At the end of September 2020 Olga Belotserkovskaya, Valera Alekseev, Zhora Berezikov, Pavel Gryaznov, Camille London and I made a trip to a place called Bektau-Ata in Central Kazakhstan. It’s a granite massif 70 km to the north of Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in Asia. Dozens and dozens of grotesque-shaped boulders are located here, spread across 170 square kilometers. First routes here has been climbed in 2009 by Dmitri Salnikov and friends from Tomsk. Since then, only one other big party from Russia visited the area. Also, at least once a year, a fellow climber from Almaty—Valera Alexeyev—has come to Bektau to find, clean, and climb new boulders.