Author: Δημήτρης Δερμεντζής

Dimitris Dermentzis is a Rope access technician and an Electrical engineer in industrial and renewable & energy industries, with a career in Greece and abroad. He is actively involved with mountaineering and rock climbing from 2003. He has done plenty of winter ascents on Greek mountains and many sport and traditional climbing style ascents at the most important climbing crags in Greece. He has also climbed routes with rock, ice and mixed climbing at the slopes of French and Italian Alps. He has been a member of the board of directors in the cultural mountaineering club (Fylis) where he is volunteering in charge of firefighting and on the organization of climbing festivals at west Parnitha. Also, he has worked as a climbing instructor at gyms and indoor climbing gyms with his athletes winning metals in Greek championships of competitive climbing. The last few years he lives in Nauplio wherewith the cooperation of the municipality of the city he organizes the maintenance of existing routes and the bolting of new climbing routes in the area with the goal being the development of sport climbing in Greece for the new generations and to create a touristic attraction for the country. For him, rock climbing is a way of life.