Via ferrata · Foča
Via Ferrata Mala Kutlača
Route overview
- Grade
- A/B
- Cable length
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- Vertical gain
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- Approach
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- Crossing
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- Descent
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Season: April–October
The protected access is A/B. No cable length has been published — this is a cave approach rather than a climbing line.
Not a conventional via ferrata but a protected cave approach, and the only route of its kind in the country. The circuit takes in four caves — the Dungeon, the Ice Cave, the Spa Cave and the Great Cave — in the karst near Foča, in the same area as the better-known Velika Kutlača.
The protected section giving access to the Great Cave is graded A/B. A ferrata set is recommended rather than required: anyone comfortable moving on grade B terrain can manage without one. There is no published cable length, because the protection is in short sections rather than a continuous line.
A head torch and a helmet are mandatory, not optional. The draw is the dripstone formations inside rather than the climbing, and the recorded circuit runs about 5.7 kilometres with 350 metres of ascent, taking around two and a half hours.
It does not appear in the national catalogue.
How we know this
BOA has not inspected Mala Kutlača. The figures on this page come from published sources, not from our own survey. Cable and anchor condition changes. Nothing here is a substitute for checking the route yourself before you climb.
Condition reports
Written by visitors who have climbed Mala Kutlača, not by BOA, and not checked by us before they appear. Treat them as one climber’s account on one day — useful, but never clearance to climb.
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