Feel good story of Swiss ski instructors providing aid to Kyrgyzstan by training local instructors in the art of teaching skiing. Members from the Swiss canton of Graubünden ski school went on a week long goodwill mission to lend their knowledge ski professionals in the emerging resort destination of Karakol, in north-eastern Kyrgyzstan. Always nice to give a leg up to a fellow mountain profession. Awesome story!

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