Situated to the north from the Caucasus Mountain Ridge, Mount Elbrus is considered to be the highest peak in Russia and in the whole of Europe.
Mount Elbrus has other local names:
– Mingi Tau — Thousand Mountain (Karachay-Balkar);
– Uashkhemakhue — Mount of Happiness (Circassian);
– Jin-Padishah — King of Mountain Spirits (Turkic);
– Albar (Albors) — Tall (Iranian);
– Ialbuzi, Yalbuz — Snow Mane (Georgian);
– Uryushglyumos — Mount of a Day;
– Kuskamaf — Mount of Happiness;
– Shat, Shat-Gora.
Mount Elbrus is an inactive volcano with two summits. The west summit is 5,642.7 m or 18,512.8 ft high. The east summit is a bit lower with a height of 5,621 m or 18,442 ft. The peaks are separated with a saddle of 5,325 m or 17,470 ft in height.
The most famous Elbrus glaciers are Greater and Small Azau, Terskol and Irik.
The Adylsu, Shkheldy, Adyrsu ravines, Donguzorun and Ushba massifs are very famous with mountain climbers and tourists. Prielbrusie is the most popular ski resort.
The east summit of Mount Elbrus was first conquered in 1829 by a scientific expedition under the leadership of General G. A. Emmanuel, the commander of the Caucasus fortified line. The expedition team included Adolph Kupffer, a geophysicist, geologist, and founder of the Main Physical Observatory in St. Petersburg, the physicist Emil Lenz, the zoologist Edouard Menetries, who was the founder of the Russian Entomological Society, the botanist Carl Meyer, who later became an academician and manager of the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the painter and architect Joseph Bernardazzi, and the Hungarian scientist Janos Besse. The auxiliary expedition team comprised 650 soldiers and 350 line Cossacks. Khilar Khachirov, the Kabardian interpreter, was the first who climbed up the east summit.
The higher west summit was ascended in 1874 by English climbers led by F. Grove and Balkar guide A. Sottaev.
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