Rock and Ice climbing

  • Long expected meeting with Alexey Trubachev

    Early chilly morning on Sunday, November 22 we started our training.

     
  • “Macedonskiy” 6b, 40m FA trad

    The basalt crag above village Bjni, where during early eighties they organized Soviet Union rock climbing championships, is still desired trad climbing cliff just 32km from Yerevan.

     
  • 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.

     
  • Chichkhan WI3

     During this warm winter in Armenia there was a short period of cold days in early Feb, and we went to “Trchkan” waterfall to which no ice-tool pick has been touched before.

     

Mountaineering and Backcountry skiing

  • Ski Season 2025

      The 2024/25 ski season photo report in Armenia, with videos of exploring new ski lines. 

     
  • 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.

     
  • D-1, Mt Weissmies 4027m

    The stories from series ”D” are about one of my Dreams that came in true: I mean that’s the first climbing trip of mine In Europe.

     
  • Filming the ski tour in Armenia

    In the scope of a workshop for development of incoming tourism to Armenia, Yves Exbrayat, Christophe Raylat from Grenoble, Manu Armand and Julie Lebeurre from Chamonix where our guests.

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