Seventeen foals had arrived by early summer, with three more expected, and a snow leopard had taken one. The team’s 2025 update covers the season on the mountain pastures, the first Chaar Expedition and a new intern from France.

In 2021, after years of wolves, mountain accidents and feed shortages paid for privately, Munarbek faced a choice: sell the horses or stake everything on them. A look back at how the revival began.

In 2012, as filming of True Appaloosa wrapped, Munarbek Kuldanbaev bought a stallion called Chaar Suluu and five mares. A year-by-year account of the predators, the hungry winters and the people who later stepped in to help.

In June 2024 the year’s foals went up to Ters for the first time, among wildflowers and still lakes, with the glaciers still white above them. Munarbek shares the photographs that came down from the pasture.

Good spring rain, thick grass on the lower pastures and new foals at every visit. Munarbek’s May 2024 report from the Ketmen-Tobo valley, and why the herd will not go higher until June.

Tufts of winter hair on every fence post mark the end of a hard season at the ranch. The association reports on how the herd came through, and on the busy weeks of foaling, vaccinations and hay planning that follow.

In 2000 a finance student dreamed of a grandfather offering two horses, one black and one spotted. Years later, lost after dark on the way to Son Kul while filming True Appaloosa, Munarbek recalls what happened next.