https://climbgreece.com/christophoros-agnoglou/ Rock Climbing in Greece, Greece Sport Climbing Guidebook, Greece Climbing News Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://climbgreece.com/christophoros-agnoglou/#comment-1192 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:27:20 +0000 http://climbgreece.com/?p=5085#comment-1192 Thank you very much.

]]> https://climbgreece.com/christophoros-agnoglou/#comment-1191 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:38:24 +0000 http://climbgreece.com/?p=5085#comment-1191 In memory of Christophoros Agnoglou, a young and very promising climber who perished on Mont Blanc in 1987 after climbing Directe Américaine.
“Christophoros, was the climber who introduced grade VIII (7a) climbing in Greece, around 1985. With a lot of training, courage, commitment talent and respect towards nature he pushed the limits and gave us the joy of some special vertical accomplishments.
He started climbing in 1982, in the company of his father Nick and Panagiotis Botinis. His incredibly fast development was promising a climbing career equal with top climbers’ one, in an international level. In 1987 along with the again unforgettable Christos Delibaltas, he climbed “Directe Américaine in les Alpes. It was the most important Greek climb to that date. Unfortunately, a huge stone-fall took them away. It was an unbelievable bad luck for all of us and for the Greek climbing”. (Excerpt from “Rock climbing guide Varasova”, Aris Theodoropoulos 1996)

]]> https://climbgreece.com/christophoros-agnoglou/#comment-1190 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:55:11 +0000 http://climbgreece.com/?p=5085#comment-1190 Does anyone know how this route got its name?

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