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Jebel Safsafa

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Right above the beginning of the village, this mountain is impressive. It's sheer walls drew countless mountaineers to St Catherine over the last decades.

Sector info

There are 2 main routes of access, for the West part of Safsafa approach through Wadi Shrej, starting out from Fox Camp. For the east part of Safsafa approach through Wadi al Dir which hosts the monastery and is currently restricted for climbing by the authorities.

Jebel Safsafa

Routes

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Name
No in Topo
Pitches
Grade
Length
Bolts
Anchor
Description
Setters
year
Geissenpeter (variation)
4.5
6c
trad
Yoav Nir, Amnon Shiloni
1987
Non-Stop (Warsaw’s variation)
4.6
10
7b
trad
Yoav Nir, Hanina Kali
1988
Bonch
4.75
8
6c+
300
trad
Hanina Kali, Yoav Nir
1989
Via del Papa Giovanni Paolo 1
5
10
5c+
trad
Daniele Chiappa, Carlo Duchini
1978
Via del Papa Oct'87 variation
5
10
6a
trad
Daniel Peikes, Benjamin Sharabi
1987
Grand Hand Traverse (Papa's Variation)
5.2
10
6c+
trad
Hanina Kali, Airan Ziss
1988
Right to Left
5.8
5
5b
trad
Dimitry Kuzin and Mikhail Khomenyuk
2012
Partizan
5.9
6-7
5b-6a
trad
Mikhail Khomenyuk, Alexander Ershov
2014
Darkness at Noon
6
5
5c
200
trad
Danny Wolfstein, Yaron Bashen
1984
Elio’s Route
6.1
6-7
5c A1
300
trad
Elio Scarabelly, Victor Kaftal
1977
Scala del Cielo
7
13-18
5a
trad
Daniele Chiappa, Andrea Anati
1978
Saturday Night Fever
8
10
5a
trad
Giuseppe Gallizia, Nitzan Kimchi
1984

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