How many hours and kilometers are there between the first camp and the second camp? When moving from the first camp to the second camp, it takes about 2.5 or 3 hours of walking, about 4 kilometers.
When we go camping, we give all our equipment to the horses and move towards the second camp with the local guide. When we arrive at the camp, all services are ready. Our special and professional chef prepares everything. Hot water and tea are available 24 hours a day. We always prepare 4 types of meals during pregnancy and the meals are usually pilaf. meat pasta soup potatoes stuffed eggs lentils eggplant lamb kebab hair breads.
Our meals generally include kebab, chicken, lamb and beef.
After having dinner, our professional local guide shows us how to tie icebreaker scarves and after teaching kiranpo to everyone, the group goes to bed.
On the fifth day, we stay at 1 o’clock in the morning and after having breakfast, everyone prepares all their materials and we set off at 2 o’clock. After a walk of about 6 hours, we reach the summit at 8 or 9 o’clock in the morning. After staying at the summit for about 20 minutes or half an hour, we go down again, about 3 o’clock on the way down. We go down in 4 hours. After eating something at the second camp, we rest for an hour and gather all our equipment, give it to the horses and go down to the first camp. We go down to the first camp in about two hours.
And on the same day, we stay in the first camp and we can take a bath with hot water in the evening.
So, how many cubic meters of snow are there on Ararat summit?
According to the research of some scientists, there are approximately 50 million cubic meters of snow in August in summer, and the snow that melts frequently every year is frozen again at the beginning of September due to the cold.
However, there are still traces of it due to the mountain eruption in Ararat in 1840.