Elbrus Race Anatoly, Valery and Alexandr gone as well and Elbrus Race of the first edition has stopped. Taking into consideration the increase of the popularity of extreme sport and mountaineering in Russia, the accommodation convenience in Elbrus region, the experience in organization of sport events, Russianclimb.com and Top Sport Travel (high venture travel company, led by Nikolay Shustrov (Master of Sports in mountaineering, member of Balyberdin climbing team, 1990 Elbrus Race participant with 5-th result -2h12min, Camel Trophy 93 participant) decided to reborn the tradition of speed climb competitions to the highest Europe point. So since 2005 second edition is going
Elbrus Race Piotr Hercog, Tomasz Brzeski, Leszek Rzeszotko, Alexandra Stodolak, Anton Brichevsky, Leszek Pleskasz, Gabor Horvath, Alexei Pshenichnikov, Andrei Gurin, Ade Wahyudi,and many, many others (sorry that not everyone could be listed here) The fastest known time to climb Elbrus (from Azau 2400m till West Summit 5642m) was fixed by Andrzej Bargiel on September 21, 2010 and is 3h 23m 37s. Since 2008 Red Fox started his race event at Elbrus using Elbrus Race name in not fair way. Part 1 starts from abour 2400 m near new cable car station — finish near refuge Barrels on ~3708 m. Goes from refuge