Caucasus on two wheels. Gorge Adyl-Su. Alpine camp "Shkhelda" List of personal equipment

A beautiful creation of Nature, the Adyl-su gorge, stretches for 15 km from the peaks of the Main Caucasian Range to its mouth in the Baksan Valley. Beautiful pointed peaks, complex broken glaciers, sparkling white snow-ice slopes frame green valleys in the colorful decoration of alpine meadows.
The Adyl-suu gorge is located between two watershed ridges Adyl and Yusengi.
The Adyl Range is the watershed of the Adyl-su and Adyr-su (Adyrsu) rivers, which flow into the Baksan near the villages of Elbrus and Upper Baksan, respectively. The ridge departs to the north from the top of GKH Gumachi. The Adyl Range ends in the north with a small spur, including the peaks of Yndyrchi (3917 m), South-Western (3800 m), Central (3820 m), North-Eastern (3838 m) peaks of the Mongolian People's Republic. The spur stretched from the southwest to the northeast, forming the southern slopes of the Baksan valley between the Yndyrchi (Andyrchi) and Kurmychi gorges, which fall steeply to the Baksan River.
The Yusengi Ridge is of interest from a tourist or climbing point of view only in its upper reaches, where it merges with the Main Caucasian Range. There are high-mountain passes connecting the gorges of Adyl-su and Yusengi, as well as the beautiful peak of Yusengi-bashi Uzlovaya, which rises like a huge white dome at the confluence of the ridges. Its eastern slopes are steep and rocky, while the western ones serve as excellent pastures with spacious alpine meadows.
The Adyl-su gorge is the most popular gorge not only in the Elbrus region, but throughout Kabardino-Balkaria. You can get into it on the 90th km of the Baksan-Azau federal road in the area of ​​the Saklya tourist complex - 1770 m. In addition to pine, there are many hardwoods in the gorge. Lots of raspberries, rose hips, mountain ash, sea buckthorn and barberry. There are many medicinal plants in the alpine meadows.
100 m further is the training and sports base "Adyl-su". Currently, the base functions as a children's summer recreation center. But sports climbing groups are always welcome guests. Here they will receive shelter, food, advice on the area and routes, as well as a qualified instructor.
The climbing cemetery is located 100 meters further from the Adyl-su campus up the gorge. It is an eternal memorial to those who passed away from us untimely. It serves as a constant reminder that mountains are potentially dangerous. natural object and, being here, it is necessary to follow the elementary rules written in blood and sweat on the pages of books and textbooks, and which can save health and life.
In the gorge there are two educational and sports mountaineering bases of JSC "Kabbalkalpinist": "Adyl-su" - 1800 m and "Shkheldy" - 1950 m, as well as the educational and methodological center "Elbrus" - 2000 m "Kabbalkalpinist", educational and sports base MSTU named after Bauman "Jan-tuan" - 2300 m, and also at the mouth of the gorge there is a private boarding house "Saklya" - 1800 m with a bivouac, at an altitude of 1950 m there is a control and rescue detachment "Shkheldy" and at an altitude of 2350 m on the left and on on the right bank of the Dzhan-kuat river there is a bivouac complex national park"Prielbrusye" with a developed infrastructure.
Information boards of the national park are located near the mouth of the gorge, near the road, near climbing and sports bases, near the bivouac, and every visitor can get information by passing them.
There is a taxi rank at the mouth of the gorge and you can save energy for future trips by driving to your destination by car or throwing some food and equipment there.
From the mouth of the gorge to
educational and sports base "Adyl-su" -100m,
educational and sports base "Shkheldy" - 2450,
educational and methodological center "Elbrus" - 3100,
old "Dzhan-tugan" - 5500,
new "Dzhan-tugan" - 6 km,
bivouac NP - 7 km,
"Green Hotel" - 12 km.
From the mouth of the gorge, a flat horizontal asphalt road goes up past the Adyl-su training and sports base. Further, it becomes inclined and with an average slope of 11 ° goes up the gorge towards the Main Caucasian Range. On it you can comfortably get to the a/b "Shkhelda" and UMC "Elbrus". Further from the bridge, a dirt road begins, more like a test site for SUVs, which, with an average slope of 9 °, leads to the Dzhan-Tugan training and sports base of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The base is bypassed along the path on the right. After 300 m there is a bivouac. From the bivouac up towards the "Green Hotel" and the Bashkarinskoye Lake there is also a well-visible path, along which in 2 hours you can reach the objects located in close proximity to the Main Caucasian Range.
The path passes by an avalanche-prone couloir, 200 m short of the Shkhelda SS. In winter, avalanches constantly come down in this place, which block the road, and the road service is constantly on the alert. On account of the avalanche coming down this couloir, two human lives.
Work is in full swing in climbing bases: some groups go on climbing, others are engaged on ice, others are mastering rock climbing techniques.
Tourists and climbers hone their sports skills on training routes. No one knows when you will need something for which you have to repeat every day to exhaustion on a familiar route that has become the most inconspicuous hooks.
Attention! Climbing classes are possible only under the supervision and guidance of an instructor and with a reliable top rope.
On the second serpentine after the second bridge from the bottom there is an artillery gun, from which the avalanche service of Roshydromet shoots avalanches, preventing the formation of critical masses of snow and lowering it in small portions.

