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August 19, 2010: - Dates and prices for 2011

Dates and prices for 2011 season will be set and published on the web site in October (probably in late October).
However there is a certainty about most dates:
- 8 day regular departure tours will stay still Friday-Friday tours (that means move one day before in the calendar)
- 11 day Elbrus from North tour starts on Friday as well (that means moves one day before in the calendar).
- 11 day regular departure tours will have same dates.
- Ski-touring + Elbrus climb tours may be moved 1 day before or after or stay same.

Private tours will be run on any dates according to a request.

We begin to accept reservations for all tours (both public regular departure tours and private customized ones) after dates and prices are published.

However all above is about OUR service - Elbrus tours.
Prices for additional services (hotels and transport in Moscow) will be published after we have them from the hotels and other contractors i.e. in March 2011. Only after this we start accepting these "extra" reservations.

August 06, 2010: - About fires, smoke a flight.

There are fires in central part of Russia because of extremely hot summer. That is a real problem. Here are the answers to most frequent questions:

1. No, there are no fires in Elbrus area and fires do not affect our programs.
2. Yes, it is hot and smoke in Moscow. Moscow itself is not in fire, the smoke comes from wooden areas nearby Moscow, from East and South.
3. It is still possible to walk in Moscow without gas mask although smelt is not good and visibility is about 500 meters (at the moment).
4. Poor visibility may affect flights. At the moment Sheremetievo (SVO) works normally both for arrival and departure because it is to the North from Moscow. Domodedovo (DME) and Vnukovo (VKO) have South location and there are departure delays and even rejecting from landing. Everything depends on very current situation with wind direction, a flight may be rejected to land now but another one may be accepted in 30 minutes.

You can check situation at the airport regarding cancelled or delayed flights on-line. Reload web pages and wait more if there is no connection, there are too many requests and this make sites work unstable.
Sheremetievo (SVO) Flight Information Board
Domodedovo (DME) Flight Information Board
Vnukovo (VKO) Flight Information Board

July 19, 2010: - Border zone permit problems.

Border guard office does not issue border zone permits. They do not reject the applications but simply delay issuing the permits. Officially they have right to make a decision within 40 days. At the moment all permits we have were sent to border guard office before May 30. There is no certainty how that will work in future but we are now changing our itineraries and programs to avoid border zone at all. It is simple because we have only one day (half day hike) in 11 day itinerary within the border zone. All other programs will not have changes.

We strongly recommend the private tour participants (both guided full service tours and the independent Lite Package tours) do not rely on the border zone permit and do not plan any activity within the border zone. That are all side valleys to the South from the Baksan main valley. Names of the valleys are: Adyl-Su, Adyr-Su, Usengi, Shkhelda, Donguz-Orun.

No need of border zone permit and no problems with climbing Elbrus from all sides, staying in the Baksan valley, visiting valleys to the North from the baksan valley, hiking the Mt.Cheget.

April 30, 2010: - May 01-10 Holidays in Russia.

There are May 01-03 and May 08-09 Holidays in Russia. Actually this means that business life in Russia is virtually paralysed from April 30 to May10. Most official departments (including probably Russian Consulates in other countries) have holidays. We will stay in touch these days but our correspondence may have delays and there may be delays with processing official papers such as visa support.

March 19, 2010: - Flights information and Important Info page were updated.

There are some changes in flights timetable for summer 2010. Also the 'Important Info' pages were updated according to common changes with flights, and situation with hotels and airports. 'More Info' pages in each tour itinerary were updated accordingly.

March 14, 2010: - Prices for additional services (extras) in 2010 season are set.

Prices for additional services (extras) in 2010 season are set and published. Since this time we accept extra service requests through the Order forms.

March 01, 2010: - Ski tour and Mt. Elbrus period 1 (March 31 - April 11, 2010) is sold out .

Ski tour and Mt. Elbrus period 1 (March 31 - April 11, 2010) is sold out. We achieved maximum accommodation capacity in Adyr-Su valley lodge.

February 18, 2010: - Aeroflot airline flights change.

Aeroflot just have changed some their flights (to/from MinVody) numbers and Terminal.

Now there are SU 2089, SU 2091 to and SU 2090, SU 2092, from MinVody. It sounds that old flight numbers (SU 785, SU787 and SU 786, SU 788 ) are still in use so check your tickets with Aeroflot beforehand.

