Rock climbing at Meteora

The rock climbing at Meteora consists of huge pinnacles and monasteries (similar to Montserrat in Spain), with some of these monasteries actually located on top of the pinnacles. The routes here are a mixture between bolted and traditional (placing own protection), and vary between single pitch and multi-pitch routes up to 285m long.

There is a considerable variation in the amount of fixed gear (bolts and some pegs) used on routes and, historically the ethic was to use as little as possible. Therefore you can climb a well-bolted single pitch route, and then a more committing multi-pitch trad route, where you will need to place nuts and friends along with the occasional bolt or peg. The type of rock is mainly conglomerate along with some limestone and granite. The majority of routes are on slaby or vertical rock with many routes in the F5a to F6c+ grade range, though harder quality routes are also available.

The Meteora best of the Classics Guidebook describes 206 of the best multi-pitch routes, offering both traditional and modern routes and is available to buy from our shop.

Close to Meteora are the crags of Theopetra, Pyli and Mouzaki. These crags offer well-bolted sport climbing on good quality limestone rock. The climbing is often steep including routes with tufas on clean rock.

The sport climbing routes at Meteora and Theopetra are described in the Meteora Sport Climbing Guidebook, which is available to buy from our shop.

At Rizoma there is a good bouldering area on sandstone rock. This area is reasonably well developed with approximately 100 problems, with most of the problems marked with numbers or arrows. There is a good range of grades here (Fb 2a to 7b+), though the more popular problems are in the Fb 5a to 6c+ range. A crash mat is advisable though most of the boulders are not that high, which makes the bouldering very enjoyable.