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Ascent Log

1. Ascent category — technical
2. Ascent region — Fan Mountains
3. Ascent route — v. Zindon via the north wall, 4800 m
4. Ascent characteristics: height difference 1000 m average steepness 75°, complex section length 880 m
5. Pitons used: rock 207, including 24 wooden wedges ice 8, no bolt pitons
6. Total climbing hours 95.5
7. Number of nights and their characteristics — seven:

The group started the route on July 8, 1977. Ahead of us, two days earlier, the group of "Artuch" tourist club, led by, started on the same route on July 8, 1977. First Day

• Departure from the bivouac on the moraine under the route at 5:30 am.
• We walked 100 m of a snowy slope and approached the bergschrund filled with snow.
• Further ascent to a snow-ice shelf, which leads to the left edge of the rock wall of the I belt. From the snow shelf, we ascended to a 35 m internal vertical corner with an overhanging wall, which leads to a small steep shelf. Above the shelf, the internal corner continues straight up for 30 m and ends with an overhang. Then, we moved left to a crack, leading to the beginning of the slab, bypassing the exit to a large stone on the snow shelf, as the first ascenders did (Emelyanenko Yu.). This deviation from the path of the first ascenders does not simplify the route and seems more logical under our conditions. The edge of the slab forms a steep internal corner with the wall, covered with flow ice, with a cornice and smooth walls. Ascent to the slab:
• Initially, through the right part of the crack (crevice), and then through the left
• Exit to steep blocky rocks, through which we ascended to the top of the slab. Here, we bivouacked at 17:00.