The conquest of Mount Mashuk.

      City beauties Pyatigorsk received me and my father in one of their sanatoriums, for recovery. All the prescribed procedures, we managed to pass before lunch and the second half of the day remained on sightseeing, one of them perhaps the largest is Mount Mashuk. Its height is 993 meters and it was formed by gradually raising the cooling lava. Here one day and we decided to climb it.

 So she looks from far away, from the windows of our sanatorium.

So already, if you come closer

Before climbing, the traveler can drink mineral water in a similar source, completely free of charge. The taste is of course an amateur.

We also met at the bottom of the map with the routes, it is clear that the minimum route is 10 km, but if we went around it before the ascent, we had no such plans, we do not go around just up.

In general, on Mashuk, in addition to the pedestrian and road, there is a cable car and the process of picking up is noticeably accelerating, but at that moment when we were in Pyatigorsk it was closed for repairs, probably not the season. Yes, and would not go on it anyway, so uninteresting.

Here on such a pedestrian path we began the ascent

We were told that this is the "Gate of the Sun"

After them, the pedestrian and automobile roads join together.

Also there is an excellent view of the mountain Beshtau

Here in such conditions there grow trees

Well, here it is the result of a two-hour rise - the panorama of Pyatigorsk

I apologize for Google translator.