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Bezimennia Vrah (, meaning "the Nameless Summit"), is a summit in eastern Rila mountain range in southwestern
Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
. Reaching a height of 2,798 m, it is the fourth highest summit in the mountain range behind
Musala Musala ( ); from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: from '' Musalla'', "near God" or "place for prayer" is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, as well as in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at . With a topographic prominence ...
(2,925 m),
Malka Musala Malka Musala (, meaning ''Lesser Musala'') is a summit in the eastern part of the Rila Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria. With an altitude of 2,902 m, it is the second highest peak in Rila after Musala (2,925 m), fourth in Bulgaria beh ...
(2,902 m) and Irechek (2,852 m). Bezimennia Vrah is located in
Rila National Park Rila National Park () is the largest national park in Bulgaria spanning an area of in the Rila mountain range in the south-west of the country. History It was established on 24 February 1992 to protect several ecosystems of national importanc ...
. For a short time, it was called Druzhba, meaning "friendship". Bezimennia Vrah is the first peak of the ridge that starts from Musala and spans in northwestern direction, surrounding the Musala cirque from the west. In its upper part the ridge is rocky, with unstable stone debris; in its lower part it is grassy and is known as Markudzhika. There is no marked hiking trail along the crest of the ridge, and traversing its rocky part is not suitable for inexperienced hikers. The summit is separated from the neighbouring Musala and Aleko (2,713 m) by rocky saddles. Bezimennia Vrah is dome-shaped, covered with large boulders and fragmented unstable rock material. Its eastern slopes descend steeply towards the second step of the Musala cirque; at its foothills is the second of the
Musala Lakes Musala Lakes () are a group of seven glacial lakes situated in the Rila mountain range of southwestern Bulgaria at an altitude between 2,322 m and 2,709 m. Location Administratively, the group of lakes belongs to Samokov Municipalit ...
, the Nameless Lake. The granite north face of the summit is a climbing site. Its western slope is very steep and reaches all the way to the deep valley of the river Beli Iskar. Climbing and cutting the Nameless Peak should be done with caution due to the instability of the terrain and the precipices.


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* * {{cite book , ref={{harvid, Grancharov, 2000 , title = Върховете на Рила. Пътеводител към високата планина , trans-title = The Summits of Rila. Guide to the High Mountain , last1 = Грънчаров (Grancharov) , first1 = Румен (Rumen) , year = 2000 , language = Bulgarian , publisher = , location = София (Sofia) , isbn = Mountains of Rila Landforms of Sofia Province Two-thousanders of Bulgaria