The important thing is that new numbers fly from another terminal.

Old flights use Terminal B
New flights use new Terminal D

Normally International flights come to Terminal F. Using Terminal D gives some advantage because one does not need to use a car or bus to get from International Terminal F to Terminal B or back.
On the other hand it sounds that old flights still go on some days (at least we still see them on some days in the airline schedule) so double check with Aeroflot what is your flight number now and which terminal it departs/arrives.

Airport map is here: www.pilgrim-tours.com/pictures/svo_airport.gif

December 04, 2009: - A misprint has been fixed.

There was a misprint in one our 8 day public tour departure date. A departure date was 04 of September but must be 03 of September. Fixed. Please note: 7 nigh/8 day tours are exactly Friday-Friday tours.
Thanks to Andrius from UAB "Kalnu upe" for notification about the misprint.

September 19, 2009: - About 2010 season programs and offers.

Dates and prices for 2010 season will be set and published on the web site in October (probably in late October).
However there is a certainty about some dates:
- 8 day tours will stay still Friday-Friday tours.
- 11 day tours will have same dates.
- Other tours departure dates (North side and Ski-touring) may be moved 1 day before or after or stay same.

We will accept booking after publishing dates and prices.

However all above is about OUR service - Elbrus tours. Prices for additional services (hotels and transport in Moscow, airtickets if we decide to offer this) will be published after we have them from the hotels and other contractors i.e. in March. Only after this we start accepting this "extra" reservations.

July 07, 2009: - National Park permit.

There is National Park in Elbrus area. For the last 5-6 years National park demands a fee for permission to visit it. There were disputes in courts about legality of this local document and in most cases courts said the demand was illegal. In 2008 season the national park suspended this activity and people could visit National park without permits and fees.

Some days ago National park renewed the fee and it became much higher. There is a discussion again and National Park says: 'go and take it into court but we still insist on the fee NOW..'

Now there are:
1. A kind of permit for climbing Elbrus: 1000 Rubles.
2. A kind of permit for visiting side valleys: 50 Rubles per each valley.

There is no special place to buy the permit. National park officials check the permit and collect the fee from people when they meet them. Because the legality of the fee is unknown again there may be no fine if you climb Elbrus without this fee and meet an official after this.

Our advice is: not to pay this fee until you are forced to do this. If you do not meet an official by any reason you are lucky and save some money.

That advice above is for independent climbers but it is not good for tourist companies.

As a tour company we can not play hide-and-seek with local authorities.
Pilgrim Tours customers including LP customers will have official permits for climbing Elbrus. When people purchased our packages we promised that National Park permit is included. We confirm this and there will be no additional cost for our customers.

June 14, 2009: - Border zone permit problems.

Border guard office brings more and more problems to tourists in the area. Before it was easy to get a border zone permission. Starting from this year border zone permit application has even more points to fill out than Russian entry visa application. Moreover the new regulation says that people must apply for border zone permit 60 days in advance. Fortunately Elbrus itself is not within border zone and no need of border permission to climb it. However visiting mountains to the South from the Baksan river (valley) may become questionable. Because this new regulation appears in June, officially there is no time to get permits for the period until mid August if border guard office still insists on 60 days.

At the moment situation is as follows: Border guard office returned all our applications for all groups (because they do not have necessary details according to new regulation) and we begin to send new application forms with these details. We will see how that works. If border guard office processes them fast customers will have border zone permission. If not - there will be no permissions this season and we will be forced to change the itineraries of groups in order to avoid the border zone.

*As we have questions again and again probably the explanation above was not clear enough. Here is a clarification: Border zone permit has no effect on Elbrus climb itself. The only difference may be that we will be forced to change valleys for hikes in our standard tours. That affects only 11 day tour and only one day of the itinerary - Adyl-Su valley hike. If we have no border zone permit we will arrange a hike in another valley.

June 04, 2009: - Big demand report.

In spite of the crisis we encounter a big demand for our public tours for this season. Two periods are sold out and some other periods have just a few seats left. If you wish to place an order it is better to sign up and pay deposit far in advance.

May 01-10, 2009: - May holidays in Russia.

There are May holidays in Russia from May 1 to May 10. Although really that is May 1-3 and May 9-10 business life in Russia is nearly paralyzed for the whole period. Visa support may be delayed because of visa service holidays, Russian Consulates may be closed. In Elbrus area (as well as in other tourist areas in Russia) May holidays mean overbooked hotels and huts, crowds of people everywhere and high prices along with bad service.

