Driving through the beautiful, winding country lanes of Georgia’s remote, western Imereti region is an immensely pleasurable travel experience – but not one you’d immediately associate with religious ...

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Sitting atop a 130-foot stone pillar is the most remote and possibly the highest church in the world. For years mystery has surrounded the Katshki Pillar in Georgia as it remains unknown how the ...

Come summertime, getting away from it all is the dream that haunts everyone. One Georgian Orthodox monk, though, has come up with a plan for a lifetime of escape atop a 40-meter-high rock column in ...

Near the village of Katskhi in the Imereti region of western Georgia, there is a natural monolith of rock about 40 meters (131 feet) high known as the Katskhi Pillar. The first mention of it in ...

In Georgia's remote Imereti region, monks scale the 40m-high Katskhi Pillar in a daring, nerve-jangling ascent. The reason: to get closer to God. As I drove through the remote Imereti region of ...

Maxime Qavtaradze is literally close to the heavens. The 59-year-old monk lives atop a stone pillar in Georgia, scaling a 131-foot ladder in order to leave and enter his lofty home, reports CNN.

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Until, that is, you pass a hidden lane signposted with a picture of a church. This is the way to the Katskhi pillar — a natural limestone monolith that towers more than 130 feet, or 40 meters, into ...