Brief (inofficial) History of Mountaineering and Climbing Sport in Estonia,
History of "Firn" Included





An organized alpinism emerged in Estonia many years later. There is no high mountains in Estonia, and during half a century before the last great political changes the travelling possibilities were to the large extent restricted to the borders of former SU, so...

That's how it all began:

1956

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Since 1960 several official commemorative dates were used as pleas for organizing expeditions with a goal of ascending one of the peaks over 7000m high in the Pamirs or ascending virgin peaks never climbed before and giving them corresponding names.

1960

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Emblem

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Last update: Aug. 2008
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