Village Tanushe – Peak Shupla Stena

Shupla Stena – peak in the central part of the main ridge of the stretch of Mount Korab, in the Republic of Macedonia. Its height is 2,431 meters.

It is located in the central part of Mount Korab on the main ridge, in close proximity to the border line between Macedonia and Albania. According to the location of the top of Shupla Stena, it is located at coordinates 41°43’29” north latitude and 20°31’06” east longitude. It is located on the main ridge of the Korab mountain range, between the Crn Kamen (2404 m) and Derza (2403 m) peaks immediately to the north and the Shkrtec pass (2020 m) and the small flat field of Fusha e Limuet to the south. In its immediate vicinity, on the same mountain ridge defined by the Shkrtec and Tsiganski Prohod passes, with Shupla Stena are the pointed sharp peaks Crn Kamen and Derza, which is why, viewed from several places from a distance, those three peaks give a particularly beautiful “alpine”-like view. Shupla Stena is characterized by a very magnificent view, where the eastern slope is very huge and huge, interspersed with lush grass and a pile of small crushed stones, while the western one is a steep cut rock, while the ridge of the top itself is very narrow, rocky and broken, i.e. cut with ravines on both sides. Just below the ridge just below the peak, between two rock slabs that make up the ridge, there is a larger circular hole, a gap that acts and gives the appearance of the peak and the wall itself as if it were hollow, which in fact the very rocks of the peak are hollow, which is why most likely the peak was named Shupla Stena. On older topographical maps, the peak is also written as Šuplja/Šuplja Stena, probably under the influence of Yugoslav cartography in Serbo-Croatian, while in some written sources the peak is also known as Šupliv Kamen. The climb to the top of Shupla Stena is very difficult because its slopes are very steep, with the southeastern one being more grassy, and the northern and western ones being stony and earthy where there is a risk of slipping. The highest point on the top itself is very narrow, and there is only room for 3 to 4 people to stand on it. The top of Shupla Stena can be climbed by a well-trodden border path that leads and skirts it along its southern, eastern and northern slopes, and the best ascent is on the grassy south-east slope through the small flat field of Fucha e Limuet, just at its south-east foot.

Source: Wikipedia

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