Finding traditional craft – making fur snowboards in Altay

A 16-year-old Kazakh boy, Azamat Adalbek, is enjoying his unique winter holiday learning to make fur snowboards. The boy's home is in Meilifeng village in Altay prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Meilifeng village is surrounded by rolling mountains and has a cold, long winter that lasts from late October to early April of the following year. Here, the temperature often drops to minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius, and the snow depth can reach over one meter, creating a magnificent snowy landscape.