Au-Dag is covered with legends. In ancient times the mountain caused the sacred feeling of nature's power. According to an old legend, a giant bear who lived here became a stone, trying to drink the sea and to stop fugitives.

Àâòîð: Eugene Shmidt, Yalta

You can receive evidence in the contrast of Ay-Petri climate, if you ascend from Yalta to the plateau, and change hot sub Mediterranean climate to moderate cold, damp climate. The average air temperature in Yalta is +13,1°, on Ay-Petri it is +5,9°, temperature difference is in these points is about 7,2°.

Author: Fomenko Alexandra, Yalta
Photos: Alexander Demin, Simeiz

A Story about Skiing Ortsveri NE face (3A), Mkinvartsveri (Mt. Kazbek) SE face (3B), East Ramp (3B) & South Flank (2B) and Maili-Khok West Ridge (2B). May 2008, Georgian side of Caucasus.

Àâòîð: Peter Shoen (Styria, Astria).

On June, 23, Krasnoyarian team (Nikolay Zakharov – leader, climbers: Alexander Mikhaylitsyn, Vladimir Arkhipov, Serguey Cherezov, Eugueniy Beljaev, Igor Loginov, and doctor Alexander Kukharev a.k.a. Bormental) camped at the base of the Skyang Kangri.

Àâòîð: Anna Piunova, Mountain.RU.
Photo: E. Belyaev, A. Mikhalitsyn, V. Arkhipov.

We started the descent, finding out our hooks. The upper ones we passed through but found ourselves on the station below marble zone. From that place there were two ropes for descending using descenders down to the fixed ropes, so we couldn’t miss then.

Author: Anatoly Dguly, Moscow, Russia.

In my opinion it is a thankless thing to write about the Fanskie Mountains. They have written a lot about them and the region has become well explored, but nevertheless… I’ll try. May, this review will become useful for somebody.

Author: Anatoly Dguly, Moscow, Russia.

During walking days we were working for7-12 hours, the relief was mostly slide-rocky, or very difficult ice-snowy, climbing sometimes in crampons, sometime without them.

Author: Anatoly Dguly, Moscow