Program:

14th May 19-00 registration. Glade Azau. Hotel "Vershina".

15th May 10-30 race opening ceremony. Glade Azau. Continuation of registration.

12-00 friendly march among the officials of Kabardino-Balkaria region.

16th May 7-00 high-speed heat to the West Elbrus Peak. Start: Garabashi, «Bochki», 3700 m.

17th May 11-00 short vertical race. Start: Elbrus mountainsides.

Heat on the snow-shoes. Start: Garabashi, «Bochki», 3700 m.

18th May 8-00 long personal race (rally format). Start place is specified according to the route state on the race day.
18-00 Awarding. Closing ceremony.

Sky Games competitions took place in Canazei in the Italian Dolomites on July 18 and brought together many fanciers of mountain races. The representatives of different kinds of sport competed in various races: skybike lap (race on bikes up mountain), skyspeed race (100 m race up mountainside) and vertical kilometer race (run with an altitude drop of 1 km).

Sportsmen and tourists from every corner of the world took part in run festival - the main event for these highlands. As well ISF (International Skyrunning Federation) meetings were held during the competitions.

That organization went under the name of the Federation for Sport at Altitude till recently. In July 2008 it was broken up and recommenced under the name of International Skyrunning Federation with new status. According the rules, only one association from each country can be affiliated as a full member of the ISF. The Russian Mountaineering Federation presents our country. It belonged to FSA and become the national voting member of ISF. Besides Russian delegation, representatives of Spain, USA, Germany, France and Mexico come in Canazei.

On General Assembly RMF representative Evgeniy Kolchanov, climber and organizer of many sport events, told about evolution of mountain races in Russia and present project Red Fox Elbrus Race 2009. The race awaked a great interest amongst many international federations, which already plan the participation of their sportsmen next year. The aged European, who had known about 75-years old Valentin Bozhukov participation in Red Fox Elbrus Race, showed the particular activity.

Red Fox Elbrus Race can be included in official ISF calendar after regulation of all technical issues. For example, for Italians it’s more usual the light races in summer clothing on height up to 3000-3,500 m. So they were confused slightly by difficult weather and high mountain altitude conditions of the competitions on Elbrus.