Alissa Klots

Aug 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Tom Parfitt |Maria Lipman |Tom Parfitt Headline |Alissa Klots

In This Review In This Review High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted HinterlandParfitt, a British journalist, has been haunted by nightmares since covering the horrific hostage crisis in Beslan in North Ossetia in 2004, when a rebel attack on a school led to the deaths of over 330 people, most of them children. Four years later, he undertook a months-long hiking trip through the Russian North Caucasus.