
As Jan missed the first part of the trip in the previous article I will add it. We had planned first to explore the part of Zangezur Mt range slopes for ski-touring. I had never been there before either…
Zangezur, a tectonic Mt. ...

The last week of August 2008 I was on a business trip in Armenia. I had also free time on weekend, and it was very easy to decide going somewhere in the mountains near the capital Yerevan.
With my Armenian colleague Mkhitar Mk...

On April 8, 2008, two days after flying twelve time zones around the world, I got into a Soviet made 1988 Volga with two Armenian strangers and went off to climb Armenia’s highest mountain. My wife, Kelly, had won a U.S. State De...

On July 26, 2006 my uncle with friends were planning to climb mount Ararat and two days before the trip they offered me to join them. I happily accepted their suggestion motivated by the strong wish to be in Western Armenia.
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