Kyparissi: Two new crags (The Hideout & Balogeri) just in time for the festival!
(Updated May 10, 2019) Two outstanding new crags, Balogeri and The Hideout, have been bolted in Kyparissi since last month. If you are waiting for the last minute to make plans for the festival here...
View ArticleBouldering & Climbing Festival on Ikaria, 15-17 June 2019
The lush island of Ikaria is known for many things associated with a good life: irresistible, days-long Dionysian festivals, quirky residents who seem immune to old age and to the concept of...
View Article2nd Nestos Climbing Festival in Northern Greece, 8-9 June 2019
Northern Greece, for a change! The Nestos River area, near the cities of Xanthi and Komotini, is one of the northernmost areas in Greece. The local alpine clubs are putting together a climbing festival...
View ArticleAgios Petros introduces itself with a festival (18-20 Oct, 2019)
Agios Petros, one of Peloponnese’s newest sport crags, is tucked away in Mount Parnon, a mountain range with fantastic limestone cliffs from which climbing venues like Leonidio and Kyparissi have...
View ArticleLocked Down on Varasova Mountain
by Tom Lake & Caitlin Green We left the van just as it was getting light. Ahead of us was the longest climb either of us had ever attempted, 18 pitches that would take us to the top of Varasova...
View ArticleAbout our new Leonidio & Kyparissi guidebook
Guidebook writing is competitive. Ideally, this should cause every edition of a guidebook to be vastly improved over the previous edition, resulting in increasingly better guidebooks, which in turn...
View ArticleΣχετικά με τον νέο αναρριχητικό μας οδηγό “Leonidio & Kyparissi”
Η συγγραφή αναρριχητικών οδηγών είναι ανταγωνιστική. Ιδανικά αυτό θα έπρεπε να κάνει την κάθε έκδοση ενός οδηγού ανώτερη από την προηγούμενη, δημιουργώντας έτσι όλο και καλύτερους οδηγούς, οι οποίοι με...
View ArticleClimbing and bolting in Frygani, Greece / Winter-Spring 2021
Frygani sits amidst the hospitable plateaus of Mount Kyllini, west of Corinth, on the Peloponnese peninsula. The area has none of what people usually associate with Greece. There is no blue-and-white...
View ArticleNew routes and climbing sectors in Frygani, Greece (winter 2020 / spring 2021)
Throughout the pandemic winter and spring (2020/2021), a small group of us worked on the conglomerate cliffs in and around Frygani, on the north of the Peloponnese peninsula. Developing new climbing...
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