Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Day 16 Olympos

Just past midnight, 24 degrees in tent. Nice chat with George and Si over the remains of the fire (from cooking supper) - found out about the 'old school' comments and who made them! Seems we've all had the same comments, so we are in good (or bad) company. Also found out George has climbed to 7600 m on Everest. Cool huh!
A nice day's climbing: walked through Roman ruins to Cennet - hot (very) walking up hill - but amazing to be walking amongst the ruins e.g. perfect cylindrical columns etc. Medeterainian sea looking beautiful (ripply). 5b 5c+ (easy) 5c+ and a 6a+ (with truly awful final wrist jam in a thing like a cheese grater). By the way, before all this, up at 6 am to climb a 5b opposite the camping place - tired! After the Cennet climbing, went for a swim cold but clear - little fishes. Too hot though to sit on the beach. Final couple of routes 5c and 5c+ at the Kadirs in Agac Evleri - the cliff opposite the camping place. Turkish phone card proved good value for calling UK.