
Kiril Kostov
Tour and Mountain Guide
I was a typical city guy born and raised in the center Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. I went on my first organized trekking tour in the Rila National Park when I was in high school and since then I felt in love with the mountains and slowly became a real “outdoorholic”.
I graduated the National Sports Academy “Vasil Levski” (bachelor in Tourism and Alpinism) in 2003 and in 2004 got my international mountain guide’s license, becoming a member of the UIMLA (Union of the International Mountain Guides Associations). Since then I have been guiding trekking and hiking, road cycling and mountain bike, via ferrata and rock climbing, snowshoeing and backcountry ski tours in Bulgaria, Monte Negro, Croatia, Albania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Spain, Nepal, Georgia, Morocco (7 times successful ascent of Mt. Toubkal 4160 m a.s.l.) and others.
After 7 years working for a big Danish travel agency specialized in activity based tours I founded Azimut Tours, a licensed and fully bounded tour operator in 2015 and since then I am managing the company, but haven’t cheated my passion for outdoors and still spend most of my time guiding tours in the nature