Prophitis Andreas: A massive landslide/stone fall last winter

[Anonymous]

Report from Bruno Fara 22/4/2018:

Today we climbed at sector Prophitis Andreas for the first time since our arrival with André.

A massive landslide/stone fall must have taken place this winter…the foot of the cliff is ravaged.

A big part of “Damocles”, and an entire area between “Damocles” and “The Lords” has been affected.

The corridor between “L’Armée du Prophéte” and “The Lord” seems to have channeled the fall.

We inspected the routes “Damocles is Watching You”, “L’Armée du Prophéte” and its extension and “Thavmassia”…(but not “The Lords”). In these 3 routes, only the 2nd bolt of “L’Armée du Prophéte” was crushed … flat!

We restored it (we had a tool of 19) and now it is possible to clip it … but it will have to be changed one day (if I go back I will bring a plaquette and a tool). But we could not clean all the loose/collapsed stones…blocks seem doubtful!

It’s a job to do from the top, in a team, I think, and by controlling the foot of the cliff. For instance the 3 routes are OK … If somebody can inspect “The Lords” and give an advice about the blocks…

[Anonymous]

Elise and I went for an inspection from the bottom on a day off. My thoughts were:

The routes look largely unaffected, but the rock fall has left a large roof above the belay L’Armee du Prophete Ext. I would have reservations about climbing any of the climbs below it until it has been inspected from above and if loose removed.

However its important to point out that the majority of climbs at Prophitis Andreas are unaffected and the rock fall has no effect on walking round the base of the crag to get to climbs further right.

Obviously all the bolts under the rock fall need checking, but as Bruno said it looks as if only the 2nd bolt on L’Armee was affected.

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