This mountain is very popular among tourists who come for medical treatment in Kieslovodsk. Everyone who can make any trip around the outskirts of Kislovodsk, stop with the one that goes to Bermamut, so that they can see from this mountain. Elborus at sunrise. Elevated to 8500 ft. above sea level almost 1000 feet. above the surrounding
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Due to its extreme snowiness, Bermamut is already located in the foreground of the Alshi zone, and therefore it is always, even in the middle of June, damp, cold, shrouded in cloudy fogs or overwhelmed by strong winds. Its top is completely open on all sides. From the north, from where you rise imperceptibly and look at it, it slopes slightly, but from the south, towards Elborus, it ends with a steep slope, the view from which is one of the most spectacular in the Caucasus, since it ends on the horizon with a snow line and Elborus. There is absolutely no place to shelter from bad weather while standing on its mavushEF. LFT ten years ago, one enterprising director of the Pyatigorek Bank, Avulovsky, built a hotel there, considering quite thoroughly that at the present time it would not be empty, but, unfortunately, the collapse of the bank happened, a welf child of Akulovsky’s tolerance for people unworthy, and the built hotel was sold at auction, so that in At present, on Bermamut, all that remains of it are small—one and a half arshin—stone walls, behind which it is often necessary to bake protection from the icy cold of the women who come here from Kievodsk. And there are a lot of after-days. On some days, up to a dozen carriages will arrive here at once, each of which carries 4-5 passengers. People only come here in the late afternoon to see one of the most beautiful pictures of the Caucasus, spread out at the feet of a tourist from Bermamut along a huge valley, cut by deep gullies in two directions: to the west and east and washed out on the southern horizon by a snowy line of mountains with Elborus at the head. This is the description of this picture, made by those who came here, as it usually happens, at night to see the sunrise: “the darkness of the night, when the ray of light slides over the face of the sleeping giant, the entire foothills wakes up, and you see how, in the midst of the fog and darkness of the night, enveloping everything vast space, rise one by one, move towards you and gradually fill the entire huge and deep valley that lies between you and Elborus, like some vague masses, the existence of which you did not suspect until the first glimpses of the dawn. That abyss at your feet, which was filled until now with some kind of turbidity, is now broken up by majestic, strange, fantastic, tempting, and sometimes with completely comical outlines of stone cliffs that loom larger and larger as the brow of their snowy ruler becomes clearer. The valley lies between Bermamut and Elborus stretches for more than 30 vertas, and you, standing on the peaks of Bermamut, only from the stone masses placed along the bottom of it, can you guess about the depths of this lowland, in which people and herds are diminished to such an extent that you even notice their movement only by changes in the direction of other objects. You have to be and stand over the abyss at the southern end of Bermamut so that you never forget those feelings! complete helplessness and depression that engulf you with an involuntary comparison passing through your consciousness.” *).
But it is not always possible to see the described panorama. The local sun does not always pamper tourists; Incomparably more often, the latter experience rain, damp fog and strong winds, which prevail on the open mountain almost all day at temperatures of 1-2 degrees, and sometimes lower, which makes staying here unbearable.
During our trade trip through Bermamut, it was so windy and cold that we were unable to stay long at the very top of the mountain and hastened to descend a little lower into the gap between two lavender spurs, called the “first” and “second” Bermamut. Here, to protect from the wind, a parking lot was set up for preparing lunch, in anticipation of which we began collecting luxurious alpine vegetation, which is why we actually headed to the mountains.