Thunder strikes Russian citizen in Georgia’s Mkinvartsveri peak
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Thunder struck a 49-year-old Russian citizen at 4,300 meters above sea level today on Mkinvatrsveri peak located near the Georgia-Russia border, in the eastern, mountainous part of the country.
The Georgian Emergency Management Service says that the health condition of the man is satisfactory and his health is not at risk.
Mkinvartsveri, also known as Kazbegi Mountain, is the third-highest peak in Georgia after Mount Shkhara and Janga and the seventh-highest summit in the Caucasus Mountains.
Its height is 5,047 meters.
An injured Russian tourist is recovering in hospital after she was rescued from a mountain in Kazbegi.
Georgia’s mountain resorts are becoming popular tourist spots, hosting 514,874 visitors during the winter season in 2017-2018, which is a 25 percent year-on-year (y/y) increase. The number of tourists in Georgia’s mountain resorts of Gudauri, Bakuriani, Goderdzi and Svaneti has increased by 491 percent since 2012.
Want to know how the slopes are before hitting the country’s major winter resorts? A new mobile application, Mountain Resorts of Georgia, can now provide you with all necessary information to make an informed choice.
The world-famous business media outlet Bloomberg lists Georgia among five great European destinations that combine both culture and skiing.
Rescuers saved a young Georgian woman when she was hiking towards the Mkinvartsveri peak in Kazbegi region of Georgia today. The young woman was in need of medical assistance as she had injuries on legs and was unable to move. Rescuers of Kazbegi emergency service department brought the injured woman to the location where emergency brigade was mobilised.