Rock and Ice climbing

  • 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.

     
  • “Toilet pan” V0

    Yesterday together with Mkrtich Nazarian we went to Hrazdan gorge to take pictures of the rocks “Spitak” rescue team territory for topo. 

     
  • Catching up the cold for warm up

       The winter of 2015 in Armenia is again not that cold for ice climbing, but we bought the short gap.

     
  • Armenian Bouldering Open Championship 2025

      On October 19th, with the support of the Armenian Alpine Club and our title sponsor Unibank OJSC the Boulderland Yerevan climbing gym organized and held the Armenian Bouldering Open Championship. 

     

Mountaineering and Backcountry skiing

  • Ski Season 2025

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

     
  • Freaky Kazbek expedition

    On the beginning of August, 2007 our Armenian friends from Iran Sourik Stepanian and Araik Jahanian came to Yerevan to set off for Georgia, to climb up Mt Kazbek (5033m) with ‘Spitak’ rescue team members.

     
  • Aghvan Chatinyan (Armenian hard man)

    Aghvan Chatinyan was born on December 14, 1926 in Vardapluri, a village near Stepanavan, Armenia. 

     
  • Mt Ushba south peak (4710m)

    When two guys, who had never met before and don’t know much about each other (besides couple of g-mails) immediately set of to climb a serious mountain from the meeting place – they call it “nonsense” in mountaineering, you will agree!

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