Caucasus Camp
Giving mountain kids in Georgia their first step into adventure sport — free of charge, so access to skis, instruction, and the mountains themselves is never the thing standing in a child's way.
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Built On Mountains.
Emptied Of People.
Georgia is built on mountains — the Greater Caucasus, the Lesser Caucasus, and the ranges between them. That geography is a huge, largely untapped opportunity: ski guiding, mountain guiding, trekking, rafting, running a guesthouse, or simply building a life around winter and adventure tourism.
At the same time, Georgia's mountain villages are emptying out. Older generations stay; the young leave for Tbilisi and other cities because they don't see a future at home. Without English, without access to equipment, and without anyone showing them the path, many of these kids lose years of potential simply because they never got the chance to try.
A Bridge, Built By
The People Who Needed One
The people behind Project Caucasus are ski guides, ski instructors, trekking and mountain guides, and mountaineers who each found their own way into this life. Looking back, they recognized how much of that path had depended on chance access — money, connections, or simply living somewhere the opportunity already existed.
So the wider Project Caucasus community built Caucasus Camp — a charity camp giving children from Georgia's mountain regions their first real steps in skiing, mountaineering, and adventure sport, completely free of charge. Never built around a single leader, never a source of income for anyone involved — every camp funded from the ground up through fundraising and sponsors, run as a 100% charity project.
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Six Camps, Six Years
Between 2022 and 2025, Caucasus Camp ran six camps and expeditions, reaching twenty-two children from eight mountain regions across Georgia — Adjara, Guria, Tusheti, Racha, Svaneti, Tianeti, Pshavi, and Khevi.
First Camp — 13 Children, 8 Regions
The very first Caucasus Camp. Thirteen children from eight different mountain regions of Georgia came together — most of them stepping onto skis for the very first time. Purely introductory: the basics of skiing, on snow, with real instruction, for kids who had never had access to it before.
Second Camp — 16 Children
Most of the children from the winter camp returned, joined by new participants, for a summer focused on mountaineering and trekking. The group completed two summit climbs and took their first real steps in mountaineering alongside trekking and general mountain activities.
Third Camp — 21 Children
The camp grew to twenty-one children and, for the first time, included ski touring. Progress across the group was dramatic — many of the children who had started as complete beginners a year earlier were now skiing with real confidence and skill.
Freestyle Skiing Camp
A dedicated freestyle skiing camp gave participants the chance to build on their new skills in a more playful, technical discipline — a direct line to the freeride and competition paths some of them would go on to take.
Mount Kazbek Expedition (5,054 m)
Building on the mountaineering foundation from the summer camp, a group of the children attempted Mount Kazbek — one of Georgia's highest and most serious peaks. Three of the camp's own members reached the summit, a clear sign of how far their skills and confidence had come.
Closing Camp for the Original Group
The final camp for this particular group of children. Many had already found their own path forward — a natural close to the chapter that started it all.
A First Step, Not A Finish Line
What happened after camp is the real measure of it. These are children who, without a bridge like this, statistically leave the mountains and lose touch with the one thing that made their region special in the first place.
Now a trail guide in Bakhmaro, and competed in the Freeride World Tour Junior competition — a path he chose for himself after that first camp.
Earned her Level 1 ski instructor qualification and now works as an instructor. Represented Georgia at a junior ski mountaineering camp abroad, and is a former athlete on Georgia's ski mountaineering youth national team.
Several other participants have gone on to work in adventure tourism in their home regions — exactly the kind of local opportunity Caucasus Camp set out to open up.
"None of this was guaranteed. Instead, they became guides, instructors, and athletes — in the mountains they grew up in."
Caucasus Camp is a project of Project Caucasus, run entirely by volunteer instructors, guides, and partners, and funded through fundraising and sponsorship. Every lari raised has gone directly into the camps.
Gallery
Six camps, six years, twenty-two kids — on snow, on rock, and on the way up. See it in photos.
Help Send The
Next Group Up
Caucasus Camp runs entirely on fundraising and sponsorship — every lari goes directly into the next camp. If you'd like to sponsor a camp, donate equipment, or volunteer as a guide or instructor, we'd love to hear from you.
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