Torok - Ormeny hatar, a messzi hegyek Ormenyorszagban vannak. Az uton mindenhol katonai ellenorzopontok voltak (ezeket nem tudtam lefotozni). -Laci

Ararat Torokorszagbol - nem olyan "hegyes" mint Ormenyorszagbol nezve. -Laci

This is at first camp - around 2200 meters. The top doesn't seem too far away in the pciture but it's still almost 3000 meters higher than where we are! -Laci

so digestion was obviously a problem but luckily we didn't have much trouble with altitude sickness, just a few headaches nothing else. -Laci

View of the base camp from the second camp - at 3,400 meters. -Laci

Our guide - the pic is taken at an angle, of course the mountain wasn't this steep. -Laci

Food was provided for our 5-day climb, and it was really tasty! Kurdish food really resembled Hungarian, to my surprise. -Laci

we started our climb at 2 am...this was taken around 4:30, when the sun started coming up. -Laci

Indeed it was very cold and windy at the top! -Laci

The cook took us down the mountain but he got lost, we couldn't find the minibus waiting fror us, and ended up in this Kurdish "village." -Laci

Here start some photos of Ani, tha ancient Armenian capitol. -Laci

This is Kars - though it's Eastern Anatolia, it almost feels like Europe. 55 km from Armenia and yet such a vast difference! -Laci

Batumi - back in the Caucasus. But cheap! -Laci

Here start some of my friends' photos... -Laci

The sun was VERY strong and there was no shade anywhere! -Laci

Putting my cramp-ons on. My fingers, cold, oh my fingers -Laci

There was a nice little valley before the peak, almost there! -Laci

Me and the guide at the peak -Laci

From left to right: me, Alex, Rud, Kyle, Dominic, Scott -Laci