From the lake up into the hills, heading north. A climb to one of the oldest ski resorts of its kind. From Lake Garda at just 65 meters above sea level to a mountain pass 1,600 meters higher.

An extinct volcano, the third-highest mountain in Georgia, the seventh-highest in the Caucasus, the place where the mythical Prometheus was chained, one of the most visited five-thousanders, and the dominant feature of the view from the village of Stepantsminda. All of this can be claimed by Mount Kazbek (5,054 m) in northern Georgia.