of not bad photographs I'm sorry till now that I couldn't take a picture of our midnight  descendings from high passes under the moonlight.

Cony-Airy Canyon

Cony-Airy Canyon

The Akkemsky Wall and meteostation

The Akkemsky Wall and meteostation

The Altay mountains, 1987:
It was my first acquaintance with mountains. I was 15 years old, I went in school but was an advanced  photographer already. As a result I've entered St. Petersburg Mining institute and become a geologist.

Thunderstorm in mountains

Thunderstorm in mountains

Mt. Beluha. Sunrise.

Mt. Beluha. Sunrise.

Kara-Turek pass

Kara-Turek pass

More pictures by V.S.: Kamchatka: "Bears and volcanoes" trip run in August 2003, the Sayan mountains, Saint Petersburg with its suberbs, the Karelian istmus in winter, iceclimbing in the Karelian istmus.

 

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