7th season 2024-2025, best place around Almaty

Experience Alatau Backcountry Yurt lodge

Winter tours

Backcountry Yurt Lodge

First discovered by our team the beginning of Karsh range in Turgen Valley is perfect for freeride and has it all! Tree skiing, nice touring terrain, no people, a lot of snow, and even more!

Booking is open for 2024-2025 season.

1-day backcountry tours

One day or multi-day guided backcountry tours. Experience classical freeride lines near Almaty city in big mountains of Ili-Alatau.

Resort freeride

If you plan to visit Almaty and explore the region for skiing or snowboarding opportunities we can provide you a guiding services. No need for booking, flexible dates are possible. Shymbulak, Ak-Bulak, Oi-Karagay

Spring – Summer tours

Molodezhniy peak

Big mountain freeride

Explore amazing cirques of Tuyk-su and Bogdanovich glaciers. Accomodation in high altitude stationary camps 3200+ meters / 10000+ feets above sea level.

Seasons:

  • Late April – June (July, varies from year to year)
  • late August/September – October

Heli-skiing

We glad to invite a groups of advanced skiers and snowboarders in our heliskiing program.

Booking is open for 2024-2025 season.

Ski-tour guiding in Almaty

Trekking

If you plan to visit Almaty and explore the region for skiing or snowboarding opportunities we can provide you a guiding services. No need for booking, flexible dates are possible.

Jeep tours

Visit wild and wonderful places in Almaty region like Charyn, “Singin Barchan”, Lake Kaindy and others.
Best season option – summer.

Our team consists of pioneers of freeride skiing/snowboarding movement in Kazakhstan. You may check out the nice guidebook for Trans-Ili Alatau mountains near Almaty that was carefully gathered for many years of hard labor.

You also may be interested by our another project – powder.kz. You may find a lot about our trips and achievements.

We would love to meet all the people who also passionate about mountains and snow. Our goal is to bring you a maximum pleasure of freeride and powder skiing / snowboarding / ski-touring in mountains!

Evgeniy Degtyarov

Evgeniy Degtyarov

Guide

Backcountry guide
Ski-Patroller / AV Safety
Ski Racer grade
Freeride instructor

Igor Podgurskiy

Igor Podgurskiy

Guide

30+ backcountry skiing experience
Backcountry guide
TD+ ski grade
First descents in local mountains
Fast and light ski touring

Nikolay Romanov

Nikolay Romanov

Heliskiing expert

40+ places worldwide
Heliskiing expert 20+ years
Avalanche safety engineer