-36°, we are on the top.

30 on the shoulders, 30 in front of you

Dwelling in such conditions?

That to climb here?
And build every day this?

Don't ascent Yanchenko top becouse of weather?

and to receive  as a reward this..

...or this.

or may be all crown of Manaraga

Sergey Zhyravlev is a climber and wrighter

On a top of Maslennikov's peak

Standart way to Sablya top - 5B

It is possible to summit Sablya in summer too
but in winter or summer...

you need work with rope and hardware 

The east wall of Victory's top unclimbed yet - 5B.

North-east wall of South Kolokolnya - unclimbed yeat.

The Central Kolokolnya from north - unclimbed yet.

It happened in July.

Kiting is a future of travelling in Ural mountains

More and more tourists travelling by  snowmobile

   SPORTIVE TOURISM

There is  limited list of tourism kinds here. Amateurs of kiting, mountain skiing, mountain bike and other fashionable amusement very rare come to me. It is far from centres with all necessary equipment. Skiing, trekking, ascents and rafting are traditional list of tourism kinds. But in all this kinds you can improve yourself. 

    SKIING TOURISM:

I feel max respekt to this kind of tourism. It is not carelessly. The most of people deproved by ideas of light and beuatiful time-spending. There isn't necessaty in mountain skiing to prepair yourself running 30-40 km in a day in work-out period, you haven't think about quality of equipment and think in detail about construction of warmed boots or tent's exit. You needn't test how work your new stove or to get ready your backpack to 40-50 kg of luggage. You needn't exert about quality of clothes, you simple go to ski and  wind ventilate through and through your fashionable membran jacket. And in this case you'll go in nearest bar to just help yourself in company of fanats of active rest. Well, in skiing route you can't hide yourself or walk out. You've got to be ready to this fact: to break the ski-trail with depth above your knee and if you hold up velocity 0,5-1 km in hour during all day - this is action deserving a man; to go against strong wind which can lie you with backpack; strong frosts above -50°C,  when steam from your mouth fall down with easy noise. Certainly you've got to be ready to many-kilometers and  lasting many days going on ski. I think it is normal for 30-years person to go 20 km in 1 day with 20 kg backpack and - 20 °C frost. I not happen to say about frost. Namely frost takes off your forces, disturbs you to have a rest and and degidrates your organism. Being on frost breads such fenomen as "coldy fatigue". As for going 20 km every day during 2 weeks - it is not too much. Indeed for trained participant it is normal to do "3 times 30" ( 30 kg, 30 km, -30°C). Another moment distinguish skiing tourism from other kinds - its duration. The middle 3 rated route  lasts 12-15 days. 5 rated route lasts 18-20 days. 6 rated route may be 1 month or more. Participants must to have sure equipment and provision for all this period and bring this all on their shoulders. Only some persons are ready to this investigations, after it you lose 10 kg of weight (if you had this superfluous weight). For example, Elbrus ascent, the hihest top of  Europa, lasts 8-12 houres. Not always succeed to get thin. And some professional guides on Elbrus succed to get better because  they not always eat so regular in a city. I see, there are ascents last any days. But in this case you bring provision and equipment under a week and try to carry smaller using ratrack, helicopter and other mules.

We haven't mules here. When you are start skiing route you know only rare  tracks of wolverines or reindeer or wolfs will wait you. And mountains will wait you too and sun and much snow. Sometimes meeting with rare skiing group will wait you, and this group become closeness than full relatives. And looking in their sunburnt, winded and frosted phizes you think "how fall their share" and understand that you look in your own reflection.

And else in the route you feel sad always in the last day. Very sensible you feel in a city that you don't belong to a city indeed, you could rend chains of urban civilization. You are free forever.  
 
   CLIMBING ON URAL:

Not many time ago this phraze could cause sceptik smirk. It was mention that Ural  an old mountains and there aren't any serios ascents here. This situation changed when appeared PERSONALITY: Sergei Zhuravlev. He didn't aspire to collect callings and signs and thought that substance is more important than cover. He named himeself in his guidebook (Climbing route's discribing of nature sport polygon "Manaraga" and "Subpolar Ural")  very simple: wrighter and climber. Though he made more than 200 ascents in distinct region: Kaukaz, Tyan'-Shan', Cryum, some of this routes were 5 rated first ascents. He wanted to promote Subpolar Ural to traditional regions for climbing, so he made huge volume of work and created above 20 climbing routes from 1 to 5B rated and he is preparing 30 routes else. It will be possible to prepare master of sports in climbing in Subpolar Ural. According to Sergei's ask I made 2 winter ascents of Erkusey (3A) and Staryha (3B). I think the main Sergei's riching was uncrown muths. One of this myth is about super difficult of Manaraga traverse. Many climbers thought 5B, Sergei demonstrated that Manaraga traverse really has 3B rated. He discovered many climbing routes and made first ascents, such as Komsomol peak 1729m (4A rated), the east wall of Victory's top 1528 m 5A rated, the north walls of Kolokolnya's massif above 5A, all routes are rocky.

