Summiting Anica Kuk was the epic finale to an awesome climbing holiday in Paklenica National Park, Croatia, a climbers paradise! Leading up to the day we climbed Anica Kuk we spent 7 days climbing single and multipitch sports climbs elsewhere in the national park, bagging over 25 routes including my first outdoor 6a.
Anica Kuk itself was a 14 hour epic (with 10 of those hours spent on the 320 meter vertical section) which took us up 13 pitches over two routes named "Saleski" and "Brid za veliki cekic". I can't put into words the feeling of arriving at the top of my first "serious" multi-pitch... but as always I hope to let the pictures do the talking...
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| Bridging on the 4th pitch |
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| Looking down from the 4th pitch - approx. 120m up! |
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| Starting an exposed and balancy traverse at about 200m, pitch 6. |
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| 200m up on an exposed traverse. |
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| Climbers following us up on the pitch below |
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| 13 pitches and 10 hours later... but still some scrambling to go till the summit! |
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| Made it! A view we worked hard for! |
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| Anica Kuk in all it's vertical glory! |
