Laureates of Steel Angel award 2023: Galya Terentyeva, Olga Lukashenko, Perestroyka Crack route

Laureates of Steel Angel award 2023: Galya Terentyeva, Olga Lukashenko

Slesov peak (4240 m, Karavshin), Perestroyka Crack route 5.12-, 7b or 7а/A2,1000 m, Faivre, Gentet, Givet and Roche)

Olga and Galya became the first all-female-team to climb the Perestoyka Crack and, most notably, to free climb the entire route, being the second female climbers (after Lynn Hill) to ascend the route by free climbing.
Lynn Hill made the first free climbing ascent of Perestroyka Crack with Greg Child in 1995.

Length of the wall part: 1060 m
Length of the stages (UIAA Grades): V – 200 m, Vl – 420 m, VII/VII+ 360 m, Vlll/Vlll+ 80 m.

The route was completed by leader free climbing only, no AID climbing. It took the team 21 working hours with 2 overnight stays on the wall, because it started to rain every day at 15:00, so the team stopped ascending at that time.