Ascent Passport

1. Region: Western Sayan, Ergaki ridge, section number according to the 2001 classification table - 6.2

2. Peak: Zvezdny 2265, via the chimney on the South face, 5A

3. Route type: rock

4. Route elevation gain: 320 (by altimeter)

   Route length: 450 m. Length of sections:

   • V difficulty category – 120 m.
   • VI difficulty category – 150 m. Average steepness:
   • main part of the route – 83°
   • entire route – 68°

5. Pitons left on the route:

   total 2; including bolted pitons 0. Pitons used on the route:

   • stationary bolted pitons: 4 (including ATO: 1)
   • removable bolted pitons: 0 (including ATO: 0) Total artificial holds (ATO) used: 32

6. Team's travel time:

   15 hours, 1 day

7. Team composition:

   Smaikina Svetlana Vladimirovna, 1st sports category; Shirina Elena Nikolaevna, Candidate Master of Sports.

8. Coach:

   Filatyev O.V., Candidate Master of Sports, instructor 3rd category.

9. Departure to the route: 7:00 June 24, 2007

   Reaching the summit: 20:00 June 24, 2007 Return to Base Camp: 22:00 June 24, 2007

General view of the South face of p. Zvezdny.

1 — via the SW ridge, 5A (Lebedev, 96); 2 — via the chimney on the South face, 5A (Cherezov, 99); 3 — via the "mirror" center of the South face, 5B (Terentyev, 2001); 4 — via the center of the South face, 5A (Lebedev, 96); 5 — via the East ridge, 3B (Shalyakin, 97)

Technical photograph of the route.

Profile of the South face on the right.

Section R3–R4

Section R4–R5

Section R5–R6

Section R6–R7. Passage of the key section of the route – the chimney.

Section R7–R8. Passage of the key section of the route.