Why go
Latpari Pass is the historic 2,830-meter saddle that once formed the only summer link between Upper Svaneti's Ushguli communities and Lentekhi in Kvemo Svaneti. Before the Enguri Dam flooded the old Khaishi-Lentekhi road in the 1970s, this was the primary route for trade, marriage alliances, and seasonal migration between Svaneti's upper and lower worlds. The trail still follows ancient shepherd paths past abandoned seasonal settlements, where stone milk platforms and collapsed corrals testify to centuries of transhumance. Today it remains one of Georgia's most demanding multi-day treks—three to four days of unmarked wilderness crossing the Greater Caucasus watershed, with no rescue infrastructure and only the company of wolves, bears, and the occasional Laz shepherd bound for alpine pastures. The reward is solitude absolute and the rare crossing of a living mountain frontier.