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verified ACA 4A III Low flood risk Mournies, Lasithi

The big one on Crete: a 90 m rappel inside an 800 m deep limestone trench above Ierapetra, run almost entirely dry, with the car five minutes from the drop in.

Also published as Agia Apostoli. Ropewiki files it under Lasithi and reverse geocoding confirms the community of Mournies in the Ierapetra municipality, Lasithi, despite the position sitting close to the Heraklion boundary. The 20 km shuttle against a five minute approach and five minute exit means the logistics are all in the car, not the legs. Most recent ropewiki condition report dates to 25 Apr 2014. Red tape field is blank.

Logistics

Distance2.4
Elevation2625 ft vertical relief
Time5-6 hr total, 5 min approach, 5 hr descent, 5 min exit
TechnicalACA grade 4A III (v4a1 IV). Maximum rappel 295 ft, by a wide margin the biggest drop of any Crete canyon in this atlas. Limestone, 3800 m long, 800 m deep, with a required 20.0 km shuttle. The a1 aquatic rating means this is a dry vertical problem rather than a swimming one, so the difficulty is all rope work.
SeasonSpring, and after rains
Flood riskLow by Cretan standards in normal conditions given the a1 aquatic rating, but ropewiki lists after rains as a season, and a 90 m drop is no place to be caught by a storm pulse.
Coordinates35.0484, 25.5224

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