On the first serpentine of the ascent, you can turn off the road, climb the stairs over the fence and follow the path that runs along the river towards the current, now approaching it, then moving away. Approximately half way down, you can go down to the Narzan spring and have a rest after tasting the heroic drink. From mid-July to the end of August, the source is flooded by the river and it is useless to try to find it on the shore among the stones. The trail leads around the old "Dzhan-tugan" and leads to the road, along which in 15-20 minutes you can get to the training and sports base of the Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman "Dzhan-tugan".
Not far from the USB, a path laid among alpine meadows rises steeply to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Pass, where there are places for setting up a bivouac. From here, ascents are made to the peaks of the Mongolian People's Republic, Kurmychi.
Please don't trample the grasslands. Walk only along the path.
Nearby is a stream flowing down from the right side of the gorge. It can be crossed over a flimsy bridge or over rocks. Crossing the stones is not difficult. Then there is a clamp, where a narrow path is limited on one side by a steep rocky-grassy slope, on the other - by a plumb line to the Dzhan-kuat River. A wire is stretched along the clamp, for which you need to cling. The length of the downhill is about 50 m. Then the downhill flattens out, the trail widens.
Ahead, a bridge has been laid from one large stone to another stone. This is the first bridge across the Dzhan-kuat River from the Green Hotel down the gorge. For insurance, a wire is stretched here as a railing. We pass it and find ourselves on the left bank of the Dzhan-kuat river.
Attention!
You need to go holding on to the wire.
It is better not to climb the high right-bank moraine of the Bashkara glacier, the path along the moraine has collapsed in some places, and it is dangerous to walk!

