Crete // Gingilos "number 8" ridge - request for any info

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 Robert_H 23 Apr 2024

Hi All,

I am on a weeks trip to Crete this June and have my eye on Νούμερο 8 (Number 8) (AD-) on  Gigilos.

I am trying to find any information on the route, or a topo.

TheCrag has some photos, and the only topo available on the internet,  https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/greece/area/1755851739

However, this, and the UKC route page, link back to the climb in crete website: https://www.climbincrete.com/en/Climbing/Gigilos/Number_8, which is somewhat vague on information.

Is there anyone who has seen / done the route and can help with a better description, photos or even better a gpx route??

Thanks in advance  

 Derek Furze 24 Apr 2024
In reply to Robert_H:

Have you tried to PM Derek Ryden?  He has logged four of the five ascents on UKC so seems pretty familiar with the route.  A bonus is that he is clearly keen on it!

 Patrick Surguy 24 Apr 2024
In reply to Robert_H:

Hey Robert, I was searching for the same info a while ago, and emailed Derek Ryden, who said this:

Hi Patrick,

I do have a copy of the topo somewhere, but I don't have access to it right now. You wouldn't need a detailed topo, more a line showing which rock sections to aim at. For now, I suggest you email my friend Sifis Pendrakis sifispen@yahoo.gr who I climbed it with every time, and who put up a lot of the routes hereabouts. I've copied him into this email. At the very least he should be able to photograph the relevant page of the guidebook and send it to you. You don't say when you're going. If it's not just yet, I might manage to find some more details before you go.

The route is not hard - probably about British Severe, and the line is pretty flexible - generally following the most interesting climbing up the better quality rock, on the easier part of the mountain, but many alternatives are possible. However, it is quite long, and if you climb it in pitches it will take some time.

Let me know how you get on.

Good Luck,

Derek

I never did end up getting on it - went and tried to rope solo something and had an epic - hope you manage to get on it, and report back!

OP Robert_H 30 Apr 2024
In reply to Patrick Surguy:

"photograph the relevant page of the guidebook"

I can't find this guidebook anywhere
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/books/crete_-_climbing_in_chania-1859


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