Climbing the highest mountains of the pre-Polar Ural

Combined tour
Duration – 12 days

Optimal time for rafting is June - August.
It is necessary to take into account that depending on the month of visiting the pre-polar Urals, the tour has specific peculiarities.
June – a beautiful mysterious time of white nights in the pre-polar Urals.
Air temperature is +5 - +20^OC - this time is characterized by high levels of water in the rivers.  Temperature of the water is about +7^OC. For tourists it is necessary to have additional warm clothes, as during the passage through the fords water will flow over the rafts.
July-August - during this time in the pre-polar Urals the summer is at its peak – the sun is shining twenty-four hours a day. Air temperature is +10 - +30^OC.
September - night frosts are possible. Air temperature is +5 - +20^OC - but this is the best time in mountains – the time of picturesque golden autumn. In the autumn in the taiga there are many mushrooms and different kinds of berries.

The program of travel:
1 day
Arrival to the town Inta by train (Moscow-Labytnangi or Moscow-Vorkuta).
You can look at schedule here.
We meet you at the railway station of the town Inta. Registration.
Transfer to the point of start – the settlement Zhelannyj by vehicle "Ural". It takes about 6-8 hours.
Lunch
Start of trekking.
Trekking (6 km) to the tourist tent camp “Oasis".
Accommodation in tent camp. Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
2 day
Breakfast
Trekking to the pass “Kar-Kar” (15 km)
Lunch
Climbing for acclimatization.
Accommodation in tent camp. Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
3 day
Breakfast
Climbing (7 km) Mt. Narodnaya – the highest top (1895 ì) of the Urals mountains.
Mount Narodnaya (Naroda-iz in Komi language) is the highest mountain in the Urals (1895 metres) and it is located on the “Ridge of Researches” in the pre-polar Urals.
It was discovered in 1927 by the Severouralsk expedition by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the management of A.Aleshkov.
The peak, discovered on the eve of the 10^th anniversary of the “Great October Revolution”, was named “Narodnaya” (People’s), in honour of the Soviet people by A.Aleshkov. Also there is a version that the mountain was named according to the name of the river Naroda which flows from slopes of Mt. Narodnaya (basin of the river Northern Sosva).
Lunch
After we climb Mt. Narodnaya we go down to the foot of mountain.
Accommodation in tent camp. Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
4 day
Breakfast
Trekking to the foot of Mt. Manaraga (26 km).
Lunch
Accommodation in tent camp. Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
5 day
Breakfast
Climbing Mt. Manaraga (1820 ì).
Lunch
Accommodation in the tent camp.
Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
6 day
Breakfast
Trekking to the pass “Kar-Kar” (15 km)
Lunch
Accommodation in tent camp. Dinner
Spent the night in double tents.
7 day
Breakfast
Trekking across the pass “Kar-Kar” to the settlement Zhelannyj
Transfer to the town Inta by a vehicle.
Russian Baths. Farewell dinner.
Transfer to the railway station.
Departure of group.

Cost includes:
- transfer from the town Inta to the settlement Zhelannyj.
- transfer to the town Inta from the base “Kruglaya Yama”.
- rent of special equipment (tents, sleeping bags, equipment for preparing meal etc.)
- visit the nature park “Yugyd-Va”
- guide (cook)
- meal, according to the program.
- interpreter          

Cost does not include:
- visa support
- transfer to/from the town Inta
- alcohol
- equipment for fishing
- special warm clothes and rubber boots