Kackar Mountains Climbs

Kackar Mountains Climbs:

A view from the Kackar Mountains

Two Ararat has carefully planned climbing and trekking organizations in Kaçkars. Kaçkar Mountains are a mountain range, a line of North Anatolian Mountains rising above the East region of the Black Sea

Generally, Kaçkar Mountains are divided into three areas. Kavrun Mountains with the highest summit of 3,937 meters in the center, Altıparmak Mountains with the highest summit of 3,480 meters to the east, and Verçenik Mountains with the highest summit of 3,710 meters to the west. In addition to all of this, continuing from the northeastern line, Bulut Mountain with an altitude of 3,380 meters, also known as Kaçkar with a smaller mountain belt, completes the area geographically. Kaçkar name derives itself from an epistemological change of the Armenian word “Haçkar” (Խաչքար) (meaning cross rock) and is named after the cross-shaped section of these four mountain ranges. Its geographic diversity is the main reason for its touristic appeal. In fact in 1994, the area has been designated by W.W.A. as a world heritage area. Kaçkars are a tectonic mountain mass consisting of basaltic, granitic, syenitic, and andesitic and gronodritic rocks. While the mountain slopes looking towards the Black Sea are covered with babbling brooks and mountain roses with a rainy and warm atmosphere, the southern slopes are drier and covered with steppes and sunny pastures. Kaçkar Mountains are almost like a garden of color and flowers with its floral fauna containing 2,100 kinds of different plants. And there are around 100 glacial lakes, it’s a stunning dream of paradise. In Kaçkars where an actual glacier formation is rarely seen, moraines, glacier lakes, and valley are found. Along with a rare forest area comprised entirely of buxus trees, this region has an exotic atmosphere with fir, spruce, yellow pine trees and gorses.