Author Archives: Katie

Snake Valley is one of the newest Kalymnos crags (autumn 2023). Located near sectors Symplegades and Ourania Cave, in the direction of Kamari village, it is a very […]

Ourania is a massive cave near the village of Kamari. It is included in the 2019 Kalymnos guidebook as a sub-sector of Symplegades (p. 374). At the time, […]

Urs Odermatt and Peter Keller—Swiss mountain guides, good friends of Kalymnos, and equippers extraordinaire—are back with a new sector: Griffig. The new sector was developed in spring 2022; […]

Pezonda is an extensive new sector located midway along the Arginonta-Vathy road, in one of the wildest and remotest parts of the island. It takes its name from […]

Little Eden is a new, dreamy crag on the east coast of Kalymnos, near Rina/Vathy. It is a short photogenic cliff that sits just above a quiet beach […]

Sector Heroes is the latest addition to Kalymnos climbing. It is a small and short crag (by Kalymnos standards), with routes up to 20-25m long. However, most routes […]

Our 2019 order of bolts and anchors for the cliffs of Kalymnos has arrived. These are bolts that we at Climb Kalymnos buy once a year, on average, […]

“It’s funny to say, but it [the Kalymnos guidebook] may seriously be the best guidebook in the world. Thank you for all the hard work in new routing […]

Just two years after it was equipped, Arginonta Valley is already one of the most popular crags on Kalymnos (shade all day & well-bolted, easy to mid-grade routes). […]

  [Originally posted on July 07, 2011] Do you feel safe lowering off a half-worn carabiner? No, neither do we. On Kalymnos, despite the best efforts to keep […]

  Another year, another festival! The dates this year are 7-9 October, and the event is organized by the Municipality of Kalymnos. The phenomenal climbers Angy Eiter, Roger […]

  Arginonta Valley and Black Buddha are two newly-developed sectors across the road from the popular red cliff of Arginonta. Both new sectors were developed as part of […]

  After a winter that never was, spring has sprung and Kalymnos is at its very best. Bright, fresh, and smelling “like an herb garden”, it is gradually […]

  In 2014, when Gordon Jenkin and Francis Haden bolted the multi-pitch Eterna on the South Face of Telendos, we wrote: “It took the equippers six unglamorous days […]

  The rebolting project we wrote about a few months ago started in Kalymnos earlier this week. The project was delayed for a few months as the economy […]

[UPDATE: The new guidebook is now available at many points of sale in Masouri, Kalymnos.] The all-new Kalymnos guidebook is on its way to the printers at last! […]

Hi everyone! How is summer treating you? We have been inactive for a while, but we are back today with a guest post written by two climbers who […]

  Multipitch routes Wings for Life (2008) and Wild Country (2010) are the most popular long routes on Kalymnos/Telendos, with fantastic, moderately easy, well-protected climbing. The bolts, however […]

  After the coldest, rainiest, windiest winter in recent memory, the weather in Kalymnos has done an about-face and now the sun shines bright and (too) warm. The […]

    The 3rd and final “edition” of the North Face Kalymnos festival is over, and Kalymnos is back to its usual October self: perfect weather, lots of […]

An accident at View of Chapel St Photis last week (involving a very large loose block) once again emphasizes the vital importance of proper route equipping. To a […]