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Zekari Pass

Coordinates : 41°49′39″N 42°51′43″E / 41.82750°N 42.86194°E / 41.82750; 42.86194 Zekari Pass ( Georgian : ზეკარი , also Zikar Pass in some older texts) is a 2,182-metre-high (7,...

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Coordinates: 41°49′39″N42°51′43″E / 41.82750°N 42.86194°E / 41.82750; 42.86194

Zekari Pass (Georgian:ზეკარი, also Zikar Pass in some older texts) is a 2,182-metre-high (7,159 ft)mountain pass located in Georgia's[2]Meskheti Range on the border of the Imereti and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions. Though used as a 'caravan' route since times immemorial, the road across the pass remains unpaved, suitable only for off-road vehicles and is usually impassable from October to June.[3]

History

In August 1893, British parliamentarian and explorer H. F. B. Lynch took this route between Kutais and Akhaltsykh, expounding: "I doubt whether there exists in the nearer Asia a standpoint which commands a prospect at once so grand and so instructive as that which is unfolded from the summit of the Zikar Pass."[4]

References

  1. ↑Zekari PassPeakVisor
  2. ↑Зекарский перевал in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
  3. ↑"Zekari pass". www.dangerousroads.org. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  4. ↑Armenia: Travels and Studies by HFB Lynch, Vol 1, 1965 reprint, page 51