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 2500 US dollars *

* depends on the number of participants, living conditions ......

Included:

• Mestia, accommodation in a hostel, three nights
• 3 meals a day on the route
• group climbing equipment
• 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)
• insurance
• tents
• personal equipment
• additional excursions,
• transfers outside the program
• food in cities

What is included in group public equipment

Basic ropes, 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