You need to go in a pocket between the moraine and the slope of the watershed ridge. Half an hour of walking along a slightly sloping grassy slope ends with an ascent to the next terrace. On it, a 20-minute walk along the riverbed and access to a huge green meadow, bounded from below by the shaft of the right-bank moraine of the Bashkara glacier, and from above by the left-bank moraine of the Dzhan-kuat glacier. Tourists and climbers find shelter here. This glade is called "Green Hotel". Here they usually arrange a bivouac before climbing or hiking. Under the slopes of the right-bank moraine of the Bashkara glacier there is a spring with clean water.
At the Green Hotel there is a research and production glaciological station of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Scientists observe the life of the Dzhan-kuat glacier, and students of the faculty do their work experience here.
It is worth climbing to the moraine from the northwestern side of the Green Hotel, located above Lake Bashkara. Elbrus is clearly visible from here. And in the late and early hours of the day you can admire the sunset and sunrise. From here you can see how Elbrus gradually turns into all possible warm colors. The spectacle is unforgettable.
Lake Bashkara is located at an altitude of 2600 m between the moraine ridges of the Bashkara and Dzhan-kuat glaciers. Its depth, according to some sources, is about 20 m.
Some scientists suggest that the lake can break through the moraine dam and rush along the gorge, sweeping away everything in its path. But this will not happen in the coming years, since the runoff is quite normal and there is no accumulation of water within the boundaries of the existing banks. According to the doctor of geographical sciences, glaciologist Viktor Popovnin, one should not give in to panic, but one should not lose vigilance either.
About 10 years ago, the Bashkarinsky glacier descended into the lake with its tongue. At the beginning of summer, one could observe how huge blocks of ice broke off from the glacier, fell noisily into the water, raising waves.
Currently, the world is experiencing an increase in ambient temperature, retreat of glaciers and a rise in the level of the world's oceans.
Attention! Swimming in the lake is not recommended due to the cold water and the great depth of the lake.
If you stand facing Elbrus, then on the left there are the peaks of the Main Caucasian Range: Bashkara (4241 m), Ullu-Kara (4302 m), Alyosha Germogenov Peak (3993 m), Cheget-kara-bashi (3667 m). Behind the back, in the amphitheater of the Dzhan-kuat glacier, the peaks of the GKH Gumachi (3805 m), Trapeze (3740 m) and Dzhan-tugan (3991 m) stand out.
The peak of Bash-kara (Chernaya head, balk) - 4241 m - is located in the GKH between the peaks of Ullu-kara in the west and Dzhan-tugan in the east. To the north, Bashkara breaks off with an icy rocky wall, and from the ridges and from under the wall, steep, severely broken ice slopes descend with numerous faults that feed the Bashkarinsky glacier. Bash-Kara was first climbed along the Northern buttress and the Western ridge on June 29, 1948 by climbers led by K. Egger. When the sun is in the south, the northern wall of Bashkara is in shadow and really resembles a black head.
Ullu-kara (Big, black, balk) - 4302 m - a huge rocky massif of the GKH, located between the peak of Bashkar in the east and the peak of Free Spain in the west. The top of the massif is covered with a thick ice cap hanging over its eastern and western walls and serving as one of the sources of food for the Kashkha-tash glaciers in the northwest and Bashkara in the northeast. When you look at Ullu-kara from the slopes of Elbrus straight to the north, the peak faces the beautiful northern wall, formidable and terrible. The first ascent of Ullu-Kara was made by the group of N. Popov in 1934. Their route serves as a classic route to the summit.
A short northern spur with the peaks of Germogenov Peak and Cheget-Kara-Bashi departs to the northeast from Ullu-Kara. Cheget-kara-bashi (Northern, black peak, beam) - 3667 m - the extreme peak of the Northern spur of Ullu-kara. On the eastern side of the peak lies the Bash-kara glacier, and under the western slopes there is a small Cheget-kara-bashi glacier with Turyi lakes below it - a traditional place for bivouacs. Here, on a spacious green meadow with the purest drinking water, tourists and climbers stop. From here you have an amazing view of Elbrus and the surrounding peaks. The first ascent was made on August 19, 1937 along an easy route by Alexander Sidorenko and Vladimir Orlyankin.
Peak Germogenov - 3990 m - is named after Alexei Germogenov, who died on Elbrus in 1933. Previously, it was called Dzhatchi chekgan (Peak Dzhatchi) in honor of the famous Balkar strongman and hunter Dzhatchi Dzhappuev, who, according to an oral Balkar legend, made the first ascent to both peaks of Elbrus long before the officially recognized Killar Khashirov. The peak is located in the northern spur of the Ullu-Kary massif. In the east, under the peak lies the Bash-kara glacier, under the western slopes - the Kashkha-tash glacier. The first ascent was made on July 11, 1934 by a group led by N. Popov.
Dzhan-tugan (born soul, balk.) rises on the right side of the amphitheater of the Green Hotel. This beautiful snow and ice pyramid with a height of 4000 m is replete with routes of medium difficulty. On the south side of the Dzhan-tugan lies the Dzhantugan plateau. The first ascent was made on August 12, 1935 along the Eastern ridge by climbers led by O. Aristov. According to the Balkar legend, a hooligan expelled from the Balkar community lived under this peak, offending women, children and the elderly. He lived there until his soul was born again kind and compassionate. Only then did the Balkars accept him.
In the upper reaches of the valley, above the Dzhan-kuat glacier, the peaks of Gumachi, Cheget-tau-chan, Trapezia, VIA-tau, Koi-avgan-bashi rise.
Mount Gumachi (mountain covered with canvas) is the main object for preparing beginners for the badge "Alpinist of Russia". Climbing routes to Gumachi from all gorges on any route belong to the lowest category of difficulty. On them, snowy slopes and ridges are combined with simple rocky areas. From the top, a grandiose panorama of the ridges and beautiful valleys immersed between them opens up. To the north from Gumachi to the peak of Adyl-bashi, the Northern Spur of the GKH stretches, separating the valleys of the Adyl-suu and Adyr-suu rivers with the peaks of Chotchat, VIA-tau (the peak of the Military Engineering Academy), Koyaugan-aush (the peak above the pass through which they drive sheep), Friendship and Locomotive.
The first ascent of Gumachi was made along the Western ridge on July 1, 1933 by A. Japaridze and G. Niguriani. On VIA-tau, the first group led by O. Aristov climbed on July 27, 1935. On July 17, 1935, G. Deberl climbed Coyaugan-aush (3820 m) alone for the first time. The summit is composed of heavily destroyed rocks, rockfalls are frequent. Climbing the summit and passing the pass of the same name is not recommended due to the increased danger of rockfalls.
The easy passes of Gumachi - 3450 m and Koi-Avgan-Aush - 3466 m can be passed to the Adyr-su gorge. The approach to the Gumachi pass along the Dzhan-kuat glacier is replete with cracks. Therefore, the passage of the pass involves mountain training. In this case, you need to go exclusively in bundles. From the Dzhan-kuat glacier, a grandiose panorama of Mount Elbrus and the surrounding ranges opens up. All difficult passes, such as Dzhantugan and Bashkara, lead through the Main Caucasian Range to Georgia and are therefore closed for passage.
The Jan-kuat glacier is slowly receding. Together with the Bashkarinsky glacier Dzhan-kuat is the main source of food for the stormy and capricious river Dzhan-kuat.

