Ascent Passport

1. Category: rock climbing
2. Region: Crimea, Batiliman
3. Peak: Kush-Kaya
4. Route: via the Southwest wall through the "sole" on the left
5. Category of difficulty: 3B, first ascent
6. Route characteristics: height difference — 440 m, length — 540 m. Average steepness — 54°
7. Equipment used: rock pitons — 5 pcs., nuts — 17 pcs.
8. Duration: 4 hours, descent via trail — 0.5 hours.
9. Leader: Vorobyov Mikhail Sharpovich CMS, participants: Nesterov Vitold Petrovich 1st category, Pavlov Yuri Dmitrievich CMS
10. Coach: Kaver Igor Kirillovich
11. Ascent completed on March 4, 1995.
12. Organization: Sevastopol Alpine Club

KUSH-KAYA via SW wall through the "sole" on the left 3B category

Approach from the left of the "Airiki" wall up the couloir 140 m to under the right part of the gray wall, under the yellow rocks.

R0–R1. Start up the broken yellow rocks 18 m, then left through two trees to a ledge and along it left 30 m to a tree. Then 60 m right-up on ledges and 20 m up and left to a tree on a ledge under the cornice — the "brow".

R2–R3. 50 m straight up the rocks with ledges and corners past a dry pine to the next pine.

R3–R4. Through a small corner past a tree on slabs 50 m up and slightly right to the exit to the left side of the bowl.

R4–R5. On the slabs of the bowl, with steepness up to 45°, go 150 m to the base of a large internal corner.

R5–R6. From the tree at the start of the corner on simple rocks right-up to the left crack of the "sole" 40 m and up the crack 10–15 m. Insurance point at the junction of two cracks.

R6–R7. Up the crack overgrown with grass with broken sections 25–30 m to the top of the "sole".

R7–R8. 5 m left-up to a small ledge with a bolt piton, then 12–15 m left and slightly up to the second bolt. From it, traverse left on the slab and on the broken rocks 20–25 m to the insurance point on ledges.

R8–R9. 50 m straight up the broken rocks to the summit.

Necessary equipment: rope — 50 m; nuts — 6–7 pcs.; rock pitons — 4–6 pcs.