Built from expeditions and long-term mountain guiding

Backcountry trip design and guidebooks for winter mountain travel

For professional guides and advanced riders, Trip Design provides deeper preparation without requiring full daily local guiding.

One mountain project. Three ways to use it.

Still Wild Mountains brings together field research, route development, guidebooks, and practical mountain planning for winter travel across serious terrain.

GUIDEBOOKS

Field-based books built on real terrain knowledge, and guiding work. Working tools for deeper planning before arrival.

TRIP DESIGN

Individual backcountry trip planning for guides, riders, and private groups who need stronger structure before arrival.

EXPEDITIONS

Research-based journeys that open new regions and push the project forward through direct exploration.

Four ways to plan a mountain trip

From independent planning to full trip structure, Still Wild Mountains helps you choose the right level of support for the region, the group, and the objective.

PLAN IT YOURSELF

Maximum freedom, but also the highest number of blind spots – terrain, timing, access, snowpack, logistics, and local reality.

USE GUIDEBOOKS

A solid way to understand a region before arrival, compare routes, and build your own plan with better structure.

HIRE A LOCAL GUIDE

Full field leadership and local presence, but higher cost and less independence for strong groups or professional guides.

REQUEST TRIP DESIGN

A custom trip structure built from terrain, timing, logistics, route options, and realistic movement – without turning every day into a fully guided package.

Project Geography

Today the project works across three mountain regions – Georgia, Turkey, and the Indian Himalayas. Over time, this geography will expand through new expeditions and collaboration with experts who know their regions deeply.

Big Caucasus terrain with practical access and real mountain depth.

GEORGIA

GREAT CAUCASUS

A surprisingly strong ski touring region, still widely underused.

TURKEY

KAÇKAR NATIONAL PARK

High, remote, and expedition-like winter travel in the Himalayas.

INDIA

THE HIMALAYAS

BACKCOUNTRY TRIP DESIGN

Still Wild Mountains Trip Design is individual backcountry trip planning for guides, experienced riders, and private groups. It is built around terrain, timing, access, snow and weather patterns, group level, logistics, and backup options – before the trip begins.

This is not a standard packaged itinerary and not necessarily full daily guiding. It is a stronger planning structure for mountain travel: routes, sequence, timing, accommodation logic, transfers, regional specifics, and realistic alternatives when conditions change.

Clear route logic

A trip structure built around terrain, movement, and realistic daily flow.

Stronger logistics

Access, lodging, transfers, timing, and local specifics planned as one system.

Better decision before arrival

Backup scenarios and regional context prepared in advance, not improvised on the ground.

Deeper than a guidebook. Lighter than full daily guiding.

When This Approach Works Best

This approach works best for guides, experienced riders, and private groups who do not need full daily local support but do need stronger planning, clearer logistics, and a realistic trip structure before arrival.

170+ Routes

GUIDEBOOKS

Discover the Still Wild Lines series – field-based guidebooks built on repeated route travel, real terrain knowledge, snow conditions, and many years of guiding work in the region. These are not tourist overviews, but working tools for deeper and more precise planning of strong winter trips.

Built on Guiding Experience

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backcountry routes in 7 regions
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clients in the mountains

For professional guides and advanced riders, our Trip Design service and Guidebooks provide the depth of local knowledge, route structure, and preparation needed to move independently – without turning the trip into a locally guided package

Still Wild Mountains grew out of long-term field research, route development, and a deep understanding of mountain regions.

That knowledge takes two forms: guidebooks and individual Trip Design. The same research foundation works in both the books and the individual projects.

▪ Guidebooks

The most accessible way to use this knowledge base

▪ Trip Design

A deeper and more personal way to prepare a journey. The same research foundation works in both the books and the individual projects.

 

Planning a Backcountry Trip?

An idea, a region, or a goal is already enough to begin. Tell us about the group, timing, and objectives of the trip – and we will help build a strong and realistic plan: from routes and daily timing to logistics, bookings, and backup scenarios.