  Conditions of ascents are differ from Kaukaz for example. In winter all ascents are more difiicult becouse of short sunday, low temperatures and strong winds. In summer climbers can use all sunday above 20-22 houres. But flies didn't give you to preserve calmness or simple equilibrium.
   This is some citations from his guidebook:

TABLE OF CLIMBING ROUTES OF 

NATURE SPORT POLYGON "MANARAGA"

the mountain "horseshoe" of Reindeer's creek

The mountain massif Manaraga

The mountain "horseshoe" of Reindeer Breeders Plateau

The mountain massif of Naroda top

THE NATURE SPORT POLYGON (NSP) "MANARAGA"

The NSP "Manaraga" is situated on the east of Pechora' and Inta' region of Komi Republik on the highest part of Ural mountain. This is Manaraga river valley with all her tributaries from upperheads to junction - the confluence of Manaraga, Lomes'-vozh and Kosyu-vozh creeks breeding river Kosyu.

The NSP unions some mountain knots from left and right banks. This guidebook offers grading routes by participants of climbing expedition of Komi Republik Climbing Federation in mountain massif Manaraga (National Park territory), in mountain "horseshoe" of Reindeer Herder's Plateau and mountain "horseshoe" of Reindeer's creek (the National Park territory).

Nowadays the routes of NSP "Manaraga" can to plan and deceive climbing sport-educational camp from participants of different qualification from novices to master of sport, also all training and educational ascents and sport routes for tourists.

NATURE LABORATORIES
 For climbing training it is necessary deceive training on nature laboratories. It situated on NSP "Manaraga":

The rock on the right bank of Kosyu river low than "Manaraga" shelter - "Individual climbing" (for participants of beginning level -1,2);

The rocks on Reindeer Herder's Plateau - "Individual climbing", "Climbing in roped party", " Rescue organization on mountain terrain" (the middle level - 1,2);

The big boulders scree on slopes of the mountain Bear's Paw - Training "moving on talus and scree" and "Moving in roped party" - beginning level 1,2;

The rock near foot of south slope of Victory's mountain - "Individual climbing" (the beginning level - 1,2, middle level - 1,2), "Rescue organization" (middle level -1,2);

The south rigde of Victory's top - "Moving in roped party" (middle level -1,2);

Snowfields of mountain "horseshoe" of Reinder Herder's Plateau - "Moving on snowy terrain" ( beginning level 1,2, middle level -1,2);

The ice slopes of Komsomol peak 1729m and Sverdlov's peak 1711m - "Moving on ice terrain, belaying and self-belaying" (beginning level -1,2, middle level -1,2;

It is possible to safety organize training "River crossing" for participants of beginning level 1,2 on any part of NSP "Manaraga".

TREKKING, GOING ON FOOT

The majority of tourist groups began to acquainted with Ural from trekking. This is the best variant to become acquainted with mountains without efforts about quality  of equipment or your own phizical care. The max difficults for trekkers are - not long last rains (they are usual for the second part of Augest) and heat in the middle of July. Sometimes may be snow in the middle of July, but it will melt through 2-3 days. Flies and migdes on mountains routes won't disturbe you practical because often winds and morning frosts, which make the quantity of flies minimum. I used 100 ml of Autan 3 years. Really threat to health may be in case if all factors will union: you set up camp in treeless zone, strong wind with rain began and this wind broke poles of your tent and after cool down snow fell. The rivers and creeks became overcrowded and your group couldn't go to forest zone and make fire to dry. As a result your group spend time not for moving along route but for dwelling, repairing equipment, drying or may be treating. Of course you can prevent this situation, you need know usual legitimate of local weather changes and take into account direction of wind and set up a tent in terrain defence or go to safety zone (forest zone promptly). So your leader must have experience of leading in our places. There were many  ambition groups which couldn't make route because of their self-confident. Ural is not the biggest mountains but you will have big problem here too. I saw dead reindeer because of hypothermia and tourists with frosted checks in July-Augest. Mistrust to mountains, weather and your own forces - is the main factor to succesfull 5 rated route or simply bundle of Naroda-Manaraga.

 RAFTING

Indeed the Ural is the oldest mountains. You can see this fact brightly in our rivers character. It have broad smoothed valleies very often with lakes and the main impediments are currents and some rapids. I can named by word "rapid" only some places on Kosyu river: on junction of Pyvsyan-shor creek, the Cedar rapid, on Kozhim river - the rapid low Selem-U junction. For beginning kayakers it will be interesting to go along Balban-U river from Sana-vozh logde, there is a good part in upperhead of Kosyu river from Reindeer's creek to Puvsyan-shor junction - this part looks like series of 1 m water-falls, especially it is interesting in big water in June. The river Vangur (tributary of Kosyu river) is continuous rapid. The valleies of Lemva tributaries smoothed by glacier and scattered by boulders. But if you are beginning kayaker and have swelled canoe for 2 person or small sport katamaran for 2 person you will have positive emotions during rafting on upperhead of Kozhim river from Saran-seda-U creek junction to place "Crossing" and on Kosyu river from "Manaraga" logde to Zubkalanyel' creek and down Vangur river.

   PERSPECTIVE DIRECTIONS

The development of new kinds of tourism has began. Many routes made by tourists-enthusiasts with big pains and lasting many times I can term like sportive tourism. The Polar Ural with its meridional oriented rigdes and treless slopes offers boundless posibilities for travelling by snowmobiles or for kiters. They can do 100-200km in 1 day, it is prerogative of our region and distinction from other parts of European Russia. In our region freeride or heli-ski aren't developed. But there are huge quantity of slopes useful for skiing to June. 

How to connect with me: inpolar@narod.ru  +79630231360.