After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains—the day has broken with icy clarity. Suddenly visible above the village of ...

Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional example of mountain scenery with medieval-type villages and tower-houses. The village of Chazhashi still has ...

It was 1998, and he was suited up in hand-me-down skis, abandoned by Soviet alpinists near his family’s farm in the Svaneti ...

What were you trying to achieve? Mariam Khatchvani: When we first started to dream about it, we wanted to establish the Svaneti Residency. I myself have taken part in similar initiatives, like Cannes' ...

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