Karachay horse due place being mentioned in the State stud books and official lists of species of the USSR and Russia in the 1990s. In 1998 a group of Karachay-Cherkessiya`s horsemen with three Karachay horses ascended the east top of the mountain Elbrus, making an unprecedented act. In 1999 the horsemen ascended west top of the highest mountain in Europe. The Karachay horses' is thus strong with strong and adapted limbs to climbing mountains. Special credit goes to an expert on horse breeding named Klych Geriy Urusov who was the mastermind of Elbrus conquest on horseback. At the present time Karachay horse
Elbrus Race Khrichtchatyi and Alexandr Sheynov) the first Elbrus Race — from Priut 11 till the col. September was chosen with a special reason – it is the best season here. There is no ice on the route usually in September, and the whole way to the tops is often safer than in other seasons. Next Elbrus Race was in 1990. Anatoly Boukreev was a legend of that races — he won in 1990 — and his result was 1 hour 47 min (Priut 11 — East top). Unfortunately Vladimir Balyberdin was killed in car accident at 1994, then one by one