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CHINA. 2013. Altai mountains, Xinjiang. Hkom, a small village in the upper Altai, where a few hundred Kazakhs and Tuwans live. It is geographically within the heart of the remnants of ski culture, but few real skiers remain here. To find them one has to go to the remoter villages in the mountains surrounding the village.