The mountain may be climbed by the northeast ridge route beginning from the village Yukarı Kavrun.

The name Kaçkar (from Armenian khachkar (Խաչքար)[3] literally meaning "cross stone"[4]) may be used in various senses.

The Turkish coastal cities Rize and Trabzon are about 70 and 120 km west of the mountain.

This extends about 1000 km along the Black Sea and with its numerous parallel chains, which reach up to 200 km inland, belongs to the Alpine orogeny, i.e., developed at the same time as the Alps.

The closest three-thousanders are To the south runs the valley of the Çoruh, which flows into the Black Sea at Batumi.