Yes there is climbing in Egypt and no it is not on the pyramids. 2 hours up from the tropical water of the red sea and the hippy hangout of Dahab are great granite walls hundreds of meters high.
I need a team of 20 climbers to join me in the high mountains of The Sinai Desert this November for 2 weeks. The purpose of this trip is to repeat all the existing routes in the area so as to tidy up a load of very messy route descriptions. These route descriptions will then be included in the first climbing guidebook to the area that is due to be published in September 2014.
There are 108 routes that need to be re climbed. We also have to try and find a couple of routes climbed by E. Comici 4 years after his first ascent of The North Face of Cima Grande. I believe that these are still waiting for second ascents 76 years after the first ascents.
The routes are:
All on granite rock of varying quality.
Vary in length from 120m to 400m
Vary in grade from UIAA III to UIAA VIII.
They are all within a short walk from the village.
The climbers I am looking for are those who are happy to climb in areas without a guidebook. Hopefully climbing E4, but also experienced climbers that know the difference between a Diff and a VDiff.
The link below will direct you to a PDF that shows images of the rock, dates, estimated costs etc.
http://expeditionconsultancy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The-Sinai-De...
Please email me if you have any questions regarding this trip.
Many thanks
Dave Lucas
PS UK Climbing have asked me to move this from the standard forum to Premier as their is a link to my business website. I am not running this trip to make profit, but to just get climbers out to help me with a massive task.