Gorge of the Adyl-Su river

The gorge of the river Adyl-Su is divided into two parts in the shape of a horseshoe. One part was formed by the Adyl-Su River, and the other by the Shkhelda River. Both rivers are about the same in fullness. Their sources are glaciers in the mountains of the Greater Caucasus Range. The Shkhelda mountaineering camp, one of the oldest mountaineering schools in the Soviet Union, was built near the confluence of two rivers in 1946.