rock 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 littl... D-3, World Climbing Championship, Arco
Mio amico Ale has checked out by internet that the busses Verona-Arco work till 10pm. So when I arrived to Verona from Val Pellice at about 9:30... D-2, Climbing in Tuscany and Val Pellice
After
Mt Weissmies
I got back to Florence to my friend Ale, Dani, Lau and nice guy Giacomo. The next days it was supposed to join Ale... Afterfest...
With the end of the Festival our motivation didn´t end! We saw so many lines, still unclimbed that we decided to spend one more week in... Armenian First Ascent Open Festival May 21-31, 2011 - Outcome
Armenian First Ascent Open Festival 2011 was successfully and productively completed. 48 traditional, sport and bou... Armenian First Ascent Open Festival - May 29-31, 2011 Garni Gorge and Enclosing Party
In the morning of May 29, the crew left for Garni Gorge, the last destination of the Festival where basalt columns rock formations were wa... Armenian First Ascent Open Festival - May 26-28, 2011 Arpa Gorge
In the afternoon of May 26, the event crew set up the camp on the plateau above Arpa Gorge, one of two basalt columns formation of Armenia. Like...
rope jumping
New jump from Davidashen bridge(100m high) - 40m free fall, 55m fall depth
We decided to perform it on 22 of June, on Sunday, but it started raining at that moment and so that the ropes didn’t get wet I decid... Swinging Rope Jumping 01.12.07
Since I saw Erik Perlman’s film ‘Masters of Stone 5’ in which Dan Osman performs his mad tricks of rope jumping I couldn’t stop thinki...
backcountry skiing
Heliskiing in Armenia - Photoblog
On March 17-24, the program of heliskiing in Armenia run with sunny weather and good snow. With our guests from Austria, Germany, Holland ... French Ski-tour in Armenia - Photoblog
From Feb 25 to March 5, a French group was hosted by Up The Rocks for ski-touring program in Armenia.
Among our honourable guests was th... Ski-touring in Armenia and more
Mystic basalt columns and limestone had been the initial motivation
to travel to Armenia, but the potential for outdoor adventures took us... Dobré a bezpečné lyžování v Arménii
With Jan Pala, we had planned this trip around a year ago. Those times in his dreams the ski-alpinism and heliskiing in Armenia looked like ... Ski-tour on Mt. Aragats 4090m
Andranik Miribyan, John Clinton and me set off to the village Aragats.
The destination was to explore a new Ski-tour route for "Geographic Tra...
mountaineering
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. The au... Expedition on mount Alamkouh(4850m), Iran
On the 14th of Aug the team arrived at Tehran. After lodging at our friend Arayik’s place and having a rest along with Sourik we set of... News about the climbing action on mt Alamkouh’s north wall. “French route” was chosen, 600m, A1 6c
The team of climbers is going to set out for Tehran in the morning of 13 of Aug. After getting to Tehran in the afternoon of 14th and stayin... Aghvan Chatinyan (Armenian hard man)
Aghvan Chatinyan was born on December 14, 1927 in Vardapluri, a village in Stepanavan, Armenia. In 1945 graduated from Kirovakan Agricultural ... Freaky Kazbek expedition
At the beginning of August, 2007 our Armenian friends from Iran Sourik Stepanian and Araik Jahanian came to Yerevan to set off for Georgia, K... 
