<p>Thirteen mountaineers from Pune-based Guardian Giripremi Institute of Mountaineering (GGIM) have successfully scaled Mt. Elbrus.</p>.<p>The team scaled 5, 642 meters to reach the summit of Mt Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak situated in Russia, at 9.30 am local time on August 15.</p>.<p>Sharayu Mirajkar, Sahil Joshi and Romeer Mukherjee from Vidya Valley School summited the peak along with a team consisting of Dr Hemant Shirali, Varsha Vinaydutt, Jyoti Khadse, Aseem Joshi, Shrikant Dhumale, Amit Bendre, Nivetha R. and Manish Parikh.</p>.<p>The team was led by Ankit Sohoni, senior instructor at GGIM) and Anand Mali, Mt. Everest and Mt. Kanchenjunga Summitter.</p>.<p>Satish Amberkar, Preetam Satsardekar and Radha Navare couldn’t reach the summit but they manage to climb 5300 meters. </p>.<p>Anuj Karkare, Giripremi’s close associate and Giripremi’s the 8000er Club member, completed the summit push from the base camp in just 7 hours and 56 minutes.</p>.<p>Usually, it takes 10 to 11 hours to climb the peak.</p>.<p>Notably, this is the fourth consecutive successful expedition on Mt. Elbrus by GGIM teams, according to Umesh Zirpe of Giripremi.</p>
<p>Thirteen mountaineers from Pune-based Guardian Giripremi Institute of Mountaineering (GGIM) have successfully scaled Mt. Elbrus.</p>.<p>The team scaled 5, 642 meters to reach the summit of Mt Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak situated in Russia, at 9.30 am local time on August 15.</p>.<p>Sharayu Mirajkar, Sahil Joshi and Romeer Mukherjee from Vidya Valley School summited the peak along with a team consisting of Dr Hemant Shirali, Varsha Vinaydutt, Jyoti Khadse, Aseem Joshi, Shrikant Dhumale, Amit Bendre, Nivetha R. and Manish Parikh.</p>.<p>The team was led by Ankit Sohoni, senior instructor at GGIM) and Anand Mali, Mt. Everest and Mt. Kanchenjunga Summitter.</p>.<p>Satish Amberkar, Preetam Satsardekar and Radha Navare couldn’t reach the summit but they manage to climb 5300 meters. </p>.<p>Anuj Karkare, Giripremi’s close associate and Giripremi’s the 8000er Club member, completed the summit push from the base camp in just 7 hours and 56 minutes.</p>.<p>Usually, it takes 10 to 11 hours to climb the peak.</p>.<p>Notably, this is the fourth consecutive successful expedition on Mt. Elbrus by GGIM teams, according to Umesh Zirpe of Giripremi.</p>
