Apenanti Alogopetra, (Greek for “Opposite Alogopetra”) is located on the opposite side of the Alogopetra wall outside the village of Fyli. The location is beautiful, almost hidden from civilization giving the place an aura of isolation.
The crag has three sectors, the most impressive of which being the 30 meter cave which hosts only a few hard lines at the moment. More popular (and tangible), is the middle super-compact overhanging wall with 14 lines.
Climbing is uniformly steep on embedded stalactites and pockets. Bolting is dense (with a few exceptions in the big cave) and at the moment of writing, almost free of visible wear.
Apenanti Alogopetra was visible to the climbers scaling the main Alogopetra routes for years, but their lack of height and their inaccessibility led most people to disregard them as more appropriate for goat dens than for climbing.
This was to change in 1999 when D. Tsitsikas and P. Koumoutsakos, searching for a new lines, trailed their way to the rocks aiming for the big cave, only to be astonished by the superb quality of a small overhanging face. Soon after, they established the first routes and cleared a path from Moni Kyprianou bringing the place out of obscurity.
In the following years some of the strongest Athenian climbers visited the area, attracted by the large cave. Several routes were established from 2002 onwards by K. Roussos and others.
