Climbers wishing to ascend this peak are often forced to stay in the Refuge of the Eleven, a hotel made of a gigantic mobile home perched precariously over a sheer cliff.
Climbers wishing to ascend this peak are often forced to stay in the Refuge of the Eleven, a hotel made of a gigantic mobile home perched precariously over a sheer cliff. This home to the "World's Nastiest Outhouse" is the source of a river running through Armavir and Krasnodar, the Kuban. This mountain's west summit was first scaled in 1874 by an expedition led by a man who had scaled the Zinalrothorn a decade earlier, Florence Crauford Grove. Like a separate mountain range to the east that contains Mount Damavand, this peak derives its current name from the primordial mountain of Zorastrianism. This inactive volcano was previously known as Strobilus, and regarded as the location where an eagle ripped the liver from a chained Prometheus. For 10 points, name this 5600-meter high mountain that straddles the Eurasian border in the Caucasus near the border of Georgia and Russia.
Climbers wishing to ascend this peak are often forced to stay in the Refuge of the Eleven, a hotel made of a gigantic mobile home perched precariously over a sheer cliff.
Mount Elbrus [or Miñi taw]