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(Sözcü Newspaper, 29 June 2021)
Well, there is an ice cap at the summit.
Official climbs have begun again on Ağrı Dağı (Mt. Ararat of
Noah's Ark fame) after a six-year break and on 25 June two bears,
one of them a white albino, confronted Ukrainian climbers. The
climbers' screams scared the bears away. Tour guide Saffet Akkuş
declared that "in 16 years of guiding on Ağrı Dağı this is the first time
I've seen a bear."
Because of military operations on Ağrı Dağı in August and September
2015, the Ağrı governorship declared it a "special security region" and
closed it to mountain-climbers. Permission for climbs began to be
reissued in February 2021, prompting domestic and foreign climbers
to return to the mountain.
On 25 June, a 7-person group of Ukrainian climbers, two of them women,
came to Ağrı's Doğubayazıt district and began a climb guided by Saffet
Akkuş. The group of climbers reached a camp at 3,200 meters on the
first day and spent the night there. The next day, at the 3,800-meter
altitude, the climbers encountered two bears, one brown, which fled,
and one a white albino that wanted to attack the group.
"Hey! What about us??!!"
The moments were captured on the cellphone of one of the climbers,
who fled left and right, screaming in terror. At the last minute, though,
the albino bear ran up towards the summit and disappeared.
Guide Mustafa Tekin, a 23-year veteran who has made 158 climbs of
Ağrı Dağı, said that "the local people always said that there was a white
bear on the mountain but no one believed it. Some climbers said the
same thing but it couldn't be proven. We were perplexed by the claim
and wondered what a polar bear would be doing here. But the Ukrainian
climbers got it on film. Now everyone knows there is, in fact, a white
bear on Ağrı Dağı so 'proceed with caution' is the watchword henceforth.
In all my climbs I've never encountered a bear and I hope I never do."
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