Building genuine bonds between different communities. From February 5-14, 2023, Aspen families hosted 13 students and two chaperones from Abetone, Italy, and the surrounding region. While in Aspen, the Abetone students... read more →
Dear Members of Sister Cities and Challenge Aspen, Thank you would be the single word I would use to describe the 2023 Bariloche-Aspen adaptive skiing exchange. Every situation, with every... read more →
Challenge Aspen organized an apres ski event to celebrate and support its sister program "Desafio Bariloche". Three members of this organization, Paul Wray, Joaquin Garcia Jurjo and Mariana Neira, came... read more →
Please join us in celebrating the growing relationship between the artist community of both the Roaring Fork Valley and Bariloche, Argentina. Along with other past exchange artists, Deb Jones will... read more →
Aspen and Bariloche complete another successful medical exchange. "To everyone who gave us their time and space, thank you! Everyone participated in one way or another to make us feel... read more →
The U.S. is uncomfortably stimulating. The U.S. is loud and unruly. The U.S. is foreign. Nine 8th graders from Shimukappu, Japan traveled to Aspen for ten days at the beginning... read more →
On a brisk, sunny January afternoon at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, the clicks of cameras snapping away blended with the sounds of a nature preserve as about a... read more →
Aspen and Shimukappu, Japan have been sister cities for thirty years and for thirty years the student exchange has been creating bonds between families of both communities. It was the... read more →
Celebrating the relationships with our sister cities. Flags displayed on Main St, Aspen on Thanksgiving week honoring our sister cities. Grateful for the relationships built and experiences shared. Grateful for... read more →
Generosity in practice. The Buddhist priest moved methodically around the room, instructing us in rhythmically hitting our instruments. He divided us into groups of four: one person beating a taiko... read more →