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SSummitMateAscent certificate for the SOAN peak (2952 m) via the South Wall, category 5B difficulty, with a detailed description of the route and its passage.
Ascent Passport
- Ascent class — rock
- Ascent area — Eastern Sayan, Tunkinskiye Belki ridge
- Peak, its height — v. SOAN, 2952 m, ascent route — South wall
- Assumed category of difficulty — 5B
- Route characteristics:
- Height difference — 652 m
- Length of sections with 5–6 category of difficulty — 515 m
- Average steepness of main sections — 72°
Route Description: Ю стене
SSummitMateAscent to the summit via the southwest wall with a detailed description of the route and technical difficulties.
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Route Description: Ю стене
SSummitMateClimbing route of 5A category of complexity to the top of SOAN (2952 m) in the Eastern Sayan Mountains via the South wall with a detailed description and recommendations.
SOAN Peak (2952 m)
The route along the South wall (approx. 5A cat. diff.) - SOAN peak (Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences) is located in a lateral spur of the Tunkin Range of the Eastern Sayan Mountains between the Zuun-Khandagai and Talta rivers. The most studied and interesting mountaineering routes to SOAN peak start from the Zuun-Khandagai valley. The Sayan rivers are frozen from November to mid-May. Ice fields and icings remain until mid-July, and snow persists in some valleys until August. Numerous high-altitude lakes are completely ice-free by the second half of July, are deep, and lifeless. There is no glaciation in the Sayan region. The most favorable months for ascent are:
- June,
- July,
- first half of August.