Ascent Passport.
- Winter ascent category.
- Region 2.10 Dagestan Mountains.
- Erydag, 3925 m, via the center of the Western wall bastion, rock route.
- Category 5B difficulty, second ascent.
- Route characteristics: wall section height difference — 450 m, total — 825 m, wall section length — 640 m, total — 2140 m, length of sections with category 5 difficulty — 325 m, category 6 — 80 m, average route steepness — 70°.
- Equipment used on the route:
rock pitons 72/20
chocks 53/15
friends 15/5
bolt pitons 15/2
ice screws 0/0
Left on the route:
- rock pitons 2
- bolt pitons 0
- Team travel days — 4; hours — 34; including preliminary processing — 6.
- Overnights: first — in the assault camp below the route; second — on a rock shelf in a tent on a prepared platform; third — on a rock shelf in a tent on a prepared platform; fourth — on descent after the summit.
- Team members: Velikanov Vladimir Yuryevich — Master of Sports Kurbanov Kurban Magomedovich — 1st sports category
- Coach: Murtazaliev Ziyabutin Murtazalievich
- Departure from "Erydag" base camp, preliminary processing — February 28, 1998. Summit — March 3, 1998. Return to "Erydag" base camp — March 4, 1998 at 12:00
- Organization: Dagestan Republican Rescue Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
GENERAL SUMMIT PHOTO
1 — Team route, control tour, overnight stays 2 — Samoded route, via the central part of the 3rd wall through "feathers", category 5B difficulty 3 — Novikov route, 86, via the left central part of the 3rd wall, category 5B difficulty Photo taken on February 28, 1998.
TECHNICAL PHOTO OF THE ROUTE
Photo taken on February 28, 1998.
Photo 1. Section R0–R7. First bastion. R1–R7 — belay points. Photo taken on February 23, 1998.