Samocherkhola

Samocherkhola stands on the main Egrisi crest, on the boundary between Chkhorotsku and Mestia municipalities, with the small Kasleti lake (about 2,805 m) in the cirque just north-west of the summit. We found no trip report, guidebook entry or operator offering an ascent, so this line is an outline built from the nearest documented trail and the OSM map, not a described route. The approach follows the Tobavarchkhili–Khaishi trek in reverse (Caucasus-Trekking, 2025): from Khaishi in the Enguri valley a dirt road runs up the Khaishura valley past Kveda Vedi and Zeda Vedi, then a muddy path with three fords leads past the Gvandra shepherd's hut to a meadow camp just below the Natakhtash-Dudi Pass (2,770 m). That is about 27 km and 2,200 m of ascent, a long day or more realistically a day and a half. The pass itself is reached by a steep, trackless side ridge. From the pass the crest runs east-south-east over Kundakhari (2,910 m), drops to the Kaleta saddle (2,688 m) and climbs over a 3,091 m top to the summit, roughly 4.5 km with some 700 m of ascent. Expect rough, rocky ground and probable scrambling; the grade given here is an estimate. Snow lies on the north side into July. Return the same way, or descend to the Kaleta saddle and down to the Tobavarchkhili lakes to the south-west.