Participants in the Climb for Palestine getting ready to walk 40 kilometers to the top of Mount Ararat in Turkey. (Photo courtesy of C4P) 

BAYAZID, TURKEY, July 21, 2018 (WAFA) - A group of Palestinian adventurers started on Saturday a four-day climb toward the top of Mount Ararat in Turkey, according to the trip organizers.

The participants in the “Climb for Palestine” group arrived on Friday in the town of Dojo Bayazid in northeastern Turkey in preparation to start their mountain climbing toward the top of Mount Ararat, about 5,136 meters above sea level.

"The group is ready to take on this new adventure,” said the group coordinator Samer al Azem. “We have four days to walk up to the top of the mountain. We will walk about 40 kilometers in very rugged terrain to the top of the snow-covered mountain."

Climb for Palestine - C4P started two years ago organizing mountaineering, rock climbing, mountain hiking and trekking trips locally and internationally, according to the group’s Facebook page.

“We walked dozens of tracks from the Golan Heights in the north of the country to the Naqab Desert in the south in spite of Israeli occupation obstacles,” said Azem. “We were the first large group to raise the flag of Palestine over Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and if we succeed this time, we will raise our flag once again in few days on the top of Mount Ararat.”

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