What is about safety in the region? Does war in Iraq affect local situation?
It is safe region. There were never problems regarding terrorism in Elbrus area (Baksan Valley). MinVody is less safe because of airport but normally no reason to stay there more than 10 minutes. Look at our web info site www.elbrus.org You can find there our common position about safety in region (F.A.Q. section), current events (in News section) and comments from us and from people in Forum section. Elbrus area is a ski resort. Every season more than 50000 people come there and several thousands from them are foreigners. Last year our company had more than 500 customers for Elbrus climb tours. I estimate the total rise of travel industry (including foreigners) in the region as 15% every year since 1999. About Iraq. Russia does not fight in that war and we see no effect on Elbrus region. The problem may be when Iraq collapses after war into new Afghanistan. In this case Russia and Europe may have problems in future but not now. Same questions were about Afghanistan. We have problems i