March 24, 2009: - As always we have huge correspondence begins from mid March.

There may be delays with our correspondence because of many requests and messages from our customers. Correspondence flow normally rise in mid March and rises until June. Starting from mid March we guarantee our answers within 3 business days only. Most likely simple questions will be answered on the same or next days but messages which require any special processing (different official confirmations, calculations, visa support etc) may have 2-3 days delay. For example confirmation of receiving payment may be sent in a day after actual receiving because that requires several procedures - receiving information from bank or WU courier, inserting this info into our database and finally sending formal confirmation of reception.

February 18, 2009: - Order forms for Additional services and Lite Package are updated for 2009..

Prices for additional services are set and published on our web site. Order forms for Additional Services and Lite Package are updated for 2009. Since that time we accept the Lite Package orders and Additional services (extras) for regular departure public tours - through the proper forms.

November 26, 2008: - Application forms for Standard 8, 11 and 12 day tours are updated for 2009..

Application forms for Standard regular departure 8, 11, 12 day tours have been updated for 2009. Since that moment customers can sign up and we accept and process orders.
Lite Package and North tours are not ready yet. North Side tour will be updated within some days but LP update will take more time.
The most important feature in 2009 is that we fix price in Russian Rubles. The price in Rubles will stay same but prices in Euro and US dollars will change according to exchange rate changes. Customers can pay in US dollars or Euro according to current Central bank of Russia exchange rate. The today's exchange rate along with all calculated prices in euro and USD are on our web site right near the price in Rubles.

October 07, 2008: - Dates and prices for 2009 are published.

There are no changes in the itineraries, 8 day tours still stick to Friday-Friday term, dates for 11 day and 12 day tours stay same. North side climbed starts a day earlier. Prices are about 10 percent higher according to current money inflation processes. The only one big change is that from that moment all our prices are fixed in Russian currency (Rubles). Tours may be paid in US dollars or Euro as well according to current Central bank of Russia exchange rates. The current (today's) equivalents in USD and Euro are to be automatically published on the page right near the fixed cost in Rubles.

August 19, 2008: - Our tours in 2009.

There will be same kinds of tours in 2009 as in 2008. The exact dates of departures and prices will be set and published in October. Starting from January 2009 it will be possible to book them through our on-line forms. 8 day tours will still stick to Friday-Friday terms. We do not expect big changes in dates of other tours, most likely they will stay same as in 2008. Rise in prices may be up to 10 percent according to average common money inflation level. Changes in prices may be not same in all periods, some of them may rise, some stay same. Everything will be settled in October after we calculate the final results of 2008 year season.

August 09, 2008: - Conflict in Ossetia..

The conflict does not affect Russian territory itself and especially Elbrus area. All our tour will be run. It even makes local political situation better. In this conflict all local Caucasian nationalities took Russian part against Georgia so we do not expect even political struggle. Russian army in the Caucasus obviously will not allow any fight on Russian territory and this conflict will stay conflict on Georgian territory behind the Caucasus mountains. That is pretty far and several high mountain ranges protect the Elbrus area. (There is other Georgian territory nearby but that territory is not under full control of main Georgian government although there are no rebels there. Just an isolated by mountains region with very poor and not ethnically Georgian population.)

We do not expect any changes in Elbrus area except children from South Ossetia in local hotels (according federal program to help refugees) and more visible presence of border guard.

May 01, 2008: - May Holidays in Russia.

There are May 1-4 and May 7-9 holidays in Russia. These long holidays is a kind of tradition in Russia and that paralyzes any business activity between April 30 and May 10. Our correspondence will have delays on this period and any activity where a 3rd party involved (visa support, hotel reservations etc) becomes possible only after May 10.

Aeroflot airline: www.aeroflot.ru/eng
KavMinVodyAvia airline : www.kmvavia.aero
Siberia airline : www.s7.ru/en

February 12, 2008: - Additional service pages and Order forms are ready for 2008.

Additional services and their costs are set and published. From now we also accept "extra" (besides the Elbrus tour service) orders. This is the new edition so there is a possibility that forms may work incorrectly because of any mistake. In this case please let us know.

December 02, 2007: - We are back from Nepal.