Adyl-Su Gorge has long been one of the favorite places for photographers, climbers and freeriders. The first are delighted with the majestic beauty of these places, the second strive to conquer the mountain peaks, on which the snow never melts, and the third - to go down from these peaks on skis and snowboards.

The Adyl-Su gorge is located in Kabardino-Balkaria and belongs to the Elbrus region - an area where almost every fan dreams of visiting skiing not to mention freeriders and heli-ski fans. For them, Adyl-Su is of particular interest - the number of mountain peaks with untouched "powder" is in the tens, the snow on their slopes lies until the summer, and the length of the descent can reach 6 km. Among the numerous routes laid along the Adyl-Su gorge, there are both very difficult and quite simple ones, including completely tourist ones that do not require special climbing skills or high skiing skills.

What else can you do in the Adyl-Su Gorge?

The list of additional services varies depending on the chosen place of residence. Most alpine camps offer entertainment familiar to many - sports grounds, equipment rental, gazebos for barbecue, saunas, excursions, and so on.

When does the ski season start in the Adyl-Su Gorge?

The duration of the season in the Adyl-Su gorge depends only on natural factors. Usually, enough snow for skiers falls by November, and you can ride in the mountains until summer. The climate in the gorge is quite mild, there are almost no serious frosts in winter and there are many sunny days, but in the mountains the situation is changing - the thermometer drops lower and lower, the avalanche danger is growing, so you should not go alone to conquer the mountains, there is a risk of not returning alive and healthy .

How to get to the Adyl-Su gorge?

First, you need to get to Nalchik or Mineralnye Vody, where planes from Moscow and other cities often fly. Then, take a bus to the village of Tereskol and get off after leaving the village of Elbrus, before reaching the village of Tegenekli. A good paved road leads to the gorge, along which you will have to walk to the desired camp. From Nalchik to the entrance to the gorge it takes about 2.5 hours, from Mineralnye Vody - about 3 hours.

By car from Nalchik along the A158 road to the turn into the gorge and further to the destination. From Mineralnye Vody, first go along the E50 highway, then turn onto A158 (in Baksan) and then move along the same route.

How much does it cost to stay in the Adyl-Su Gorge and where is the best place to stay?

There are no hotels in the usual sense of the word in the Adyl-Su gorge. It is proposed to live in alpine camps, where there are one or two capital buildings with amenities on the floor or even on the street. At the very beginning of the gorge, the Adyl-Su alpine camp is located; tourists are waiting for a 2-storey building with meals and double rooms for 1,500 rubles. per day. The next in the direction of travel is the Shkhelda alpine camp, where you can stay in a hotel, cottages, houses or tents.

The cost of living in "Shkhelda" starts from 1,800 rubles. (and food too). Similar prices are in the Elbrus camp, but the famous Dzhantugan has become the sports base of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman, so it is now problematic to stay there. Closest to the mountain peaks is the "Green Hotel" - a large clearing, from where climbing begins and where those who want to live as close to Nature as possible pitch tents.

