
On the Roof of the World
(The view to inner Tusheti - the high Caucasus - from the Abano Pass. Our single-track road snakes through the foreground) I've never traveled a more dangerous road - and, having not yet journeyed the Andes, I've never enjoyed such a wondrous mountainscape as the one we experienced this week in Georgia's high northeast region of Tusheti, bordering Chechnya and the Russian Federation. (The Georgian flag flying at the top of the Tushetian village of Omalo, at nearly 6,000 feet