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KAMCHATKA · SMALL GROUPS · MARCH–MAY

Kamchatka on an Airbus,
small groups

Kamchatka in a small group: four or five riders and two guides. You stay at the Kamchatka Chalet 5*, eighty metres from the helicopter. Eight hours of helicopter time and around 25,000 vertical metres over the trip. Freeride by helicopter on volcanoes, at your own pace. This trip is run by SnowSurfPro.

Group of 4 or 5 riders
with two mountain guides

8 hours of helicopter time
that's roughly three to four full days of riding

Around 25,000 metres
total vertical over the trip

Kamchatka Chalet 5*
seven nights, single Comfort-category rooms

Airbus H130
bulging windows and doors, so you can see what is below the helicopter

Gear included
ABS airbag pack, transceiver, shovel, probe

HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE MI-8 TRIP

A small group instead of fourteen

The trip is the same: eight days and eight hours of helicopter time. The difference is who's on board. The Mi-8 carries a group of up to fourteen; here it's four or five riders and two guides.

RUN

From volcano to ocean

The Kamchatka heliski classic: start at the summit, finish on the Pacific shore.

RUN

Into a volcano crater

A descent into the crater of an active volcano.

RUN

In the fjords

Where the mountains drop into the water.

PRICE

Four or five riders and two guides

Prices shown are for the 2026 season. Current prices will be updated soon, closer to the season.

8 DAYS · 2 GUIDES PER GROUP

₽1,500,000 ($17,200) per person for a group of four

₽1,300,000 ($14,900) per person for a group of five. The price depends on the helicopter chosen.

WHERE YOU STAY

Kamchatka Chalet 5* only

Seven nights in single Comfort-category rooms. A choice of three places to stay is available on the Mi-8 trip.

  • We meet you at the airport
  • Private airport–hotel–airport transfers
  • 7 nights at the Kamchatka Chalet 5*, in single Comfort-category rooms
  • Breakfast, and a picnic in the mountains on flying days
  • Thermal pool and sauna
  • Private helicopter
  • 8 hours of actual helicopter time
  • Two mountain guides for the group
  • Avalanche safety gear: ABS airbag pack, transceiver, shovel, probe
Not included: membership fee — ₽5,000 a year: the annual association fee that gives access to all our heliski trips in the current calendar year.

Prices are set in Russian roubles. Dollar figures are approximate, converted at ₽87 to the US dollar.

WHERE YOU STAY

Kamchatka Chalet 5*

The hotel opened on 1 July 2023 and sits on six hectares. A thermal and spa complex, a gym, its own restaurant. You can see the Vilyuchinsky volcano from the windows. Some of the rooms are themed around the expeditions of Kamchatka's first explorers — Bering, Dezhnev, Atlasov, Krasheninnikov.

Day 1
Sunday

Arrival in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and a thirty-minute transfer to the base. A welcome reception, introductions to the guides, lunch, a safety briefing and avalanche rescue training, dinner.

Days 2–7

Riding. On no-fly days there are other things to do.

Day 8
Sunday

Breakfast, transfer to the airport, flight home.

Chalet of the Kamchatka Chalet hotel with a volcano viewRoom at the Kamchatka Chalet hotel, Kamchatka heliski programLobby of the Kamchatka Chalet hotelMoscow, Kamchatka and Vladivostok clocks at the Kamchatka Chalet hotelRestaurant of the Kamchatka Chalet hotelRestaurant hall serving local cuisine, Kamchatka ChaletLobby bar of the Kamchatka Chalet hotel

The hotel — scroll sideways · 7 photos

WHO ACCOMPANIES THE GROUP

SnowSurfPro, since 2013

Founder Peter Yastrebkov is a certified ski guide of the Russian Mountain Guides Association. Heliskiing is freeride with a helicopter. Without one, we guide freeride in Krasnaya Polyana. On request, we organise a freeride school — get in touch if you want to learn.

Each season more than 150 people ride with us on heliski trips, and more than 300 across all our trips. Groups are accompanied by guides, including ski guides certified by the Russian Mountain Guides Association. Meet the team on the About page.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Footage from the trip

Heliskiing in Kamchatka, 2019

Group on a volcano slope above the clouds, Kamchatka heliskiSnowboarder on a ridge above a Pacific bay, KamchatkaKamchatka Chalet hotel with thermal pools, drone viewRoom with a king-size bed at the Kamchatka Chalet hotelBedroom at the Kamchatka Chalet hotelHanging chair with a volcano view at the Kamchatka Chalet hotelBathroom in a Kamchatka Chalet room
Helicopter at a drop-off by the Pacific shore, Kamchatka heliskiAirbus EC130 on a summit, small-group heliskiing in KamchatkaGroup of riders next to the Airbus EC130 in KamchatkaHelicopter landing in the snowy forest in Kamchatka

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