Proevce, Kumanovo, MKD
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Proevce: Rock Climbing Guide Proevce is a small village located on the Eastern edge of the city of Kumanovo in the North East of the Republic of Macedonia. Within the village is a small park with a natural water spring, just above this natural water spring is a small array of rocks called Zivkova Karpa where there are several opportunities for a variety of small and simple, but fun climbing including Trad & Bouldering.
There are 2 main rocks face with food opportunity for climbing: 1. Davidovska Rock – A flat south facing cliff face approximately 8 – 10 metres in total height. The rock has a small cave hole formation going through it and overlooks all of Kumanovo especially from the top where is it fairly simple to set up a top rope system. 2. The West Face – The west face is a highly wooded West facing wall that runs all the way up the steep path leading the top. It starts from the abandoned train tracks at the bottom where there is a small cave in the wall. Here are a few of the climbs and boulders that have already be completed and registered. All climbs and boulders have been registered on UK Climbing and can be found at: http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=17863
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Proevce, Kumanovo, MKD
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Davidovska Rock The climbs registered so far are shown in the photograph below and described in detail after.
Roped Routes
Dan Carter & Jack Pitts Climbing Ивана – 4B
Ивана (Cyrillic) Ivana (Latin): Grade: 4B - Height: 8m Trad grade unknown. Ивана is to the right hand side just next to the small boulder route Ivana's Boulder. It is a simple top rope route that will turns much harder leading as trad placements are hard and some rocks are loose.
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Proevce, Kumanovo, MKD
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Давидиовска (Cyrillic) Davidovska (Latin): Grade: 6A - Height: 8m
Jack Pitts and Dan Carter on Davidovska
Trad grade unknown. Давидовска is dead in the middle of the face just left of a small cave / tunnel in the cliff face. Boulder Routes Ivana's Boulder: Grade: VB – Height 3m Simple 3m Boulder to the left of roped route Ivana. Arête Stairway: Grade: VB – Height 8m A small scramble style boulder up and over a small cave style hole to the top of the roped climbs started from the Eastern edge of the rock face.
The West Face The climbs registered so far are shown in the photograph below and described in detail after.
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Proevce, Kumanovo, MKD Roped Routes An Interesting Journey: Grade: 4A – Height: 10m
[ROCK CLIMBING GUIDE] Milan Serafimovski on An Interesting Journey
An Interesting Journey
Cut out from the woody area growing from the bottom tear of the West Face near the top of the steep path to the top of the hill and fun simple route next to a cave half way up the wall. Small overhang at very top. A lengthy bit of static rope is recommended for setting up top rope using the cave pillar at the top.
Boulder Routes Warm Up: Grade: VB – Height: 2.5m To the left of Mio on the beginning small platform that starts the top tier of The West Face. Mio: Grade: VB – Height: 2.5m Round the left hand side of the boulder arête Duca. Duca: Grade: VB – Height: 5m Simple little Arête climb in the middle of the West facing rock face. Vesta: Grade: VB – Height 3m Simple teaser boulder middle of second platform of west rock face. Zena: Grade: VB – Height 3m Simple boulder above Ivana's Boulder on the south edge of the west facing rock face.
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Proevce, Kumanovo, MKD
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Brought to you by: Globallove Youth Trust (UK) & Center for Intercultural Dialogue (MK) With support from the Youth in Action Programme
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