{"id":55732,"date":"2020-07-29T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/tigran-varag-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:12:31","slug":"tigran-varag-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/tigran-varag-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigran Varag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Founder and director)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1984 in Yerevan, geographer Tigran Varag developed a passion for nature, photography, travel and adventure as a child and later managed to turn this passion into an exciting and varied career. He has established <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armgeo.project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armenian Geographic<\/a><\/span> in 2012.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has organized and led over 1000 hiking and mountain climbing tours and events<\/li>\n<li>Author of the book <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/mountains_of_armenia_presentation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cMountains of Armenia\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>A board member of Armenian Mountaineering and Mountain Tourism Federation<\/li>\n<li>He has participated in International Mountaineering Conference in Moscow as a representative of Armenia<\/li>\n<li>He has participated in International Mountaineering Festival in Iran, during which he took courses of ice climbing with UIAA experts<\/li>\n<li>Within the framework of the project <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/mern-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cOurs\u201d<\/a><\/span> he has climbed the highest peaks of all mountain ranges of Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding ascents undertaken outside of Armenia \u2013 Ararat (5165m), Qajkar (3932m), Sipan (4058m), Elbrus (5642m), Kazbek (5047m), a winter ascent of Hezar (4501m) and a winter ascent of Kaputkogh Mountain (3074), Sabalan (4811 m) and Damavand (5610 m)<\/li>\n<li>Within the framework of the project \u201cTsovu Bolor\u201d he organized ascents to all the mountains surrounding Lake Van<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_55737\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55737\" class=\"wp-image-55737 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u0537\u056c\u0562\u0580\u0578\u0582\u057d\u056b \u0563\u0561\u0563\u0561\u0569\u056b\u0576\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?resize=705%2C470&amp;ssl=1 705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.armgeo.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6911.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the peak of Elbrus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tigran Varag climbed the highest peaks of all the mountain ranges in Armenia. He also passed through the deepest canyons and entered the deepest caves. He is sure that Armenia is a land of endless discoveries and one life is not enough to know it completely. Now he shares his knowledge and experience with the members of the group every time discovering Armenia in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>His new book about mountains of Armenian Highland is going to be published in the near future.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Our events<\/h2>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Founder and director) Born in 1984 in Yerevan, geographer Tigran Varag developed a passion for nature, photography, travel and adventure as a child and later managed to turn this passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,575,577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armgeo-team-en","category-armgeo-team","category-armgeo-team-en-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tigran Varag \/ The Founder of Armenian Geographic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tigran Varag is the founder of Armenian Geographic. 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