Climb to Mount Ararat - route description

--- choose route --- from Elli Koy (2150m) to Base Camp (3350m) from Base Camp (3350m) to Camp 1 (4120m) from Camp 1 (4120m) to Ararat summit (5165m)

from Ararat Base Camp to Camp 1

• start poing: Ararat Base Camp (3350m)
• final point: C1 (4120m)
• ascent time: 2hrs 30mins to 3hrs 30mins
• height meters to beat: 800m
• huts along the route: none
• water along the route: none

• i walked this route: july 2013

• gear needed: standard mountaineering / trekking gear

• difficulty:
- just walking; stony terrain; it was completely snowless beginning of July

• route description:
- it's relatively short climb from BC to C1
- first, longer section goes in regular and neverending zig-zags over stony slope to app. 3800m
- follows short steeper stretch to the right, to barely visible col on ridge


part of the route from BC to app. 3750m

- one continues gently up over wide stony ridge to app. 4000m
- last 100 or 150 height meters
- Camp 1 are two small and one larger platform, where one can build tents - 4090m, 4120m and 4170m
- best is to camp on the top one, but during main season it's often occupied by large organised groups


climb between 3850m and 3950m