Nature · Mkinvartsveri / Kazbegi · Caucasus summit section
Mount Kazbek: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Kazbek uses an approximately 5,025-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,166 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,025 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Mkinvartsveri / Kazbegi · Caucasus summit section
- In feet, rounded
- 16,487 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 5025.2 m at 42.696944°, 44.518056°.
- Local base
- 1859.7 m at 42.721667°, 44.585556°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 44.451528°, east 44.585694°; south 42.665417°, north 42.728472°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 22.8 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
A little more perspective
Georgia’s national tourism site lists Mount Kazbegi, also called Mkinvartsveri, at 5,054 meters above sea level. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 5,025 meters in EGM2008 near the selected summit coordinate. The bounded snow-and-ice surface does not claim present-day glacier conditions. Its lowest sample defines a local-relief reference, without treating the nearby settlement of Stepantsminda as the mountain’s base.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1859.7 meters at 42.721667° latitude, 44.585556° longitude. This produces about 3,166 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Mount Kazbek uses an approximately 5,025-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,166 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Georgia Travel: Mount Kazbegi / Mkinvartsveri
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Kazbek, Kazbegi and Mkinvartsveri identify this selected mountain. The 5,054-meter tourism listing is independent of its approximately 5,025-meter modeled summit.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.