Via del Papa Oct'87 variation

Jebel Safsafa

# on Topo:

Via del Papa Oct'87 variation

5+x

First ascensionists' grade:

V+

Max estimated grade:

6a

Length:

Pitches:

First Ascent:

10

Daniel Peikes, Benjamin Sharabi

Year of FA:

1987

# of bolts en route:

trad

Approach

Route description

NW Face

Older Topo of NW Face

From israeli wiki:

N19:Scala del Cielo; N8:Geissenpeter; N18:Elio’s Route; N5:Black Dyke; N2:The Skull; N7:Com kal; N6:The Mask; N4:Klostersporn; N14:Via del Papa Giovanni Paolo 1; N20:Saturday Night Fever; N11:Warsaw - Tel Aviv Direct; N16:Via del Papa Oct'87 variation; N12:Non-Stop (Warsaw’s variation); N15:Grand Hand Traverse (Papa's Variation); N3:Arba VaKhetzi; N13:Bonch; N1:NE Ridge of Safsafa; N17:Darkness at Noon; N10:Why not?; N9:Geissenpeter (variation)

Descent

Helpful Images

These images have been submitted by climbers, to help others on their adventure.

At the very top right in this picture you can see the notch of the correct descent col with grassy ground and fairly simple descent. The saddle is roughly at (28.5491091, 33.9646042)

looking at the grand hand traverse variation on pitch 5.

the chimney on pitch 7

the crux on pitch 3. source: Misha

this is the view from the belay after pitch 4 down onto the pitch. source: Misha