“Don’t trust the ropes on your right,” says Kyriakos Antonopoulos. “They can be a bit loose.” This is the kind of advice it pays to listen to when you’re scrambling up steep rocks, with sheer cliffs to the side that plummet down to jagged rocks and the Ionian Sea nearly 100 feet below.
Instead of relying on the guide ropes for safety, we grip metal staples in the rock and find our own handholds and footholds to hoist ourselves up the trail, until we come out at a grassy terrace overlooking Voidakilia Beach, one of the most spectacular in Greece, and the mouth of Nestor’s Cave.
