Up The Rocks

Early morning on Sunday, November 22 we started our training. Me, Luca and Tatevik headed to the usual training spot – bouldering section underneath Spitak rescue center.

Afterwards, on the way to Spitak, I was told by the guys at the center that our friend Tosh informed them about Alexy’s visit to Spitak rescue center. So instead of leaveing Spitak I waited for our long waited guest - i waited for this moment for 4 years.
Alexey Trubechev from Russia has contributed to the set-up of all the 13 sport climbing routes in Armenia so far, in Noravanq and Hell’s canyons. Particularly, he contributed to the correct and intelligent set-up of those routes. The hardest of these are “Nzhdeh” and “Karich”, which are estimated to be 7a. The number of routes is expected to increase and Alexey expressed his ultimate desire to contribute in this effort and raise the bars for harder routes. He said that during his next visit to Armenia, he hoped to implement his plan of setting up more sport routes.
We had wonderful time climbing for about an hour, after which we said farewell to each other. He was in a rush to airport, which explains the short duration of this meeting.

Here is Alexey’s website if you wish to find more information about his activity and trips to Armenia www.alexclimb.com.

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Here are some of the pics of our early morning training before meeting with Aleksy.

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