Overview
- Tour club Seven Summits reports the 12 Russian climbers are at Union Glacier base camp with no injuries and are scheduled to fly to Punta Arenas today.
- The team summited Mount Sidley and descended safely, countering earlier accounts that they had been stuck by a storm.
- Earlier reports from Telegram channel SHOT said the group, led by guides Artem Rostovtsev and Alexander Dorozhukov, had not moved for six days around 1,500 meters.
- A meteorologist said conditions in that area were not extreme, citing winds near 5 meters per second and temperatures around minus 38 degrees Celsius.
- The Russian Mountaineering Federation called the group experienced and the route technically manageable but stressed self-reliance in Antarctica with roughly a 10‑day safety window.