Elbrus Race Elbrus Race The Elbrus Race (or RedFox Elbrus Race), is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2008. It runs every year in Mount Elbrus, (Russia). which with its 5.642 m is the highest mountain in Europe, in May. The race was four times valid for the Skyrunner World Series circuit. <nowiki>*</nowiki>"record of the race" In the Soviet period speed ascent competitions on Elbrus slopes — from Mir station till Garabashi station and from Priut 11 till the col — were the part of training program for the members of the soviet Himalaya expeditions (1982, 1989). Elbrus
Mount of Transfiguration century "Transitus Beatae Mariae Virginis". Mount Hermon (2814 metres or 9,232 feet high), was suggested by R. H. Fuller and J. Lightfoot for two reasons: It is the highest in the area (and the Transfiguration took place on "an high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)), and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place. Other locations which have been proposed include: one of the Horns of Hattin by R.W. Stewart (1857), Gebel Germaq (1208m) 5 km SW of Safed, by W. Ewing (1906), Tel El-Ahmar (1452m) on Jabal al-Druze by Gustav Dalman (1924), and Mount