Basalt Column Climbing BAN

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

After a short while we started our trainings and the group got larger. Carolina Brager, Kai Putney, Artavazd Ardhaldjian and Mark Papazian are Up The Rocks' students now! By the schedule, one training per week, I did not expect much for this season. Tying knots, top-roping, belaying.. That’s what I thought is enough for the good success for the first term.

But guess how motivated these accelerates are! They are leading on easy sport already. If we would have one more month of a good weather I believe they would have a chance to lead easy trads as well ;)

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Details: Category: Rock Climbing; Published: 22 November 2010

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MOUNTAIN GUIDING

Rock and Ice climbing

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Mountaineering and Backcountry skiing

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Mt Ushba south peak (4710m)

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