Ascent Passport
I. Ascent Class — TECHNICAL
- Ascent Region — CENTRAL CAUCASUS
- Ascent Route — Ushba North (4694 m)
VIA NORTH-EAST FACE through the "STOLB" (pillar)
- Presumed Difficulty Category — 6th cat. diff.
- Route Characteristics: ELEVATION GAIN
- 1150 m
EXTENT OF SECTIONS I and II cat. diff.
- 620 m
AVERAGE STEEPNESS of the wall part of the route — 75°
- Pitons Hammered In: for BELAYING
ROCK AND NUT PITONS — 144 pcs. FOR CREATING ARTIFICIAL POINTS
- 18 pcs.
FOR ORGANIZING OVERNIGHTS — 35+2 hangers. ICE SCREWS
- 23 pcs.
- Number of Climbing Hours — 54 h
- Number of Overnights — four (two sitting, one hanging, one lying on snow)
- Participants:
MONAENKOV EVGENIY IVANOVICH — Master of Sports, captain EMIMOV VIKTOR BORISOVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports, deputy captain BOYKO VALERIY VIKTOROVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports, KALAGIN YURIY GRIGORIEVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports, KARZANOV ALEKSANDR VIKTOROVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports, OPOYTSEV NIKOLAY ANATOLIEVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports, PROKOPENKO VALERIY MIKHAILOVICH — Master of Sports, SHCHEGOLEV YURIY KONSTANTINOVICH — Candidate for Master of Sports
- Team Coach — VINOKUROV ANATOLIY FILIPPOVICH, Master of Sports. II. Date of Departure for the Route and Return:
July 20 to July 24, 1981