By the time I reached the snowfield, four hours into the hike and roughly 11,000 feet up in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, it was raining, and a late afternoon fog was drifting in, soon to ...

The Caucasus, an area that today includes parts of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey, is a crucial intersection for the history of Europe, both genetically and culturally.

One of the active volcanoes in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia is Mt. Elbrus, just north of the border with Georgia, and it has erupted as recently as ~50 A.D., which for a volcano is the blink ...

Ski tours in the Caucasus Mountains take adventurers to medieval Chazhashi, one of the five villages of Ushguli, in the Republic of Georgia. Located at about 7,000 feet above sea level, it's among ...

Over the next five years, Monteleone would return to Chechnya and the surrounding regions of the Caucasus Mountains as often as once a month. “A lot of work had been done on the wars and the ...

Krasnaya Polyana is Russia’s answer to Vail or Aspen. It’s the country’s preeminent ski town with three ski complexes, plenty of hotels, and a preponderance of snow. It also happened to be ...