Photos: the Caucasus Mountains, including the Malka River and Lake Donguzorunkel
Autumn rains swell part of the Malka River in a waterfall pouring through a gap in the Caucasus Mountains near Mt. Elbrus, Russia in this October 2006 photo.
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Base camp along in the marshy shores of Lake Donguzorunkol in Russia's Caucasus Mountains, along the Russian-Georgian border in this Oct. 2006 photo.
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Author Mike Eckel hikes up a late autumn mountainside meadow climbing toward the Kyrtykaush Pass in Russia's Caucasus Mountains in this Oct. 2006 photo.
(AP Photo/Ben Yeomans)
Author Mike Eckel hikes along the Islamchat River in Russia's Caucasus Mountains in this Oct. 2006 photo.
(AP Photo/Ben Yeomans)
A cross erected by Russian border guards in honor of fallen comrades looks over Lake Donguzorunkel in the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian-Georgian border in this Oct. 2006 photo.
(AP Photo/Ben Yeomans)
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