Rock and Ice climbing

  • "Spitak" rescue team’s climbing Noravanq canyon

      With the "Spitak" Rescue Center's young team, we went to further explore the Noravank (Gnishik) canyon.

     
  • Kids are leading

    On the end of the August Ellen J. Brager wrote me that her 11 years old daughter wants to take rock climbing lessons.

     
  • Old friends of the mountains meet in Armenia

    “Amazing Armenia” – this was the title of a big article published in the “Rock & Ice” magazine in the US in 2010.

     
  • America to Armenia

    Phhh. Our car stalls in the Zvartnots parking lot just as the third member of our climbing team, Marius, reports he “knows how to drive stick.” 

     

Mountaineering and Backcountry skiing

  • Ski Season 2023


       Like in the Alps and Caucasus, the snow conditions were poor in Armenia as well during past winter months. In Aspen though, where I spent skiing and teaching for the ski school there, it was a decent early season and very good snow throughout the seasonThen came the long awaited March to guide for ski touring in Armenia.

     
  • Ski touring in Georgia

    While the ski tour program in Armenia last year, Philippe Descamps, with his group of skiers, was interested in the ski tour trip in Georgia for March 2013.

     
  • Alexey Shustrov in Armenia again!

    A great pleasure and fun is to ski with a good friend Alexey Shustrov, who investigated so much to promote ski touring in Armenia.

     
  • French Ski-tour in Armenia

    From Feb 25 to March 5, a French group was hosted by Up The Rocks for ski-touring program in Armenia.

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