С гребню
Rock1Б4,064 m
Route Description: С гребню
SSummitMateAscent to the top of Orёл via the North ridge, category 1B, through the Shternberg pass, with a description of the path from the Adylsu alpine camp.
- Orlyu via the North Ridge (Category 1B route). The path from the Adylsu alpine camp along the Tyutyusu gorge to the stream flowing with waterfalls from the left lateral gorge, which is highly elevated above the Tyutyusu valley, is described in route 184. Crossing the Zapadnyy Kayarta stream, turn left and ascend a steep rocky slope on the right bank of the stream into its valley, above two waterfalls. Then:
- along the moraines and scree along the Zapadnyy Kayarta stream,
- across a simple, gently sloping (with crevasses in the upper part!) Zapadnyy Kayarta glacier, reach the saddle in the ridge between the Orlyu peak on the right and the Glavnaya Kayarta peak on the left — the Shternberg pass. To the pass:
- from the glacier, ascend a steep ice-snow slope (beware of rockfall from the peaks' slopes!),
- then ascend simple, fragmented rocks to the Shternberg pass. On the pass, turn right and:
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