Vías como deportiva en Etiopía

The best for its grade and the most climbed route at AG. Hospitable, playful and friendly, like most habeshas.

Get your friends climbing on this easy stroll up a small slabby pillar. Already has everyone hissing “eshi eshi”. Can be extended with a second pitch, then belay at the second anchor.

Popular and safe climb that gets steep before the chains. Big holds.

Follow the line of bolts to under the overhang.

A must-do. Simply incredible line with aesthetic and athletic! This is AG’s most iconic line and wasn’t bolted until the end of 2015. Use 70m rope, but can be done on 60m if belayer stands on the first ledge. Anbessa is lion: hear the roar.

Diamond in the rough basalt. Light problems and technical moves. Go straight over the crux for the 10c or stray right to make it less strenuous.

Beginner/intermediate climbing on quality and varied basalt.

Start in the corner, below the small roof, clip the bolt and traverse right under the roof, then step over it. Straight up to the first anchors. Possibility to continue with one hard move (6c) and reach the top.

Use your balance to get through the start and pull jugs over the roof and up onto a large flake to the anchor. Classic 5.11 at AG and the easiest climb on Giorgis wall.

Get up Easy Eshi first pitch, but belay at the second anchor on a nice ledge (past some grass) Straight up to the top of the wall.

The Bushy Slabs. Short climb for beginners: ‘No Problem’. Can be done on bolts or gear.

AG’s one-move wonder! Go up some intermediate terrain and throw a couple of bigger moves to get over a bulge. Sail up the rest of the pillar to the anchor. Named after the famous veggie market in Addis for all the plants pulled off the wall.

First crux at the top of the dihedral, long reach on small holds, and an unexpected second crux below the chains. The Liger Army team put this satisfying line in under the chant “Liger Army Never Dies!”

AG’s first route was named for the stalks of grain trampled to get to the base of the wall.

1. well protected sport climbing up a steep start, then moves right onto a pillar of grippy basalt.

2. step off the pillar, which stands separated from the wall, back to the wall and then up a slab to the top. Carry some gear for P2 if your not into longish, empty spaces. P2’s crux has bolts

PG was the first line bolted on this wall in honor of my first baby, a Chile-Gringo mix. Bouldery start on this one. The best option to access Sheba and Austerity Measures.

‘My Brother’ in Amharic, turned out to be Poroto Gringo’s lil sister. Shares same anchor. Lots of lichen.

Athletic 7a to the crossing with "great leap", then 6c. Superb.

Hardest line on the wall goes into and around the large roof on the upper part. Get acrobatic for the Queen of Sheba. Niels made this one too.

3 hard moves between the first two bolts lead to an easier ending.

The best climb of its grade at AG. This line starts at the mid-way point and goes to the crag’s highest point along the edge of a long arete. Bolts were donated by a group of Spanish dancers!

Some athletic moves, then the crux where it's better to be able to raise your foot high.

Bavarian Bernde’s masterpiece. Bouldery start, powerful first crux and a techy, small crimper top. The man had to quit smoking just to redpoint this one.

cool route with nice moves

7a to a rest before the overhang. Still to open after the break of the best hold of the crux, Penelope will probably have to wait a long time... Make sure you tie a knot at the end of the rope. 60 meters rope just reaches the ground.

Sustained 5.11 climbing until the crux two-thirds of the way up. Get a long rest before attacking the dark basalt and fingery crux of the blue donkey. You’ll likely scream ‘waraj’ to get off this one.

technical and resistant

Ethiopia’s hardest sport climb has a long sustained crux with moves that most of us only see in the movies. Says Elad Omer, Addis Ababa resident pro climber: “you must be in Zohan shape” to mess with the Zohan.

Some difficult moves in the corner lead to a rest before a superb ending. Make sure you tie a knot at the end of the rope. 60 meters rope just reaches the ground.

Start on a 6b wall/slab, then possibility of belay before an 6c athletic section.

Elad’s first contribution to the wall starts just below the graffiti. Before setting off, try asking yourself if you’d rather climb a Girogis or drink a Giorgis.

The easiest 5.11 at AG with smooth climbing and great holds. Worth the repeat, over and over. Amharic for “heroes don’t die”.

A bouldering start, then a rest before the crux that starts with a flat undercling pinch.

Nice crux at the 2nd bolt, then sustained 7a to the belay.

A continuous climbing with sidepulls.

No hard crux, but a very sustained section. Caution, a 60 meters rope is just enough.

First route opened in the cliff, under the rain. A rest with a good jam after the crux.

Three separate cruxes of easier sections

Start as for Source then follow the bolts left under the overhang.

slightly overhanging wall, perfect rock, nice moves

Easiest route of the sector. Two starts possible, same difficulty.