A tragic avalanche in Georgia’s mountainous Svaneti region has claimed the life of a tourist, local authorities confirmed.

This story appears in the October 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The men gather at dawn near the stone tower, cradling knives in callused hands. After a night of snowfall—the first ...

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