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  • Lithuanian climbing team makes Mount Ararat history

    http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/16441/
    Li thuanian climbing team makes Mount Ararat history
    Sep 27, 2006
    >From wire reports

    VILNIUS - A group of Lithuanians, led by world traveller Seda
    Bukauskiene, have become the first foreigners to climb the northern
    route of Turkey's Mount Ararat. Vytautas Bukauskas told the Baltic
    News Service that he and his compatriots were the first non Turks to
    summit the 5,165 meter mountain. The Lithuanian group climbed Mount
    Ararat, the tallest peak in Turkey, in late August.

    The first permits to climb the mountain from its northern side were
    distributed in 2005 to Lithuanian and Spanish groups. Unfortunately,
    neither of the teams managed to reach the top due to unfavorable
    weather conditions.

    The northern side of Ararat has been inaccessible to climbers since
    after World War I, when the Soviet government closed the
    mountain. When the U.S.S.R. collapsed in 1991, the mountain remained
    closed on account of the Kurdish rebellion in Turkey.

    Turkish authorities still refuse permits to climb Mount Ararat from
    the eastern side, as well as its adjacent 3,925-meter peak, `Small
    Ararat,' since possible minefields remain at the base of both routes.
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