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See also:KASBEK (Georgian, Mkin-vari; Ossetian, Urs-khokh) , one of the See also:chief summits of the See also:Caucasus, situated in 42° 42' N. and 44 30' E., 7 M. as the See also:crow flies from a station of the same name on the high road to See also:Tiflis . Its See also:altitude is 16,545 ft . It rises on the range which runs See also:north of the See also:main range (main See also:water-parting), and which is pierced by the See also:gorges of the Ardon and the See also:Terek . It represents an See also:extinct See also:volcano, built up of See also:trachyte and sheathed with See also:lava, and has the shape of a See also:double See also:cone, whose See also:base lies at an altitude of 5800 ft . Owing to the steepness of its slopes, its eight glaciers See also:cover an aggregate See also:surface of not more than 8 sq. m., though one of them, Maliev, is 36 m. See also:long . The best-known See also:glacier is the Dyevdorak, or Devdorak, which creeps down the north-eastern slope into a See also:gorge of the same name, reaching a level of 7530 ft . At its eastern See also:foot runs the Georgian military road through the pass of See also:Darial (7805 ft.) . The See also:summit was first climbed in 1868 by D . W . Freshfield, A . W . See also:Moore, and C . See also:Tucker, with a Swiss See also:guide . Several successful ascents have been made since, the most valuable in scientific results being that of Pastukhov (1889) and that of G . Merzbacher and L . Purtscheller in 1890 . See also:Kasbek has a See also:great literature, and has See also:left a deep See also:mark in See also:Russian See also:poetry . See D . W . Freshfield in Proc . Geog . See also:Soc . (See also:November 1888) and The Exploration of the Caucasus (2nd ed., 2 vois., 1902) ; Hatisian's " Kazbek Glaciers " in Izvestia Russ . Geog . Soc . (See also:xxiv., 1888); Pastukhov in Izvestia of the Caucasus See also:Branch of Russ . Geog . Soc . (x . 1, 1891, with large-See also:scale See also:map) . |
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