The summit of ZINDON is located in the Pravy Zindon gorge and closes the northwestern part of the ridge-pirka.

The route is combined, rock-ice, along the southern ridge from the saddle between the peaks ENERGIYA and ZINDON. Descent to the saddle along the ridge leading to the peak SO AN.

The exit is from the "Green glade below the CHIMTARGA pass". The ascent to the saddle between ENERGIYA and ZINDON is along a snowy slope of 35–40°. In the absence of crampons, the ascent is possible along the scree on the left.

1st checkpoint — the saddle.

Along the ridge to the first gendarme. The ridge is initially snowy, with destroyed gendarmes. Bypassing a snowy mulda — to the first gendarme. The rocks are frozen, destroyed limestones.

A series of gendarmes is overcome, on the summit of one of them:

• 2nd checkpoint — gendarme.

The edge of the last gendarme ends with a sheer rock wall (30–40 m) at the front. To the right — an inclined plate (60°), covered with flow ice. At the bottom, the plate rests against a narrow rocky ridge.

Descent along the inclined wall via "dolphin" (30 m), subsequent movement with a deviation to the right along steep snow onto the ridge.

Movement along the sharp rocky ridge to the second gendarme.

Ascent directly up the rock wall. The final part with the exit onto the ridge — traverse of a steep (80°) snowy slope to the right along the route.

A bivouac is possible on a scree site below the ridge of the 2nd gendarme.

Along the long rocky ridge to a sheer monolithic wall, against which the ridge abuts. To the right, the rock is smoothed out by "sheep's foreheads". To the left, 30 m below the ridge, it is intersected by a destroyed red shelf.

The lower part of the rock is passed along the red shelf, ascent along a steep couloir of destroyed rocks with an exit to the right onto the main ridge. At the top, a rope is organized (120 m, 40° for the entire section).

Often, a rock terrace — this is the upper part of the destroyed rocks of the lower section to the monolithic rocks that make up the summit ridge. The section is passed along a diagonally ascending crack to the left (0.5 m, 60°). The length of the section is 80 m.

Ascending onto the ridge, we pass:

• an enormous, bifurcated boulder at the top (30 m, 80°)

Ascent along the ridge, a rocky ascent, which is overcome along a vertical crack with a stone plug at the top.

30 m above the exit from the crack, at the upper base of the couloir leading to the ridge, on a rocky shelf, an overnight stay is possible.

After a short ridge (80–120 m) to a gendarme, bypass to the left along a scree shelf. On the ridge, an enormous overhanging "goat's forehead":

• the lower part of the rock is bypassed to the right along a crack,
• the upper part — to the left along a steep icy couloir with an exit onto the ridge.

Section 120 m.

Further to the summit along a snowy ridge of average steepness. Descent to the saddle towards the peak SO AN along a snowy ridge with rock outcrops (25–30°). The descent is complex. In the middle part, traverse of a snowy-icy couloir, with the use of crampons and ice axes, to the right along the extreme right branch of the couloir along the route (30–40°).

In the lower part of the couloir along the rocks on the left side (30–40°). The right walls of the couloir are stone-hazardous in the second half of the day.

Before exiting onto the glacier:

• a snow-covered bergschrund.

The route took 3 days.