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Lying at 5,054 meters (16,581&nbsp;ft) above at sea level, Mount Kazbek is the highest mountain in Eastern Georgia. It is also the third-highest peak in the country (after Mount Shkhara and Janga). Kazbegi is the second-highest volcanic summit in the Caucasus, after Mount Elbrus. The summit lies directly to the west of the town of Stepantsminda and is the most prominent geographic feature of the area. The Ingush name Beshloam and Chechen name Bashlam translates as "Molten Mount".

Location

Kazbek is located on the Khokh Range, a mountain range which runs north of the Greater Caucasus Range, and which is pierced by the gorges of the Ardon and the Terek. At its eastern foot runs the Georgian Military Road through the pass of Darial 2,378&nbsp;meters (7,805&nbsp;feet). The mountain itself lies along the edge of the Borjomi–Kazbegi Fault (which is a northern sub-ending of the North Anatolian Fault). The region is highly active tectonically, with numerous small earthquakes occurring at regular intervals. An active geothermal/hot spring system also surrounds the mountain. Kazbek is a potentially active volcano, built up of trachyte and sheathed with lava, and has the shape of a double cone, whose base lies at an altitude of 1,770&nbsp;meters (5,800&nbsp;feet).

According to Prince Ioane of Georgia, Ingush mountaineer Yosif Buzurtanov, also known as "Yosif the Mokhevian", was the first to ascend the mountain peak of Kazbek in the late eighteenth century during the reign of Heraclius II of Georgia, though, officially, this occurred in 1868 by D. W. Freshfield, A. W. Moore, and C. Tucker

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See also

  • List of highest points of Russian federal subjects
  • List of volcanoes in Georgia (country)

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File:Georgianroad.jpg|19th-century postcard of the Georgian Military Road near Mount Kazbegi

File:Kazbegi.July.2009.jpg|Mount Kazbek from the outside of the Gergeti Trinity Church

File:"Kazbegi", Panoramic view of Mount Kazbek (Mqinvartsveri) range, Caucasus, Georgia.jpg|Mount Kazbek,

File:Kasbek Cross (10600426125).jpg |Mount Kazbek, Georgia

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File:980522-IMG 6729-2-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:Kazbek, Gergeti Trinity Church 2017.jpg|Mount Kazbegi in the Autumn

File:980522-GergetiGlacier-Kazbek-IMG 6459-2.jpg|Crevasses of the Gergeti Glacier

File:980522-IMG 6827-2.jpg|Kazbegi Mountain, August 2019

File:Kazbegi, Mount Kazbek, Georgia.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-Kazbek-GregetiGlacier-pan1.jpg|Crevasses of the Gergeti Glacier

File:"Kazbegi", Panoramic view of Mount Kazbek range, Caucasus, Georgia.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:Mkinvarcveri.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-Kazbek-Pan1.jpg|Crevasses of the Gergeti Glacier

File:980520-Kazbek-IMG 5933-2.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980520-Kazbek-IMG 5941-2.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-IMG 6727-2-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980520-Kazbek-IMG 5944-2.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-IMG 6840-2-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-IMG 6579-2-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980522-IMG 6607-2-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:980520-IMG 6003-Kazbek.jpg|Mount Kazbek, Georgia

File:Kazbegi.Tbilisi.Sunset.jpg|Mount Kazbegi as Viewed from Tbilisi during Sunset

File:Kazbegi.Winter.2026.jpg|Mount Kazbegi from Tbilisi in the Winter

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Notes

References

Sources

  • – photos
  • Different ways to climb mt Kazbek – detailed description