The climb to the Great Ararat is difficult for those who have not been to those heights, and several of them were in the thirteen-member expedition that, under the leadership of an experienced alpinist from Javork, Nikšić - Dragutin Šlagij Vujović, flew the Montenegrin flag on the highest peak of Turkey on August 18.
Nevertheless, they all successfully climbed to the top and arrived in Montenegro on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
In the team that spent six days on the mountain where, according to tradition, Noah's Ark ran aground after the flood, there were ten members of the Javorak Mountaineering and Ski Association and three "guests", friends of the Nikšić club.
Vujović told "Vijesti" that Ararat is demanding for those who have never stepped on those mountain heights, and the fact that they climb 1.000 meters above sea level every day is an additional effort.
However, this was not an insurmountable obstacle for the team that prepared every weekend on one of the Montenegrin peaks.
"Our club invests a lot in the youth because we want to teach them what our predecessors taught us. And this time there were minors in the team - Vuk Lazović and Ilija Mijušković. This is why I am particularly proud, because our youth is the future of the club. The ascent lasted six days, at the start we had a little confusion with things that didn't arrive when we did, we already waited for them for two days, but everything ended well. Every day we climbed about 1.000 meters above sea level, from camp to camp. We stayed there to acclimatize and continued the next day," Vujović said.
He explained that the ascent starts from about 2.200 meters above sea level, from where you walk to camp C1, which is located at about 3.400 meters above sea level.
"We stayed in that camp, slept, and the next day acclimatized to camp C2 at 4.200 meters above sea level, and then descended to C1. The next day, we left the first camp at 4.200 meters, rested until one hour after midnight, and at exactly 1.30:6.30 a.m. we started the final ascent, which took us five hours. At 5.137:XNUMX a.m., local time, thirteen of us stood on the Great Ararat (XNUMX masl). The most important thing is that our health and time served us, because the team included very experienced mountaineers, as well as those with less experience. Also, we had both young and old climbers," Vujović said.
The Montenegrin and club flags on that top were developed by the people of Javor - Vujović, Lazović, Mijušković, Ivan Kilibarda, Matija Vujović, Bogdan Mijušković, Nebojša Raja Abramović, Aleksandra Tomković, Miloš Vujović and Gavrilo Knežević, then Miodrag Karadžić from the Society of Young Environmentalists, Dušan Bošković from PK Visokogorci and Tamara Radojičić.
Vujović, who led the thirteen-member team, is one of the most experienced Montenegrin mountaineers and alpinists, who has numerous world peaks inscribed in his booklet, including three of the seven highest in the world - Mount Everest, Aconcagua and Elbrus.
Ararat, to which he took his club friends this time, is a snow-covered mountain located in the northeast of Turkey, not far from the borders with Iran and Armenia. Otherwise, it is a dormant volcanic cup and is very attractive for hiking.
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