At the turn to the Adyl-Su gorge, there are several more comfortable hotels with noticeably different prices. For example, the Sky Elbrus hotel offers 2-bed standard rooms for 7,800 rubles. per day, and in the hotel "Peak of Europe" a similar room costs from 1,100 rubles. and there are options with renting a bed for 400 rubles.

Right tributary of the Baksan River.

The Adyl-Su gorge departs from the Baksan gorge a little higher than the village of Elbrus. The beauty of the Adyl-Su gorge, its accessibility, the abundance of various mountain routes made it great place for mountaineering. There are four in the gorge: "Adyl-Su", "Shkhelda", "Elbrus" and "Dzhantugan". An asphalt road was laid from the mouth of the gorge to the Elbrus alpine camp; Soon after the camp, the road practically disappears, but some traces of it can be found right up to the former border post, which is approximately halfway from the "Dzhantugan" to the "Green Hotel".

The "Green Hotel" is an excellent flat meadow, where climbers and tourists usually stop. Here are the ruins of a small hut. A little higher, at the edge of the Dzhankuat glacier, there is a base for glaciologists.

The left tributary of the Adyl-Su River is the Shkhelda River, which flows through the Shkhelda Gorge and flows into the Adyl-Su just above the Shkhelda alpine camp. Along this gorge, the paths of approaches to the legendary peaks lead:,.

The peaks of the Adyl-Su gorge and the Shkhelda gorge:

(mountain range in the central part of the Greater Caucasus)

(4259 meters)

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(4710 meters)

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(4037 meters)

(4279 meters)

(4200 meters)

(4302 meters)

(3993 meters)

(3667 meters)

(4241 meters)

(3991 meters)

(3805 meters)

(3820 meters)

(3626 meters)

(3877 meters)

(4050 meters)

(PEAKS OF THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC)

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A long time ago I heard from my dad the magic, mysterious word "Shkhelda". I saw this mountain range in photographs, read about it and knew that despite its relatively low altitude (4100-4300 meters above sea level), it is even more difficult than Elbrus in terms of climbing. Shkhelda (translated from the Kabardino-Balkarian "lingonberries") you just need to see to understand that you are in love with her forever.

It is through the Adyl-Su gorge ("Red Water" in the lane from Turkic, or "Beautiful River" in the lane from Balkar) that you can get to Shkhelda and most of the alpine camps that survived in Kabardino-Balkaria after the collapse of the USSR (I don’t take calculation of "Bezengi" and "Ullu-Tau"). There are several of them - right at the turn in the gorge, 200 meters from the federal highway, the Adyl-Su mountain base, after 3 km - the Shkhelda mountain camp, even further - Dzhantugan. From this gorge, the road leads to the border with Georgia, so there is a border checkpoint along the way. We went to the "Shkhelda" alpine camp on the basis of our passports and Dasha's birth certificate, but in order to move on, we need a pass.

The Adyl-Su gorge is one of the most beautiful in the Elbrus region and is famous as the mecca of Soviet mountaineering. To see at least the main part of its beauty, you need fast transport, some money, and time (I think a couple of days, but this is offhand). We didn’t have all this, so all that we had in the half-day that remained before leaving for Nalchik was to walk along the path towards the Shkheldinsky massif. But even that was enough for us to want to come back.

View of the Baksan gorge from the Adyl-Su gorge.

Pine forest in Adyl-Su.

We turned into Adyl-Su immediately after, and spent the whole afternoon there. The asphalted road gradually gains height immediately starting from the turn from the federal highway, along it along the bank of the Adyl-Su river there is a hiking trail. The "Forest Fairy Tale" trail, which I mentioned above, passes right there. Starting in the park of the Elbrus village, it turns from the Baksan Gorge to Adyl-Su and passes through various natural attractions - you can admire mountain river, powerful pine trees, beautiful flowers, thickets of raspberries and lingonberries, huge mossy boulders, find out what birds live here and so on. For a long time we could not understand what kind of thoughtful signs ("Garden of Rocks", for example) accompany our path, until it dawned on us that we were walking along an ecological path. In my opinion, it is a great idea to show schoolchildren the beauty of their native land, instill a love for nature and take a walk in the fresh air for one.

