The Darial Gorge is a river gorge on the border between Russia and Georgia. It is at the east base of Mount Kazbek, south of present-day Vladikavkaz. The gorge was carved by the river Terek, and is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) long. The steep granite walls of the gorge can be as much as 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) tall in some places. The Georgian Military Road runs through the gorge.
Darial Gorge near Georgia–Russia border.
The pass in Luigi Villari's book Fire and Sword in the Caucasus (1906).
Looking north along the gorge (8km south of the Russian checkpoint in North Ossetia–Alania).
Mount Kazbek or Mount Kazbegi is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus, located in Georgia, just south of the border with Russia.
Mount Kazbek
19th-century postcard of the Georgian Military Road near Mount Kazbegi
Mount Kazbek from the outside of the Gergeti Trinity Church
Crevasses of the Gergeti Glacier