Clean climbing in Macedonia

21.11.2011, 14:31, Rock Empire s.r.o.

In the past two years a part of the Macedonian climbing community http://www.alpinizam.org/eng/intro1.html is working on a development of new clean climbing crags – using only cams, nuts and slings for belaying. These crags are situated in a vast area near the town of Prilep (about 130km south of Skopje) and now there are at least 4 smaller areas (rocks that are 30-150m high) where there are many new routes with different technical difficulties but also many more possibilities for new lines. The main goal of this project (apart from having lots of fun climbing) is to raise awareness of the impact that climbers can have on the environment, on the sport itself and the future generations of climbers by unnecessary bolting of these granite rocks. 

This area is also getting more and more popular for bouldering: literally thousands of boulders in different sizes and forms and already very popular among the Slovenian climbers who visit these rocks few times every year… Rock Empire is proud to announce that starting from this year through our equipment we support the project and the goals of this community.