Armenians from the village of Burnashet in Georgia’s Samtskhe Javakheti province set off to climb Mount Ararat on Friday, August 3, as reported by Akhaltskha.net.

The group of 16 people is at 2941m height at the moment. Before starting the journey Artur Kocharyan told about the goals of the group: “Our group includes people of 14 to 58 years. We are joint by a single concept – to climb mount Ararat and set the Armenian flag on top of it, also the flags of Artsakh, Georgia and Russia.”