Climbing Mountains with Guide

Caucasus. Guided ascents of Elbrus, Ushba, Shkhara, Dykh Tau, Layla, Kazbek.

Season: All the year

	Climbing Elbrus - basic mountaineering program Highest mountain of Europe, extinct volcano, technically easy and fairy beautiful. No special climbing skill are required. Glacier walking.
	Climbing Kazbek, basic mountaineering program A bit more complicated than Elbrus but physically easier. Mostly glacier walking. Extremely beautifully located mountain. Climbing from Georgia makes the trip full of the sightseeing possibilities.
	Climbing Layla, basic mountaineering program in Svanetia Svanetia is a small mountain country located on the south side of the Main Caucasian Mountain Range, totally isolated from outside world, keeping the history and customs of their ancestors. One of the most interesting tourist locations in Georgia.
	Ushba - Mountaineering Legend, the most attractive mountain of Caucasus. Advanced level World wide famous mountain with very long and dramatic climbing history. The most beautiful and majestic mountain of Caucasus. Climbing skills are required.
	Shkhara - Mountaineering Legend, one of the most difficult mountains in Caucasus Highest mountain of Georgia, located just on the Russian-Georgian border in the Bezengi region - "Small Himalayas" of Caucasus. One of the most difficult climbing objects of Caucasus. Climbing skills are required.
	Dykh Tau - the second high mountain of Europe. The Mountain is located opposite to the famous Bezengi Wall in the so called "Northern Massif". Dykh Tau is the second high mountain of the Caucasus - only Elbrus is higher in Caucasus (5648 m). By the difficulty of the routes it is one of the most complicated climbing objects in Caucasus.

Caucasus - the most closely located to Moscow mountain system which is also the most accessible and developed in Russia. Each year thousands of climbers from many countries come to Caucasus for climbing mountains, trekking, skiing and snowboarding. Quite many of them come for climbing West Summit of Elbrus - the highest mountain of Caucasus and Europe. It's enough to come here just once, to be charmed by hospitality and goodwill of local people, to feel all originality of the nature of this mountains and to experience the boundless possibilities of Caucasus as the active outdoor recreational area! Of course you can not appreciate the world class service in Caucasus - the infrastructure is quite poor in the most tourist locations, but Caucasus is developing quite fast - new hotels are building, the professionalism of the people who work in the tourist business is growing.
AlexClimb Mountain Climbing School as Russian climbing company organizes many programs in Caucasus each year, and surely we can say - come, Russian Mountain, Caucasus are accessible and safe, you will get the best impressions from your trip!

We offer a wide range of programs in Caucasus - from interesting two-three days trekking good for a weekend, to a difficult climbing routes which require from climber the high level of qualification. Besides climbing we can organize mountain skiing, ski-touring, snowboarding.

Photos
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus, season 2008
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus, November 2007
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus in June 2007
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus, Skkhara and Dykh Tau, Bezengi, June 2007
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus in July 2007
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing Elbrus in June 2007
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, Photos from the Season 2006 (Shkhara from Bezengi)
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, Photos from the Season 2006 (Shkhara from Svanetia)
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, Photos from the Season 2005, climbing Elbrus, Ushba
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, Selected Photos, climbing Elbrus, Ushba
Mountain climbing in Caucasus, climbing South Ushba from Svanetia in 2002, photos

Stories
Climbing Elbrus, just feel it:) Story
Interview with Boris Tilov, the Chef of Elbrus rescue Service
The high mountain beach
Climbing Ushba from the North (Classic Route) Story
Climbing Ushba from Svanetia in 2002
Osetia, climbing Kazbek (Sergey Zabrodin)
Svanetia, Caucasus from the South (Vladimir Yanochkin)

Route descriptions
Caucasus, technical description of the West Elbrus route
Caucasus, technical description of the East Elbrus route
Caucasus, technical description of the North Ushba route
Caucasus, technical description of the South Ushba route