Zekari Pass

Zekari Pass (Georgian: ზეკარი, also Zikar Pass in some older texts) is a 2,182 metres (7,159 ft) high 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]

Zekari Pass
Zekari Pass
Elevation2,182 m (7,159 ft)[1]
RangeMeskheti Range
Coordinates41°49′39″N 42°51′43″E
Zekari Pass is located in Caucasus mountains
Zekari Pass
Zekari Pass
Location in the Caucasus
Zekari Pass is located in Georgia
Zekari Pass
Zekari Pass
Location in Georgia, on the border of the Kakheti and Tusheti regions

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 Pass PeakVisor
  2. Зекарский перевал in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
  3. "Zekari pass". www.dangerousroads.org. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  4. Armenia: Travels and Studies by HFB Lynch, Vol 1, 1965 reprint, page 51
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