- Europe’s highest point, Mount Elbrus (5642m), is located in the Russian Caucasus. A bit out of direction when you think of ‘Europe’.
- Mount Elbrus has two peaks which are the dome of an inactive volcano. The western peak is higher than the eastern peak of this mountain.
- Check out a downloadable 3D model of Mount Elbrus (West Summit) area. A higher resolution model can be found in the PeakVisor mobile app.
- I successfully summited Mount Elbrus, at 5,642m, is Europe‘s highest mountain, last year in Russia and it was an amazing experience.
- Getting to Mount Elbrus. You can climb Elbrus as part of a guided commercial expedition, or you can climb the mountain on your own.
- Mount Elbrus weather. The temperature on Mt Elbrus as in Caucasian mountains on summits is -10 -15 in Summer.
- So we will explore one such beautiful mountain from a beautiful country spreading over two continents in this article. We will explore Mount Elbrus in Russia.
- We hope our Climbing Mount Elbrus guide will help you to make the right decision and to prepare for conquering this amazing mountain.
- Interesting facts about the mountain. In 1956, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Kabardino-Balkaria, a group of 400 climbers could climb Mount Elbrus...
- Mount Elbrus sits deep in the Baksan Valley and Caucasus mountain range running along the Russian Georgia border and east of the Black sea.