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Albania

  • Grade context: FR
  • Photos: 11
  • Ascents: 393
  • Aka: Shqipëria

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Summary

Beautiful landscapes with infinite climbing potential that has yet to be explored.

Description

The community in Albania is small and enthusiastic and tries to promote and finance their activities by organising an annual climbing festival in October. They maintain a website with general infos about sport climbing in the country at climbingalbania.com. At the time there is no guide book available, but they are in course of developing new crags and adding topos to 27crags, which helps in their financing.

Further information on Albanian rock climbing is available in an essay by John Ely from 2002 „Rock Climbing and Mountaineering in Albania: Photo Essay and Guide“.

Access issues

Please contact Climbing Albania before bolting any new routes.

History

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Sport climbing is a relatively young sport in Albania, kick started only around 2010 by the German Geoquest expedition, which involved local climbers to establish a bigwall route on Maja e Harapit in the North, as well as a centrally located crag at the Bovilla reservoir near Tirana.

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