ASCENT DOCUMENT.

1. Technical category, combined route.
2. Central Caucasus, Digoria, Sugansky Ridge.
3. Malaia Nakhashbita, 4300 m, South Ridge.
4. Category 4B difficulty.
5. Height difference 600 m; average steepness of rock sections determining the route complexity is 65°; total length of these sections is 200 m; total route length is 1450 m.
6. Pitons hammered for protection: rock — 22, ice — 13, used chocks — 21.
7. Travel time is 15 hours.
8. One overnight stay on a snow-ice knife-bridge before the "Big Gendarme" on the route.
9. Group leader: BRINK Ivan Yuryevich — 1st sports category. Group members: OVCHINNIKOVA Galina Nikolaevna — 1st sports category, KREMEN Anatoly Alekseevich — 2nd sports category, CHERNOV Alexander Alexandrovich — 2nd sports category.
10. Team coach: Master of Sports of International Class ARTSISHEVSKY Yuri Yuryevich.
11. Date of departure from "Digoria" tourist camp — July 29, 1980. Date of return to "Digoria" tourist camp — August 2, 1980.

Panorama of the Sugansky Ridge.

Along the South Ridge to the East Main Nakhashbita. Photo #1. South wall of the South Ridge of the East Main Nakhashbita.

Sugansky Ridge diagram.

To the East Main Nakhashbita. Photo #2. South ridge of the East Main Nakhashbita.