Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional example of mountain scenery with medieval-type villages and tower-houses. The village of Chazhashi still has ...

It was 1998, and he was suited up in hand-me-down skis, abandoned by Soviet alpinists near his family’s farm in the Svaneti ...

Or take the overnight train to Zugdidi and the jump in a local marshrutka (minivan taxi) to Mestiain the popular Svaneti region, from which you can embark upon a four-day trek to Ushguli ...

After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains—the day has broken with icy clarity. Suddenly visible above the village of ...