Rock and Ice climbing

  • Attempt on "Take off" 7c max, 140m


    A small photo and video report of the attempt of "Take off" in Noravank canyon. 

     
  • Dancing the vertical and horizontal lines of Armenia

    Before reading an article in Rock & Ice and watching Sam Bie’s excellent film on Armenian climbing, we virtually knew nothing about this little land locked country, except for the genocide and their world famous wrestlers.

     
  • Experience with Alex Chabot and Sam Bie

    When Sam Bie emailed me about their wish to visit Armenia with Alex Chabot and establish new routes on basalt columns then I realized that the rock climbing is going to rise on the new level in Armenia.

     
  • Tigranes The Great

       "Tigranes The Great" is my beloved climb on Titanic Rock in Gnishik canyon, Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. I have bolted it in 2018 and climbed it in 2019.

     

Mountaineering and Backcountry skiing

  • “Zangezour” FA on NE buttress of Mt Khoustoup 3201m

    In the night of Oct 24 we met with Vladimir Belousov in Zvartnots airport, Yerevan.

     
  • Ski Season 2021

       One of the best seasons in terms of snow abundance and stability during the past decade in Armenia. Although without ski-touring tourists this winter, we made it quite fun anyway!

     

     
  • Recce ski-touring on Mt Aragats

    With an aim to explore a new Ski-tour route for Geographic Travel Club Andranik Miribyan, John Clinton and me set off to the village Aragats.

     
  • 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.

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