7summits.com spent twenty years as an expedition operator and now organises no trips at all. What it does instead is keep the record: who climbed what, and when.
This is the site's own story. One expedition up Kilimanjaro on Christmas Day 1998, a company name that was too long, and two decades of guiding the same eight mountains — which is where the route guides here come from, including three that started life as printed Rucksack Readers guidebooks and are now free to read in full.
It is also what the site is today, after being rebuilt from nothing: {count.finishers} 7 summits finishers, several hundred guide pages in four languages, route tracks built from real GPS recordings, and a directory that shows who actually runs each trip on each peak. Everything free today stays free — and what comes next is doing more with what is already here.