Our correspondence had big delays. We were on our after season vacations (expedition in India-Nepal) and our office was closed for more than a month. Now we are back and the paperwork will be processed. Sorry for the delay.

November 02, 2007: - The problem with web site and email servers has been fixed.

The problem with servers has been fixed and now both web site and email work correctly. However there may still be delays with correspondence because our team has "after season" vacations until mid November.

October 29, 2007: - Some problems with web site and email servers.

For a couple of weeks we have problems with our web site and email address because of moving our US based server. The hosting customer support there is not fast and we can contact them from Russia only at night (12 hour time zone difference) and our people still have after season vacations..
All this causes more delay with fixing than it was expected.

The web site itself is still available at http://198.173.232.209/

We are very sorry for this delay. If you wrote us anything for the last couple of weeks and did not receive an answer please contact us by THIS gleb@umail.ru address. This is our "reserve" address and it is ok now.

September 21, 2007: - Dates and prices for 2008 season scheduled regular departure public tours are set and published.

August 27, 2007: - Dates for 2008 season scheduled regular departure public tours are set.

- Private Guided tours (for only your party) may be ordered and run on any date and have any schedule.

- Lite Package tours are available on any date within March 30 - April 30 and May 09 - September 26 periods.

- Scheduled Guaranteed Departure Public tours in 2008 dates. Everyone can join a group on these dates. A tour will be run for the same price if at least one person signs up. Here are the dates below.

May 29, 2007: - Our answers may have delays because of huge correspondence in May - June.

Every year in May and June we have huge correspondence with customers. Also that time our big work in the mountain begins. All this causes delays with our correspondence and paperwork. Please do not rely on last minute bookings and questions.

Although delays may exist they may not be more than for 3 BUSINESS days. If you have no answer (or any reaction from our side) after 3 business days that means we did not receive your message or our answer was not received by you. In that case do not hesitate to send us new message through web form and think about the settings of YOUR email box or probably giving us ANOTHER ADDRESS (in any of free public worldwide email services such as hotmail.com or gmail.com).

Please do not repeat your messages before 3 days term. This causes more jams for the common correspondence flow and what is worse may put the processing of your messages to the end of the line again.

January 30, 2007: - A new long-expected offer: Elbrus from the North.

In 2007 we start offer a new guaranteed departure public tour. Elbrus climb from the North. We had many requests about this, we had private customized tours there and now we offer this for everybody. Dates are fixed and everybody can join the tour. We set only one period for 2007. Depending on this season we probably offer several periods in 2008. 11 day Elbrus from North tour page

January 29, 2007: - A small photo album about ski tours.

A small photo album about our winter ski tours was added. Link is on the 12 day ski-tour page.
and here..www.pilgrim-tours.com/pages/winter/photo.shtml

January 27, 2007: - Some changes in the web site and the booking procedure.

There are some changes in our booking policy and on our web site pages.

October 31, 2006: - Our office and correspondence will be opened again after "after-season" vacations on November 2..

September 14, 2006: - Dates for guaranteed departure 8, 11, 12 day tours are published.

We finally set dates for guaranteed departure tours in 2007. Prices are not set yet but we do not expect big changes. Also there will be some slight changes in the Conditions. As soon as all details are set they will be published. At the moment only dates of departures are set.

Dates are available either from every 2006 tour page menu or by following these links:
http://pilgrim-tours.com/index.shtml?tours/standart8/index2007
http://pilgrim-tours.com/index.shtml?tours/standart11/index2007
http://pilgrim-tours.com/index.shtml?tours/standart12/index2007

September 13, 2006: - All problems with web and email servers have been finally fixed.

Our Web Forum has been repaired. All email addresses are functioning. Since this moment we consider there are no communication problems.

September 08, 2006: - Email address is ok.

Major contact email address problem (with *pilgrim-tours.com addresses) seems to be fixed. From now all our addresses work properly. However to be on safe side please for a week send copies of messages to alternative address ( glebumail.ru) as well.
Our web Forum database is still down. We hope it will be fixed soon.

August 09, 2006: - Forms are ok now.

We set the redirection to another email account on our Forms. Now Application forms, Extra service Forms and Message Form send messages to a functioning email address. Thus you can use Forms without problems. If you have no answer from us for some days please resend it through Send Message page.

August 09, 2006: - problems on our servers.

