Bobotov Kuk and the Sedlo Summit Route

Bobotov Kuk was long believed to be the highest peak in Montenegro, a reputation that held through the 20th century as Durmitor became the focus of Montenegrin mountaineering after the national park was established in 1952. Surveying later confirmed that Zla Kolata in the Prokletije (“Accursed”) Mountains on the Albanian border is marginally higher, but Bobotov Kuk retained its place as the symbolic summit of Montenegrin hiking — the peak every serious walker in the country measures themselves against. The route from Sedlo became the standard approach because it is the most direct line to the summit from a road-accessible pass, and the view from the top, across the glacial cirques of Durmitor and down to the Tara canyon, is the reward that defines a Durmitor summer.