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The view from a Border Police Helicopter over the Greater Caucasus mountains in the Republic of Georgia.

The view from a Border Police Helicopter over the Greater Caucasus mountains in the Republic of Georgia, during a routine flight to rotate a border police contingent at an outpost in the remote montane region of Tusheti. The road through the pass, the highest in the Caucasus at an elevation of 2850m, is impassable for seven months of the year, during which time infrequent helicopter flights provide Tusheti's only physical link to the outside world. Flights are heavily weather dependent, as the pass cannot be flown in poor visibility.