For some days we experience problems with receiving emails. This is the problem of our US based ("Verio, inc ") hosting company and we can not do anything with this but to wait until this is fixed.
Some messages come without a problem but most of them including messages from the same (our) server do not come. This means that the Message Form on our web site and Application Forms do not work normally as well. At the moment we are trying to set a redirection. It probably will work for Forms but email server settings are non accessible at the moment. Hopefully it will be fixed by hosting company soon.

June 12, 2006: - airtickets prices have been risen.

June 04, 2006. - Additional service changes.

From now the LP participants have same additional service in Moscow as full service customers. Order form has been changed accordingly and there is an access to Additional service page now (left menu).

June 01, 2006. - Transportation service adjustment.

People have too big gear along. Car drivers in Moscow refuse to take more than 2 people in a car because in other case there is a lot of gear on the seats inside the cabin. We are forced to return to our previous years policy - a car may be confirmed only for 1 or 2 people. 3 people are required to order a minibus. Same situation with big groups. We offer now 14-seat bus for 3-8 people, 19-seat bus for 9-12 people and for 13-15 people there is a 30-seat bus with luggage space. Drivers in the Caucasus are not so strict and we still confirm 3 people in a car. There are no options besides one kind of minibus in the Caucasus so we still offer 10-seat bus for up to 8 people. If there are more people in a group they have to add another bus or a car.

April 15, 2006. - Hotels rise prices.

Izmailovo hotel have risen their prices by about 45%, Cosmos hotel have risen their prices by 10%. Other hotels also rise prices almost every new week. The problem is that hotels require us to pay the difference even for already confirmed and paid reservations. Reservations for August that were paid in January now must be paid to hotels again according to new prices. This obviously makes early reservations useless and our hotel reservation business senseless and unprofitable both for us and our customers. We will make a decision about the situation soon and inform those customers who already paid for this service. Probably we will be forced to give up from accepting hotel reservation requests for Moscow at all.

April 15, 2006. - New Web Board is published.

Web Board was not available for a long time because of permanent massive "spam" attacks. Now it is opened again on a new engine and besides of "Forum" there will be "knowledge base" and "Frequently Answered Questions" sections. Unfortunately to prevent spammer bots from automatic posting we are forced to insist on registering and signing in before you can post messages.

October 06, 2005. - All regular departure tour dates and prices for 2006 are published.

There are some changes in comparison with 2005.

- All standard itineraries content only the Caucasus days. Those people that want Moscow service and/or airtickets from us may order that additionally without limitations. Also our changing/cancellation policy about Moscow service becomes more flexible in ALL tours. In 2005 8-day participants were not allowed to order anything besides Caucasus part.

- Note, that prices in Russia go higher (10-20% per year in Russian Rubles) although exchange rate with USD or Euro stays same. That is why prices go higher in other currencies as well.

- There are 3 kinds of regular departure tours from now (once again ALL itineraries normally contain the Caucasus part only):
- - - 8-day (7-night) tour - the most popular and cost/time effective. Two first periods of the total 19 ones are for climbing Elbrus with skis.
- - - 11-day (10-night) tour - an option for those people who want to have the best possible acclimatization.
- - - 12-day (11-night) Ski-tour - Ski touring + climbing Elbrus (note that climbing Elbrus itself with skis is not possible that time)
- - - Lite Package program starts again from May 15, 2006. However it may be possible on other dates on request.
- - - Private tours are available all year round. It may be ski tours, climbing, trekking tours or any combination of them.

- Most prices for ADDITIONAL services are not set yet because we still have no prices from our partners, hotels and airlines. The prices will be published as new information becomes available.

September 28, 2005. - 8-day tour dates and prices for 2006 are published.

- There are big changes in our policy about 8-day tours in 2006. From now we accept orders for Moscow service and airtickets which was impossible in 2005.
- Other tour itineraries and prices will be published soon. We are preparing 11-day in the Caucasus extended tours and regular departure ski-touring programs in March-April.

September 20, 2005. - Season is over. Results.

