In relation to adult people, a difficult journey is the best measure of perseverance and endurance of character and willpower, as well as the presence in a person of sublime feelings that can manifest themselves from great forces and objects of nature and in general in serious cases of life. “A person is learned on the way,” says popular wisdom, and he says it absolutely rightly. That is why, we repeat, we can readily recommend traveling from Kislovodsk to the mountains,
from: ME
since it is sure to make everyone experience a lot and feel strongly and give the opportunity to test themselves.
There are two ways to travel from Kieslovodek. One is to hire riding horses and people for meth in Kislovodsk.” But this method is not suitable for wefkh; even for those who can Fedit on horseback, it is difficult to decide on this, since it is clear that the mounted Fzlda is generally the heaviest Fzda, if it lasts for a long time, even for seshalistov and when the path is convenient. In addition, riding horses and people taken from Kislovodsk are suitable for climbing high mountains and will always cost more than those that can be found there in the mountains from among the local residents, to whom in any case you will have to resort, since there will always be either an insufficient number of transport vehicles or the people taken to Kieslovodek are unaware of the roads in the mountains, although when hiring you they will deny otherwise. That is why we recommend the second method, which is that you can hire a dray in Kislovodsk, on which you can drive up to the steepest mountains by the end of the second day, in good weather. Riding on wheels is in any case convenient and hidden, and on horseback; In addition, this will give you the opportunity to stock up on large luggage and food supplies and, finally, will allow you to return from the mountains quickly, having traveled about 75-50 times downhill, within one day, which in no case can be done on horseback. In view of this, we preferred the second siosob, and therefore for a company of 5 people we took two drogues, paying 5 rubles for each drogue. per DAY.
July 21st, in the morning, we made our departure to the poop in the direction of Bermamut. The road gradually climbed uphill and towards the end of the evening, due to rainy weather, without reaching the top of the mountain, we descended into the deep Eshkakon gully (or Grishkina gully), where there was a shelter under the roof of the rock, on the river that had recently been built. The overnight stay was extremely inconvenient, due to two reasons; firstly, the bed had to be made directly on the sheep dung, covered with fresh grass and covered with half-raw grass; secondly, the cold, thick fog, interspersed with rain, forced the people to huddle and huddle in the dark room, so that some of the more compliant ones, giving it to others, did not sleep all night. At night the guides
Ours were the first to witness what happened, something that is still common in these cities, just as it usually was 25-30 years ago. The fact is that near our overnight stay there runs along the Eshkakon gully a little-known trail leading from Kabarda to Karachay, that is, from the Malki valley to the Kuban valley, over a space of 30-40 versts. Along this trail, at midnight, one Karachay was driving a couple of boats, apparently stolen from the Kabardians. While guarding their horses, the guides saw the Tatar with the bulls and had no doubt that the bulls were stolen. One of them directly and bluntly asked the owner of the mine:
- Hey, I know you! Why are you bulls karaichi, (i.e. stole)?
But he pretended to not hear and not understand anything and, as always happens, he tried, despite the fog and slush, to go through an unexpected and, without a doubt, little-too-dangerous wind for him with the Russians. It really turned out that it was. vorovetvo; but when on the third day in the Kuban the thief was overtaken, they had to get only one ox from him, and the other was already sold for slaughter for meat and eaten. {
At dawn we all got up, and while the guides were preparing tea, one of those present tried to kill with a gun a wild pigeon, which had trustingly approached its treacherous guest and paid with death for its gullibility.
It is remarkable that the presence of wild pigeons at high altitudes (up to 7-8 thousand feet) of the Caucasus Mountains is always determined by the distribution of calcareous rocks; Pigeons are not found in stones of a different composition, because only calcareous rocks have large cracks and various kinds of depressions that are convenient for nesting.
At about 7 am we, not waiting for the fog to end, set off, slowly moving up the mountain to Bermamut, the top of which we reached just before 11 o’clock.