"Morning Post "| The Scientific Expedition To The Caucasus (Thursday 29 October 1829)

[Circassian World Newsletter]

Khilar Khashirov is the first man in the world who climbed to the top of mt #Elbrus without special training. He was a guide for Imperial Russian army scientific expedition led by General Georgi Emmanuel. Khachirov's nationality is claimed both by Kabardians and Karachays. Georgi Emanuel's biographer Prince Golitsyn, identified Khilar specifically as a Circassian from the region of Kabarda. [Zhizneopisannie Generela ot Kavalerii Emanuelya (Life-Sketches of the Cavalry General Emanuel), Moscow, 1851] but Turkic tribesmen claim him as ethnically one of their own.

 

A detailed research about it can be read in Russian at: http://www.mountain.ru/article/article_display1.php?article_id=4233 “Восхождение на Эльбрус в 1829 году. Архивные материалы.”

 

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"Morning Post " (London, England)

The Scientific Expedition To The Caucasus (Thursday 29 October 1829)

 

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