Option 1:

Tbilisi (Batumi, Kutaisi) - Mestia - Lake Koruldi - green meadow near the Laila hotel - Chizhdi pass (3150 m) - green meadow parking (2850 m) - Climbing to Laila (4009 m) - green meadow (2850 m) - Chizhdi pass (3150 m) - Mestia - green meadow of Tetnuldi (2800 m) - Amaranth nest (3380 m) - Nageb pass (3700 m) - Climbing Tetnuld mountain ( 4869 m) - Mestia - Mazeri settlement - Hunting overnights - Camp at the foot of the Ushbinsky Icefall - Camp at the Ushbinsky Pass - Camp on the Ushba Plateau - Climbing North Ushba (4690m) - Mazeri settlement - Mestia settlement - Tbilisi (Batumi, Kutaisi )

Option 2:

Tbilisi (Batumi, Kutaisi) - Mestia - Ushguli - lower Ingur nights - upper Ingur nights - Climbing to Vahushti (3879 m) – Ushguli - green meadow of Tetnuldi (2800 m) - Amaranth nest (3380 m) - Nageb pass (3700 m) - Ascent to Tetnuld  (4869 m) - Mestia – v.Mazeri - Hunting camps - camp at the foot of the Ushba icefall - camp on the Ushbinsky pass - camp on the Ushbinsky plateau - Ascent to Northern Ushba (4690m) - Mazeri village - Mestia village - Tbilisi (Batumi, Kutaisi)

The cost of a package of services - from 2800 US dollars *

* Strictly 3 participants (Ushba)!!!

Included:

• Mestia, accommodation in a hostel, three nights
• 3 meals a day on the route (we shop together, we cook together)
• group climbing equipment (we will discuss this before the start of the tour)
• registration with border guards and rescuers
• rental of personal equipment (option for a fee)
• work of the instructor (Guide)

Attention! When climbing Ushba - one guide for 3 trained participants

• first aid kit
• Moving Mestia-Ushguli-cable car-Mestia
• Moving Mestia-Mazeri-Mestia
• lifting loads on horseback (option for a fee)

The price does not include:

• air flight to Georgia and back
• travel Tbilisi (Kutaisi) - Mestia - Tbilisi (Kutaisi)
• participants bring tents to accommodate 4 people (if there are 3 participants)
• participants bring 2 ropes of 50 meters each
• children are not allowed on the route
• Insurance (Mandatory, required upon registration with border guards!!!)
• personal equipment
• additional excursions,
• transfers outside the program
• food in cities

What is included in group public equipment

Ice screws, carabiners, loops, hooks, stoppers, communications, gas cylinders or gasoline, burners, medical kit, cooking utensils, etc.

Brief information on the area

Svaneti is a historical mountainous region in the north-west of Georgia, inhabited by Svans.

Geographically and historically, Svaneti is divided into Upper and Lower, separated by the Svaneti ridge. Upper Svaneti is an alpine valley in the upper reaches of the Inguri River. In administrative terms, Upper Svaneti is the Mestian region of the Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti region with its center in the urban settlement. Mestia. From the north and east, Upper Svaneti is bordered by the Main Caucasian Range with the peaks of Shkhara, Ushba, Tetnuldi, etc., along which the Georgian-Russian border passes. From the west, the area is separated by the Khurum ridge from the Kodori Gorge. Upper Svaneti was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Mestia - an urban-type settlement, is the cultural and religious center of the mountain of Svaneti. There is a historical and ethnographic museum in the village, where unique icons and manuscripts are stored, a house museum and a bust of a native of Mestia, the famous climber M.V. Khergiani (buried here). Several dozens of medieval Svan stone houses with watch and residential towers have been preserved here; churches (X - XIV centuries), including Matskhvari (Spas), Targzel (Holy Archangels) and others. Numerous medieval churches and fortifications of the Mestia region are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Mestia is also a center of alpine tourism and mountaineering; from here ascents to the peaks of Ushba, Dzhangi-tau, Shkhara and others begin. On December 1, 2010 the first ski resort was opened here. Now there are two of them: Hatsvali and Tetnuldi

Requirements for participants

• The route is designed for good physical fitness
• The group size is from 3 to 12 people. When climbing Ushba - one guide for 3 trained participants
• Participants bring tents to accommodate 4 people (if there are 3 participants)
• Participants bring 2 ropes of 50 meters
• Children are not allowed on the route
• Insurance (Mandatory, required when registering with border guards!!!)

Additional information

• The host party has the right to change the schedule of movement along the route according to weather conditions and the condition of the group
• Tourists prepare meals on the route themselves on gas burners - primus stoves under the supervision of an instructor
• The price of the tour does not include: additional excursions, transfers outside the program, environmental fees, etc.
• It is possible to provide additional services by prior arrangement: transfer: airport - hotel; rental of personal equipment; hotel reservations; organization of recreation on the Black Sea; accommodation in Tbilisi, excursions in Tbilisi, Mtskheta, etc.

How to get to the start of the route?

It is easier to get here via Tbilisi. Night train from Tbilisi to Zugdidi, from where at 6 am transfer to Mestia. Here you will find a lot of minibuses, the road to Mestia takes 3 hours. As additional options - arrival in Batumi or Kutaisi

ATTENTION!!!!

• All recommendations and wishes of the Guide are taken into account
• If one of the participants on the day of the ascent feels ill, a participant is injured, etc. The Guide (one Guide in the group), for SAFETY purposes, returns the entire group down. A second attempt is made the next day.
• If there are 2 Guides in the group, the second Guide ensures the SAFE descent of the participants, and the first continues the ascent