Why go
Lekhziri is Georgia's largest glacier in the southern Greater Caucasus, a sprawling 11-kilometer ice massif that spills from the 4,000-meter peaks of the Svaneti Range. Its name derives from the Svan word for 'place of ice,' and for centuries it has governed the hydrology of these valleys, feeding the Inguri River that powers one of the world's highest arch dams. The glacier's compound structure—multiple tributary ice streams converging into a broad tongue—creates a dynamic, fractured landscape of seracs and crevasses. Mountaineers know it as a serious objective requiring technical skill, while trekkers on the Koruldi ridge witness its scale from a respectful distance, the ice catching alpenglow while church towers glint below in Mestia.