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The Crew: Second Self-Guided group of the season: Gustav, Johan, Claes, and Hans, from Sweden. Impressive how quickly these guys pulled the trigger on this trip! Tickets were booked not far off from Christmas and just over 2 weeks later they were here in Kyrgyzstan for 4 days of ski touring from the yurt and [...]

The Crew: Our first official Self-Guided group: Friends of friends from France, one of whom, Nico, skied with us here in Kyrgyzstan last winter not long after the yurt site was first established. Nico contacted me back in the summer to say there wasn’t any other way they would rather start the New Year than [...]

It’s difficult to describe what exactly is happening over here – What we’re pulling off, where we’re doing it, who’s involved, what culture surrounds us, what our daily sights, experiences and interactions are like, what we’re getting up to in them thar hills. Pictures should help: Photo Gallery 2011-12

If geeking out on avy bulletins and detailed weather forecasts is your thing, be prepared to be underwhelmed when you land in Kyrgyzstan! There are obvious downfalls to the lack of information, but it does force you to make decisions based strictly on personal observations, and that’s better than relying 100% on any forecast. Below [...]

Can’t tell you how stoked we are to take this year’s Backcountry Film Festival all the way to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in December! Last year we had the pleasure of attending a local snowboard club’s premiere of their very own homegrown snowboard film. It was humorous at times, painful at others, and way too long in [...]

40 Tribes is all over BCA’s 2011-12 catalog! Check out pgs 2-3, 16-17, and 18-19 below. No doubt we are stoked to see more and more captions reading “Location: Kyrgyzstan” across many of our sponsors’ catalogs. In our opinion, it’s about time we see an increasing number of images from far-out places like KGZ vs [...]

If you are seriously thinking about coming to ski with us this winter, chances are you’ll be stoked to study these maps alongside the recent photos posted. To give them some context: The summit just S/SE of the yurt in the first map is the summit in the center of this image. The summit (in [...]

October 25 and the mountains behind our partner village, Ichke Jergez, are CAKED!!! Here are a couple of amazing pics of the village and backdrop from afar. 40 Tribes’ Jalpak Tash Yurt is located more or less in the center of the first image. The second is of Kerege-Tash (3,700m), the most prominent summit seen [...]