31 October 2015

Kyparissi - as good as Céüse?

Angy Eiter introduces to us the gorgeous seaside village of Kyparissi, a new world class sport climbing destination. Kyparissi is a small village in one of the last remaining untouched niches of Greece. Surrounded by pristine limestone cliffs, it has waited for a long time before the bolting project was able to be implemented under the supervision of Aris Theodoropoulos. Approximately 130 sport routes of all levels have been equipped in Kyparissi to date. They are distributed across six beautiful crags, with shade both in the morning and in the afternoon. One of these crags, ‘Babala’ (only 30 routes so far), is described by climbers who have tried it as “the best hard sport crag in Greece; something like a Céüse full of steep and futuristic tufa lines on bulletproof orange and blue limestone, with unlimited potential for more hard routes!” More info at Climb Greece (c) Chris Boukoros
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