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Why we started go2mountains

  1. 1

    2022 · Returned to Kyrgyzstan to get married

    It was one of the hardest yet most honest moments of our lives. In the countryside, in front of the mountains, we held a wedding that challenged tradition.

  2. 2

    Two years in the pandemic

    Stranded in Thailand for two years, filming and editing with almost no income—we kept sharing Kyrgyzstan because that was our channel’s original purpose.

  3. 3

    Between mountains and family

    No pomp, just mountains, family, and the ground under our feet—a memory that made us sure we should keep telling this place honestly.

  4. 4

    No business plan, only heart

    We had no blueprint for a travel company, no business model—only a desire to show the Kyrgyzstan we love in the most genuine, unpolished way.

  5. 5

    How go2mountains grew

    After uncertainty and lows, we realized this path is about sharing a way of life, values, and trust. That’s how go2mountains slowly took shape.

Bek with a golden eagle and family in the Kyrgyz steppe
Bek’s story

It began by leaving the mountains

When I was ten, a riding accident kept me in the hospital for nearly a year. While the mountain horses ran free, I lay still—learning patience and resilience, and realizing how precious it is simply to walk, move, and feel alive.

After I recovered, life changed. I was no longer as free as before, and I began to wonder if I could ever return to that fearless kid. So I chose the hardest path—learning Chinese and leaving Kyrgyzstan.

I earned a scholarship and lived in Shanghai, Bangkok, and Taiwan for nearly ten years. Those years helped me grow, but they were also a kind of escape. Eventually I found the confidence to come home and saw clearly that most people know little about Kyrgyzstan—and places where horses can roam vast mountain valleys are becoming rare.

This journey is what brought us to where we are today.

Bek and Ruby walking hand in hand in traditional Kyrgyz clothes
Ruby's story

Our story began between two worlds.

For ten years I worked while traveling—drawn to books, mountains, old adventurers’ stories, and distant peaks. When Bek said “Kyrgyzstan,” I knew nothing about it, only that I had to see it. The first time I arrived—meeting his family, riding horses, reaching a 3,000m alpine lake, drinking hot tea in a nomad home—I felt the world become real and finally stopped rushing to the next place.

We stayed because Kyrgyzstan helped us find ourselves again. Bek returned to the high mountains and horseback; Ruby found a rhythm and a place her spirit belongs; together we found the strength to keep going. This land offered no standard answers—only a direction: inward, toward the heart, toward something more real.

Thank you, Kyrgyzstan. You didn’t rush us or demand we become anyone else—you simply let us breathe again. We chose to stay, to film, and to share this warmth, hoping that one day, on a journey of your own, the world will gently catch you too.

Today, we share Kyrgyzstan with the world.

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