Up The Rocks

The project of Armenian First Ascent Open Festival 2009

July 17 was a calm day and with all the team we went up by the slope to the “Devil’s tower”. The lower part of the tower columns are corrosive, and I decided to make the line by the separated from the tower lower part column.

It took me 2 hours to get adapted in my mind to the idea of climbing this column as it looked really scary. Plus, during these two days we had seen a couple of huge eagles flying very close to the tower as their nest was 50 meters left from the tower, so we were worried about the possibility of being attacked by them… thinking about that scenario I found out by myself that it would be a great honor for me to be attacked by an eagle ;)

So Vadik got all his bravery to belay standing under the separated huge column which could fall at any time and the climbing started !
I can’t add anything about that climb to what Will Nazarian wrote commenting to the pic put in the Facebook: “Rock of the God's”

As during the climb no eagles were flying around above, we decided to call the route “Eagles aren’t at home”

The description of the route “Eagles aren’t at home” :
28m single pitch, 5.8 A0 (6b+ by free climbing), FA.
Metolius cams: #0 x 4, # 2 x 2, # 5 x 2, #7 x 4, #8 x 4, # 6 x 2
Kong stoppers: #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 There was put 10mm x 45mm single rappel anchor
Some loose stones have been dropped down from the route.

Remember, we do not guarantee the rocks are solid, be extremely careful while climbing the route !!!
Get a permission from the Ministry of Nature Protection of RA to climb the rocks!!!
Climb the columns only and only by clean climbing style.
DO NOT ADD ANY BOLTS OR PITONS !!!

read the full story of the climb here