Petzl RocTrip 2014: climbing at Meteora in Greece

From October 1 to 6 the Petzl RocTrip 2014 "caravan" stopped off in one of the Greece's most important climbing areas, Meteora. Conglomerate towers and six-hundred year old hermit dwellings were the perfect setting to this exciting stage.




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SHORT CLIMBING HISTORY
In 1958 a tobacco advertisement caught the eye of Dietrich Hasse, a German physicist and alpine climber. The advertisement used as a backdrop some magnificent rock towers. He was stunned and discovered that the area was in Greece, that it was called Meteora and that no form of climbing had ever taken place there. Despite this he constantly postponed his visit to Meteora (as at the time he was occupied in the Dolomites) to as late as 1975, when he visited Greece in collaboration with the photographer Heinz Lothaz Stutte and other German climbers. They immediately started climbing all the major peaks in the area with the exception of the five peaks on which the monasteries are located.

TOPO: Climbing at Meteora, Greece