North Macedonia 🇲🇰 has a beautiful and unusual via ferrata: Via Ferrata Kicinicki Kamen. Before you climb it, you first descend it — and that makes the route more intriguing, more memorable, and much more impressive than a simple B/C climb might sound on paper.
In this episode, I start from the top, descend the via ferrata with the 360 camera running, and talk through the real experience: the big vertical drop, the “no bicycles” sign, the anchor transitions, the fall factor risk, and the mental pressure of always looking down. The route is not technically hard, but the descent gives it character, curiosity, and a serious mind game.
Once at the start, the verdict is positive: the via ferrata is beautiful, the rungs are easy, the cable is amazing, the setup feels brand new, and the whole route gives North Macedonia a strong place in the Balkans Via Ferrata Run. Fear is part of the story, but the place and the route deserve real attention.
Chapters:
00:00:00 – North Macedonia’s descent-first Via Ferrata
00:00:27 – An amazing route with a curious start
00:00:52 – The “no bicycles” sign
00:01:06 – Happy to be here in North Macedonia
00:01:21 – First full Via Ferrata descent
00:03:02 – Camera gear on the descent
00:03:38 – Fall factor and anchor transitions
00:04:48 – How to descend step by step
00:05:19 – Looking down the route
00:06:06 – A long descent and a strong mind
00:07:50 – Concentration, exposure and overhang
00:08:20 – Reaching the start after descending
00:08:48 – Beautiful, easy and impressive
00:09:16 – Amazing cable, easy rungs and hot sun
00:09:45 – Now the climb back begins
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3 Comments
That sign with the bicycle is really an old joke… On the Tabaretta via ferrata on the Ortler—one of the most difficult via ferratas in northern Italy—there’s a sign showing an old lady and her little dog that’s been crossed out… Descending via ferratas is great training, and here in Austria, I do it regularly myself; we often tackle via ferratas even in the dark of night with headlamps, which is just as good for training concentration.
Also nice to see that you start doing interesting via ferratas again!💪greetings from vienna!
now it' s Kosovo next i assume and then magic Bosnian via feratas👌🍺
I guess it's a joke sign, in Switzerland there are a few taps fitted to blank rock walls that can get very hot in the sun – great joke 😜
BTW is that a bidirectional route?