- This season we hosted more than 700 people from dozens of countries from Japan to Brazil.
- Statistics show that success rate of our 8-day tours (in the Caucasus only) and 11-day tours (9 days in the Caucasus) is striking same: 87 %. The difference is only 0.02% !
- Lite Package groups had very good success rate this year: 82% in 2005 in comparison with 49% in 2004. The reason is that there was extremely good weather this season. For our guided groups weather is not so important - experienced guides will arrange a climb in most cases but for Lite Package groups (without a guide) good weather appears to be really essential.
- Overall (all tours) success rate by months: May - 89%, June - 88%, July - 85%, August - 91%, September - 87%. To our mind the difference within 10% is very accidental so we consider that all these months are equally good for climbing Elbrus.

- Our new itineraries, dates and costs for 2006 season will be published on this web site by October 1, 2005.

- Many thanks to our customers who chose us. We always do our best to improve our service and your opinion is very valuable. Do not hesitate to share your thoughts about our service with us and with other people. Good features should spread and bad ones also must be known.

February 11, 2005 - Some changes / updates.

- There are 2 new fields in our Application forms to fill out - the date of arrival in Russia and the date of departure.
- From now it is possible to avoid fax communication. Visa support pages will be scanned and sent by email. One must print them out for Consulate. Thus fax number field becomes optional.
- Information about our new (for 2005 year season) base Lodge/hotel is published. Links are from proper tour pages.

October 01, 2004 - Dates and prices updated for 2005 season.

- At the moment 8-day, 11-day and 12-day regular departure tours are set. Prices stay same, departure dates for 11-day and 12-day tours are same. Dates for 8-day tours are set to 2005 Fridays.
- 15-day regular departure ski-tour does not exist in 2005.
- Peak Lenin regular departure tour does not exist in 2005.
- 15-day regular departure Elbrus-Bezengi tour we be offered in 2005 but the dates/conditions are not set yet.

Some words about the 2004 season:

May 11, 2004 - Price correction of the Lite Package offer. There is a new registration fee in the area.

The local authorities set the new national preserve registration fee for all people coming in the Elbrus area. The cost is US$ 20, (17 Euro) Because that registration is a must we include it into the Lite Package and therefore its price becomes 17 Euro higher. The price for confirmed and paid tours will stay same and we will not charge any additional payment. All new confirmations will include that fee.

January 8, 2004. - Price correction of 11-day tours. From now all prices are in Euro.

US Dollar purchasing power dramatically falls in Russia. Since March 2003 we considered Euro equal to US Dollar in most cases and accepted US$ payments accordingly, but now we can not ignore the process.

All prices and payments since January 1, 2004 are in Euros. Any other currency characters may be seen on the web site and in our correspondence by mistake only. Sorry for the possible confusion we are hunting for bugs in our templates but still have some misprints.

All direct customers who have confirmations from us and paid a deposit before today will pay the price they have in confirmations. New customers will see the new price within several hours (do not forget to 'Refresh' pages in your browser window). Sorry for inconvenience.

December 20, 2003. - Peak Lenin tour is cancelled

November 14, 2003. - Changes in 15-day standard itinerary.

We replaced 3 days in Elbrus area with days in Bezingi region. This allows to see the most unspoiled region in the Caucasus with the highest mountains instead of spending time in one area. We consider this a big improvement. The tour price stays same. About the itinerary see at 15-day program page.

September 14, 2003. - Tour dates and prices for 2004 are partially published.

8, 11 and 15 day scheduled tours are published. Now there are 35(!) regular departure periods. Ski-tours scheduled tours (for March-May) will be published soon.

June 20, 2003. - To our customers and correspondents.

This year we have huge correspondence and a lot of orders processing in summer. This is something new for us and we can not answer and process orders enough fast because this is high season and almost all our staff is in the field. We simply are not meant to accept many orders in summer, sorry. At the moment we are even not able to answer half of messages from people. If you encounter a delay, just write one more message and most likely it will be answered hitting the 'answered' half of correspondence. Sorry about this. For the next year we will fix the problem but now it's too late for this season to change something.

June 14, 2003

Our regular departure group period # 2climbed Mt.Elbrus (5632 m) today. The 5 of 7 participants climbed the top. The weather was sunny and windy.

June 06, 2003

Our regular departure group period # 1 climbed Mt.Elbrus (5632 m) today. The 14 of 15 participants climbed the top. The weather was cold and windy although visibility was good.

April 16, 2003

Our new web site is ready. There will be some layout changes and some pages will be added soon but we consider the site to be practically ready and are glad to present it to our potential customers. We are planning to make translation into other languages within a month. Our former web site www.pilgrimtours.org is still available and will stay available as a mirror of this site.