It is not for nothing that the Adyl-Su river is nicknamed "red" - it is filled with narzans with a high iron content, which is why the stones at the bottom of the gorge have acquired a reddish hue. Several springs are encountered along the trail.

Brook along the way.

Memorial plaque about the deceased boy who died in the mountains (can be read, clickable).

A snowfield flowing directly across the road into the Adyl-Su River.

The road forks right after the checkpoint. The main one goes further, deeper into the gorge, and we turned right, to the Shkhelda alpine camp, which is located on the banks of the river of the same name and at the entrance to the gorge named after it. The mountain camp was not "dozing" at the moment of our arrival: it was deserted and quiet, and only a light at the entrance to the dining room illuminated a small circle on the concrete floor. From the window of the second floor, a peppy grandfather looked out.

Alpine camp does not work! he said. - The first race is only from May 15th.
- What can you see here in an hour and a half?
- Yes, Shkhelda, of course. No, you won’t reach the glacier, - the old man said, looking critically at our family. - You need a pass there, and you won’t have time in an hour. But you will see the mountain from afar.

Danya fulfills the norms of "TRP for dads".

Pull-ups with weighting in the form of a baby. It is complicated by the fact that it is necessary not to wake the child.

Danya as the devil.

Old-school equipment hung on a boulder in an alpine camp - probably to teach or inspire ungrateful descendants.

The path from the alpine camp turns sharply into the Shkhelda gorge and passes in some places through rather obscure places for passing them with a child - there are unpleasant cliffs. The trail is very well trodden (still, so many generations of climbers have passed here), but we came across a section with a snowfield flowing into the river, we had to go along it. The vegetation changes dramatically - from the dense pine forest the path breaks out into the open space above the forest zone, there are already crooked birches and thorny bushes. The slopes are prone to avalanches. There are constantly signs in memory of the dead climbers - many were taken by Ushba, the routes to which also begin here.

A cliff along the edge of which the path passes. Below the river Shkhelda.

On the path.

Snowdrop flowing into Shkhelda.










First view of Shkhelda.

A fat slug that crawled across our path.

The rhododendron has not bloomed yet.

Commemorative plaques.

Grandpa was right. We did not reach the glacier in an hour and a half, but according to the map, it was not that far from us. We ran into a sign "Stop!", immediately after which the path dived into a cliff, and then again rose steeply on its other side. The control time for turning back is 19:00, the clock is already 19:20, the sun is setting, and we are still having a snack and taking pictures. Dasha woke up after a long trip and walks with "legs", there is no time for exploits and forced marches.

Here we followed the recommendations of the stand and stopped.

From afar, we could see only part of the Shkhelda massif, but the unexpectedly fine weather more than compensated for everything. Every line on the snow-white sheet of steep walls was visible, graceful curves, toothy peaks against the blue sky. Shkhelda is indeed a beauty. Words cannot convey this, and my photographs very, very remotely reflect reality. Just go there, you won't regret it.

The couloir that blocked our path behind a sign. We decided not to go any further.

You can read more about the sights of the Adyl-Su gorge at the link.

Epilogue

Of course, we didn't have enough time. Of course, you can get stuck in the Elbrus region - sometimes for a lifetime, it is so attractive. If you make a request "attractions of the Elbrus region", helpful Google or Yandex will give out a lot of links for every taste - for lovers of skiing, and for lovers of mountaineering, and just trekking, and for lovers of mineral springs and historical monuments, for lovers of botany and biology, glaciology and geology, for children, adolescents, adults, pensioners. But I would like to end with this.

I would like to remind you that despite the accessibility, the Elbrus region is a national park, and a certain regime of nature management, or rather, even nature conservation, is established by law here. An environmental fee (50 rubles or so) is paid for being present in the park, but this does not help save it from the onslaught of civilization and the carelessness of people.

When you come here by car, you rush along the beautiful banks of the Baksan, admiring the peaks and admiring the views from the window. But if you walk, then you see that the river banks, and sometimes the slopes of the mountains, are simply littered with garbage - beer cans, napkins, bottles, plastic, even toilet bowls (!). I consider it barbaric to come / come to national park, yes, in general, anywhere, and leave behind at least a piece of paper.

Elbrus is not just a national park. This is the place where mountains live and where you can not only see them, but also feel them. Therefore, please, when going on a date to the mountains, behave politely and try to take care of them.