Mount Ararat, described by Marco Polo as “never climbable”, hosted thousands of climbers in the 1980s and was closed to climbing in 1990 due to terrorism incidents. Eight years later, Mount Ararat was reopened to climbing. Thousands of people were moving to Ararat, enchanted by the magic at the summit of Mount Ararat. Ranked 48th on the list of the world’s fifty best-known mountains, Mount Ararat was waiting for new guests to tell its legends. Among these new guests was Emma, a German mountaineer. An extraordinary love, fading lives, hours of mystery... After reading Emma’s experiences on Mount Ararat, the love of Armenian moun-taineers for it, and the exciting summit climb of “Professional Mountaineers”, this novel “Mount Ararat 5137”, the best story about mountaineering in recent times, will make you want to travel to Mount Ararat. Ersan Başar, President of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation, and Ali Nasuh Mahruki, a top name in mountaineering, read and appreciated this page-turning novel, which you will read and finish in one go.
