Up The Rocks

On July 1, club Up The Rocks kicked off the “Arev” Armenian First Ascent Open Festival. The guest participants at that point where from Iran (5 climbers) and Russia (Vadik Sirekanyan).

5pm after the Yerevan’s hot noon, Festival team moved to the 25m basalt rocks (1,5 km to the north-east of Davidashen bridge) Hrazdan gorge, Yerevan.
After getting there Hossein Roshanmanesh and Mostafa Saghaf did FA of “Qazvin firefighters” free climbed, 40m, R1 - 5.10a(20m, 7 small cams, 3 pitons, natural anchor), R2 – 5.10d(20m, 6 small size cams, 1 piton, 2 natural protection, natural anchor).
During his climbing Hossein Roshanmanesh dropped a lot of loose stones down, and one of them scared crowd on the ground a lot.

After team got back to the “Spitak” rescue center, Vadik Sirekanyan from Miass Russia did the FA of the boulder problem “Blood analyze” V6, 13 hand mooves.It's a pity we couldn’t take photos in the dark. The crux part is overhanging relief with fingertip pockets for both hands and bad footholds on the friction, then you need to dyno up.
Tomorrow at noon the climbers will move to the Noravanq canyon for a 10 days climbing. Wait for the Noravanq climbing news on July 12-13!
Club Up The Rocks is very thankful to bro Will Nazarian !