Svaneti

Svaneti
	Svaneti is famouse for its nature, its common view from houses in svaneti villages
	Ushba is really the most magic mountain. Its singular and rather disturbing shape, the grandiosity of its faces, and its alpinist history have made a myth of the mountain that bears the name of Witches' Sabbath. The northern peak is 4,694 m, the southern peak is 4,710 m.Today there are about fifty routes on Mt. Ushba, ten of which are rated 6A and thirteen 5B. The Zerkalo (Mirror) route on the north-eastern face of the northern peak is legendary; it was first traced by M. Kherghiani, who went up the entire overhanging part in a free climb - about one-third of the 1,200 m rock face (6A). The Kustovskiy route on the pillar of South Ushba (6B)
	Shkhara is the highest point of Georgia. The summit lies in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, to the south-east of Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain. Shkhara is the third highest peak in the Caucasus Shkhara is the high point and the eastern anchor of a massif known as the Bezingi (or Bezengi) Wall, a 12 kilometres (7 mi) long ridge. It is a large, steep peak in a heavily glaciated region, and presents serious challenges to mountaineers. Its North Face (on the Russian side) is 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) high and contains several classic difficult routes. The significant subsummit Shkhara West, 5,068 m (16,627 ft), is a climbing objective in its own right, and a traverse of the entire Bezingi Wall is considered "Europe's longest, most arduous, and most committing expedition.
	Svaneti is rich with architectural monuments of the mid feudal epoch, namely with residential compounds, towers, farming buildings, originally curved and cut wood furniture and other household commodities. One of the main components of a Svan's house is a tower. It is a square stone pyramid with dimensions of the base 5 to 5 metres, which usually has four or five floors and is 25 meters high. For security reasons the last floor has small windows - wider from inside than outside. The tower's angle is directed towards the slope. Its massive hemi-spheric basement and spatial orientation ensure the sustainability of the building and resistance to the natural disasters
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