Ascent Passport

Ascent area: Dagestan Mountains
Name of the peak: Erydag (3950)
Route name: via the left part of NW wall through the "mirror" (S. Efimov's route)
Category of difficulty: 6A
Route type: rock
Height difference: 1254

Wall section height: 1167 m. Route length: 2212 m. Section lengths: V category of difficulty — 200 m, VI category of difficulty — 762 m. Average steepness:
- wall section — 78°
- entire route — 45°
Equipment used on the route/pitons used for artificial climbing (ITO):

Pitons: 28 / 21; Ice screws 0; Drill pitons 42/14 (8 old, 21 removable, 10 sawn off); protection gear: 271/57; Skyhooks hole-type 28/28, relief-type 14/14; Fifas 140/135. Total ITO used: 269 points. Left on the route: Drill pitons 11 (8 old), sawn off 10.
Leader: Polyenov Dmitry Yuryevich, CMS Team members: Polyenov Dmitry Yuryevich, CMS, Veiko Denis Vadimovich, CMS, Kirichenko Ruslan Sergeyevich, CMS, Krasnov Dmitry Yuryevich, CMS, Koltunov Oleg Sergeyevich, CMS, Nagaev Rustem Raisovich, CMS
Belay location: Below the route
Moving hours: 96 (including descent from the summit — 2 h)
Start of ascent: February 15, 2007 at 9:30 Summit reached: February 26, 2007 at 17:30 Return to belay location: February 26, 2007 at 19:30

www.alpfederation.ru↗ Photo 1. General photo:

1 — Shchedrin's route;
2 — Efimov's route;
3 — alternative route through the lower section from our viewpoint, considered safer;
4 — Babitsky's route.

Photo 2. Wall profile.

Ascent graph (time to reach designated height).

Fig. 2. UYYA scheme.

Fig. 2a. UYYA scheme, continued.

Fig. 2b. UYYA scheme (end). Photo. Technical photo:

1 — Shchedrin's route;
2 — Efimov's route (completed by the group);
3 — Babitsky's route.

Note from control point #2

Control point #1 was not found because the lower part of the route (about 200 m) was traversed 20–30 m to the right, for safety reasons. According to available data, the traversed variant is not inferior in complexity to the original and seems to us no less logical.

Control point #3 — no note was found, our note was left.

Control point at the summit — no note was found, our note was left.

Photo 4. R1, R2. Kirichenko leads, Nagaev, Veiko on the route.