DPS Skis Captures The Sights And Sounds Of Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan Mountains

DPS Cinematic, in association with Outdoor Research, brings us the "Song for the Nomad"–the final short film of their highly acclaimed four-part series The Shadow Campaign. DPS has made it a goal for their shorts to take a more personal approach: A group of friends in the mountains enjoying the process of creating beautiful and unique images as a team. 'Song for the Nomad' takes this personal process one step further. DPS founder and skier Stephan Drake's girlfriend, Katya Mihailova, is a renowned composer and pianist from Kyrgyzstan.

On a summer trip several years ago to Kyrgyzstan with Katya, Drake first saw the vast and beautiful Tian Shan Mountains that border Kazakhstan and China and started to conceptualize a cinematic project. Watch and listen as Drake, and DPS skiers Piers Solomon and Drew Petersen along with filmmakers George Knowles and Ben Sturgulewski take on this boundless backcountry, set to the recording of local instruments and musicians played in Katya's childhood Kyrgyzstan concert hall.