Jebel Safsafa · Safsafa West Face · trad

Helenina cesta

5b

Translated as "Helen's road"

Grade
5b
First ascent grade
IV+
Style
trad
Pitches
14
Bolts
0
First ascent
T. Shantavy, M. Novotna, 18 Sep 1981

Topo

Topo: SW Face old Topo
1Helenina cestatrad5b

Translated as "Helen's road"

SW Face old Topo

Map

From the IAC logbook, edited by Mikhail Khomenyuk

  1. Translated as "Helen's road"

Topo: Older Topo of NW Face
2Helenina cestatrad5b

Translated as "Helen's road"

2Arba VaKhetzitrad6a

Start at gully between the skull and Klostersporn. Crawl under chockstone and continue (easy) to Y-splitting into the separate gullies, between then around wall with a crack. Follow crack (hand jamming) then fist jamming (5.8). Continue one easy pitch to slab. Follow slab diagonally up and left (exposed 5.9) then in the crack (identified by its beginning to the right) then straight up. Follow to r…

Route page

Older Topo of NW Face

Map

From israeli wiki: N19:Scala del Cielo; N8:Geissenpeter; N18:Elio’s Route; N5:Black Dyke; N2:The Skull; N7:Com kal; N6:The Mask; N4:Klostersporn; N14:Via del Papa Giovanni Paolo 1; N20:Saturday Night Fever; N11:Warsaw - Tel Aviv Direct; N16:Via del Papa Oct'87 variation; N12:Non-Stop (Warsaw’s variation); N15:Grand Hand Traverse (Papa's Variation); N3:Arba VaKhetzi; N13:Bonch; N1:NE Ridge of Safsafa; N17:Darkness at Noon; N10:Why not?; N9:Geissenpeter (variation)

  1. Translated as "Helen's road"

  2. Start at gully between the skull and Klostersporn. Crawl under chockstone and continue (easy) to Y-splitting into the separate gullies, between then around wall with a crack. Follow crack (hand jamming) then fist jamming (5.8). Continue one easy pitch to slab. Follow slab diagonally up and left (exposed 5.9) then in the crack (identified by its beginning to the right) then straight up. Follow to r…

    Route page

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