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Gergeti Trinity Church on its ridge above Stepantsminda, sunrays breaking through cloud, Mount Kazbek implied in weather.

THE VERTICAL COUNTRY

Black Sea to 5,047 m. One country.

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Batumi skyline on the Black Sea at day, glass towers along the curve of the Adjara coast. Batumi skyline at night, the same coast become abyss and gold windows.
ALTITUDE
0
M · BLACK SEA
ბათუმი / აჭარა

WHERE THE MOUNTAINS FINALLY REST.

Adjara. The country lies down for a single night beside warm water, then stands up again.

SLEEP BY THE ABYSS →
Aerial of Kakheti vineyards in long parallel rows, the Alazani valley floor held between pale mountains. Close harvest of dark Saperavi grapes, bloom still on the skin.
ALTITUDE
500
M · KAKHETI
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THE WINE EARTH

WE BURIED THE FIRST WINE SO IT WOULD NEVER FORGET THE EARTH.

Eight thousand years under clay. . . so dark it reads as night. Kakheti is not a wine region. It is the reason the word exists.

TASTE THE GROUND → OPEN THE CELLAR
Gergeti Trinity Church isolated against a hard blue sky, stone and tile, no people.
GERGETI TRINITY
2,170 M
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Vardzia cave monastery cut as a dark honeycomb into a sheer cliff of tuff.
VARDZIA
1,300 M
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Svan defensive towers standing in front of the Caucasus wall, village at their feet.
USHGULI / SVANETI
2,100 M
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THE CHURCHES THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST.

They are not monuments. They are how stone decided to pray. Gergeti in cloud. Vardzia in a cliff. Towers in Svaneti that outlived the weather that was sent to erase them.

ENTER THE STONE →
Mount Kazbek, a white pyramid above dark ridges, the summit catching weather. High Caucasus ridge in clear air, rock and residual snow, no road visible. Mestia at golden hour, towers and stone roofs under amber mountain light. Gudauri snow peaks, the ski line cut small against a blue-white wall.
ALTITUDE
5,047
M · KAZBEK
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THE WALL AT THE END OF EUROPE.

Kazbek. Shkhara. A border made of ice. In a single day’s drive the sea is a rumour and the air has less in it.

STAND ON THE WALL → FLY THE RIDGE
THE HUMAN SCALE
A Georgian supra table seen close: hands, bread, wine, the moment before a toast. No posed smiles.
A TAMADA RAISES A GLASS AGAINST FOUR THOUSAND METRES.
Tbilisi old town, carved wooden balconies and hanging laundry, a city arguing with its own hills.
THE CITY THAT NEVER FINISHED ARGUING WITH ITSELF.
Svaneti towers at golden hour, a figure-scale roof against the range.
A ROOF. A TOWER. A VOICE THAT CARRIES.

THE COUNTRY STANDS UP. SO DO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON IT.

A shepherd. A tamada. A woman singing from a tower roof. We do not show you visitors. We show you the scale at which a life is possible here.

TBILISI → THE TABLE, ELSEWHERE →

Georgia is the oldest wine culture on earth standing in front of the highest mountains in Europe, and it has already set a place for you.

MOVE THROUGH IT

DRAG THE COUNTRY BY ITS HEIGHT.

Helicopter. Horse. Night train. 4×4. A walk between vines. A bed in a Svan tower. Choose an altitude. The country comes to you.

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Batumi skyline on the Black Sea at day, glass towers along the curve of the Adjara coast.
Close harvest of dark Saperavi grapes, bloom still on the skin. Horses standing in deep Bakuriani snow, timber houses behind, breath in the air. Batumi skyline on the Black Sea at day, glass towers along the curve of the Adjara coast. Gergeti Trinity Church isolated against a hard blue sky, stone and tile, no people.
SEASONS AS CHARACTERS

THE SAME COUNTRY. FOUR DIFFERENT GRAVITIES.

The vines go first. Then the toasts. Then the mountains take the light away.

ALL WEATHER →
BEDS

SLEEP AT THE HEIGHT YOU JUST CROSSED.

Every reservation retires 1 tonne of CO₂ with working farmers through IMPT. Same price. No surcharge. The mountain does not need a green badge.

Caucasus ridge used as the door into the 3D terrain flythrough.
3D

PUT YOUR HAND ON THE COUNTRY.

A terrain flythrough of the Greater Caucasus. No chrome. Weather, relief, shadow. Opens as its own experience.

Caucasus ridge used as the door into the 3D terrain flythrough.
FLY THE CAUCASUS — BLACK SEA TO KAZBEK Sighnaghi from the air, walls and tiled roofs, door into relief.
ORBIT GEORGIA IN 3D