The Hundred-Year Climb of Mount Olympus

Olympos, the highest mountain in Greece and the second highest in altitude in the Balkan peninsula, consists of a relatively small, massive, inseparable volume, almost circular, pretty rocky, with sharp peaks, extensive slopes and crests as well as large, abrupt slopes, carved by deep ravines. The first man to climb the peak of Mount Olympos was a Greek, Christos Kakkalos, on 2 August, 1913. This ...

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