UIAA YOUTH COMMISSION

Children’s Olympic Reserve School of Mountaineering Sports of Ekaterinburg

INTERNATIONAL

Youth rock climbing festival “Europe – Asia 2005”

Ekaterinburg. Urals. Russia

A short geographical inTRODUCTION

The Ural Mountains forms the natural geographical border between two continents – Europe and Asia. The Ural Mountains stretch for 2000 km from north to south and lies in the territory of Russia. The greatest city of the Urals – Ekaterinburg - is located in the Middle Urals, nearly 1500 km to the east of Moscow, the capital of Russia. Ekaterinburg and Moscow are connected by regular air and railway transport.

The Urals is a peculiar mountain region. There are many wild places - rocks, lakes, forests and mountains - which are very interesting for rock climbers, mountaineers and tourists.

There are many fantastic granite rock faces with vertical and overhanging walls in the Middle Urals, of which the most well-known are Chertovo Gorodische, Seven Brothers and Shikhan. The most picturesque area is the limestone rock faces which are located on the banks of the famous Ural River, Tchusovaya. One of the Tchusovaya rock faces is named “Tolstyak” and recently some modern rock climbing routes (from 5 to 7c on French classification) were equipped there. The height of the rock faces are 30-50 m and wild forests surround them. There are many routes (from very easy to very difficult) at the granite and limestone massifs and it therefore is of interest to beginners as well as advanced rock climbers.

The camp will be for those who like rock climbing, calm rŕfting, adventures and nature.

Dear young people!

If you come to the Urals, you will get opportunities:

Date: 15-29 July 2005

Place: The Ural Mountains, Russia

Participants: Ages 18-25 years old. It is compulsory to have a vaccination against the encephalitic tick. It is desirable to have beginner or advanced rock climbing training.

Highlights: Rock climbing, training, rafting along Tchusovaya River, ecological actions, songs, excursions, meetings friends

Accommodation: Refuges, tents

Meals: Full board

Transfers: By bus, by feet, by train according to the program

Guides: Guides of the Ńhildren’s Olympic Reserve School of Mountaineering Sports of Ekaterinburg

Equipment: Clothes for warm and cool weather, rain protection clothes, trekking boots, climbing shoes, group and individual climbing equipment (tents, ropes, karabiners, rucksack, helmet, sleeping bag, etc), bathing suit, mosquito repellant, electric torch

Arrival: July, 15^th . Participants will be met by representatives of the organising committee at the Koltzovo airport or at the railway station of Ekaterinburg

Departure: 29 July

Price: 250 EURO

The travel expenses to Ekaterinburg and back will have to be paid by the participants (or maybe partly by their federations). The price of the a train ticket from Moscow to Ekaterinburg is about 70 USD there and back (~25 hours in one way).

Registration term: Before June 10^th , 2005. Please send the applications to the numbers below:
Primerov Vitaly, Ńhildren’s Olympic Reserve School of Mountaineering Sports of Ekaterinburg, 28b, Moskovskaya str., Ekaterinburg, Russia, 620014
E-mail: vprimerov@mail.ru

Festival Program

July 15^th Arrival at Ekaterinburg. Settling into accomodation by the participants. Short cultural programm in Ekaterinburg. In the evening: the official opening of the Festival.

July 16^th Transfer by bus or by train to the crag, “Chertovo Gorodische”, near Ekaterinburg. Visiting a historical monument: a Russian monastery. Accomodation in refuges or tents. Rock climbing. Swimming in a small lake. In the evening: “The Russian Dinner of friends”.

July 17^th Rock climbing different routes. Ecological action. Swimming in a small lake. In the evening: party - “National traditions and holidays”.

July 18^th Trekking to the “Peschanoe” lake. Swimming in the lake. Returning to “Chertovo Gorodische”. Bouldering. In the evening: “Russian banja”(sauna) and alpinist songs at the camp fire.

July 19^th Transfer to another rock massif called “Seven Brothers”. Organising the tented camp. Rock climbing. Ecological action. In the evening: party - “The games of different nations”.

July 20^th Climbing routes of varying difficulty. Observation of sunset on the top of rock massif. Songs at the camp fire. The game: “What do you know about countries of our friends?”.

July 21^st Transfer to the Ekaterinburg. Cultural program: visiting museum of geology and others. Evening: entertainment program.

July 22^nd Transfer to limestone rock massif, “Tolstyak”, on the bank of the Tchusovaya River. Tented camp. Rock climbing “on sight”, “red point”, top rope, etc. Swimming in the river. Participants will have the opportunity to open a new climbing route under leadership of a Russian climber. The other option is for people to go rafting by catamarans along the Tchusovaya River.

July 23d Rock climbing, setting routes and rafting.

July 24^th Rock climbing, setting routes, rafting. Returning to the tented camp. In the evening: party with a big camp fire.

July 25^th Transfer to the rock massif, “Shikhan”, by bus and on foot (4 km). Organising the tented camp. Rock climbing (height of the rock face is about 35-40 m). Swimming in the “Arakul” Lake. Resting near the lake.

July 26^th Climbing routes of different difficulty. Ecological action. Bouldering. In the evening: “Alpinist jokes and fun competitions”.

July 27^th Rock climbing routes of different difficulty. Elements of high rope course: “Air way”. Resting near and swimming in the lake. In the evening: show - “Shikhan’s spirits”.

July 28^th Departure to Ekaterinburg and farewell party.

July 29^th Departure .

Application form

Name, telephone, fax numbers of contact person contact:______________________

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Place of arrival and means of transport which you plan to use

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Questions:__________________________________________________________

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Location sketch of the Festival

List of equipment for participants of “Youth rock climbing festival “Europe – Asia – 2005” in the Urals

Safety of rafting

Rafting along the Tchusovaja is the additional activity of our camp. It is not so long. Only 2 days. Tchusovaja in this place has very calm stream. Special measures of safety are not necessary. But we shall try to provide everyone by resque waistcoat.