Grandes Jorasses
19:10. Having climbed the ice-fall we finally got back. Now we are breaking trail waist-deep in snow. All is well.
23:53. We are going to the hut. Zero visibility, about 2 hours of movement left. There is snow up to the ears.
04:15. Finally we reached the hut. All of us are safe and sound. We needed 8 hours instead of an hour as usual! That is the real freeride!

Matterhorn. A day of the portaledge hauling up.
22:47. We moved the portaledge 5 pitches up... We are in a real hole. Blizzard... We pitched the portaledge in full darkness.
23:00. We are not going to go to bed soon, only have started to cook dinner.
Sewed up a hole from a stone. Cherezov has his second birthday today. He had a lucky escape. We have 8 pitches more left for about 4 days.

Nikolay Zakharov's letter:
I'm writing from Rust. Yesterday we arrived here from Grindelwald. Today the Eiger team + Denis Prokof'ev left for visiting Robert Shtainer (a German climber and our friend, ascended Khan Tengri in structure of Krasnoyarsk team last summer) and they are going to stay at him before flying away. Grandes Jorasses team descended to the hut, we will take them away from Chamonix on Ferruary 25. Matterhorn team keeps climbing, now they are at about 4000m. They have about 400 m vertical extent ahead. A strong wind, bad weather prevents them to climb. Denis has practically recovered, even went to climb on ice icicles.
Our greetings to all of you.
Nikolay.