{"id":28655,"date":"2017-08-21T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/sovety-turistu\/o-vershinah-kavkaza-pshish-i-sofiya.html"},"modified":"2017-08-21T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:01:05","slug":"o-vershinah-kavkaza-pshish-i-sofiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/sovety-turistu\/o-vershinah-kavkaza-pshish-i-sofiya","title":{"rendered":"About the peaks of the Caucasus. Pshish and Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/23ee3e515eca89d333754b13dd8effba.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today is a big post, and geographically the most &quot;western&quot; one at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The word Arkhyz is familiar to many at least by the name of the mineral water; some have been there directly. Arkhyz is the most beautiful corner of the Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia, there are many beautiful peaks there, worthy of a list, but as &quot;representatives&quot; of the region I chose its highest point - the Pshish peak (3790 m) and the most famous mountain - Sofia (3637 m).<\/p>\n<p>The Pshish peak from the Psysh valley.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7f3bcbe28d700678dc825b510c557b0c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pshish from the Sekirtme Valley.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/39fc29de5f9705e394394f8341adcb3c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The same view at dawn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/a5e38152409770986e9fb5e2beabc91f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Behind the sharp peak of Tokmak, in the distance on the right is Pshish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2b0164fcf268ecd2fca176e3b8a922c2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pshish in all its glory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1ec5690f244247b128e0b7f6755297b3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A closer view from the Karadzhash Pass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/38a7a8b5b5fbe0d2c2267bb77a522523.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A more general view from the Karadzhash Pass. On the left is Pshish, to the right are other peaks of Arkhyz, on the right is a crater lake. Arkhyz is the region with the most lakes in the Caucasus. Along with Gvandra and Teberda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bc8ecd7adba66f8bf6e6ce56745321f9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#039;s cross the Sofia peak. Here it is from the Marukhsky glacier, i.e. from far away from the east, at sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/d08ba9724f4b1d75624b1ca27662fd3f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View from the Sofia Valley. The famous Sofia Waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0c16b0b409b3fc13829c49da4b54a291.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The famous Sofia lakes at the Irkiz pass. Sofia is in the distance on the right. View from the top of Mingkeulbashi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7eecc3879b8711f5c3d2192fc28595eb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sofia peak, Kozhukhov pass (2A), West Sofia glacier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7b8f432eba5c33562043d453629e6a33.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Northern walls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/038cbd0fbbdefa7e7fb63672c90f0505.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sofia at sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/79ac315fc53bf861428cda5eb06320e8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View from the south, from the Chuchkhur Pass. Below are the Green Lakes, which, however, look blue from this point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7fcac84261d4b3be557bbdce511568be.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mg5642.livejournal.com\/59039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[List of all 100 peaks of the Caucasus + interactive map]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/reports.travel.ru\/reports\/2017\/08\/249658.html?utm_source=generic.tmpl&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a long post, and geographically, the most &quot;western&quot; one at the moment. The word Arkhyz is familiar to many, at least by the name of the mineral<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sovety-turistu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}