Zekari Pass

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^[1] 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.^[2]

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. ^[3]

References[]

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

Coordinates: 41°49′39″N 42°51′36″E / 41.82750°N 42.86000°E / 41.82750; 42.86000

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[1] Зекарский перевал in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)

[2] "Zekari pass". www.dangerousroads.org. Retrieved 2018-08-30.

[3] Armenia: Travels and Studies by HFB Lynch, Vol 1, 1965 reprint, page 51

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