January has had return client Mic return with his son and his two mates, for a 7 day private alpine instruction course based out of Tasman Saddle Hut, Mt Cook National Park.
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Alpine climbing skills course
Coming up for Mountain Guide, Gary Dickson is a 7 day Alpine climbing skills course , based in the Mt Cook alpine climbing region, Southern Alps, New Zealand.
Climbing course NZ
Coming up in December, IFMGA Mountain Guide Gary Dickson will be delivering a classic week long Alpine skills course for Alpine Guides Aoraki. Have a desire to learn from one of New Zealands leading mountaineering instructors?
Alpine climbing course
IFMGA mountain guide Gaz has just arrived back from Mt Cook region where he has spent seven days teaching alpine climbing skills to 6 students with fellow IFMGA mountain guide Dave McKinley.
Alpine climbing instruction course
IFMGA Mountain Guide Gary is just back from the Mt Cook, Tasman Saddle area having just completed a 7 day Alpine Guides private instruction course for two clients who wanted to learn/hone their skills for further alpine climbing in the NZ southern alps. The weather was pretty windy, making for spectacular weather clouds( which were fantastic examples to see and learn from) and the neve is well filled in making for easy glacier travel/access/egress for upcoming mountaineering trips.
lenticular cloud formation observed on the recent alpine climbing instruction course
Leading out on the Tasman Glacier , private instruction climbing course
Climbers in the Darwin Icefall, Tasman Glacier, Mt Cook
Pioneer alpine climbing/instruction course
Finally I have got myself into the 21st century one might say…I have an iphone, and hence alpine pics taken with it on our most recent trip.
Here some pics from Pioneer hut, Head of the Fox Glacier – a week with Tomasz and Lida from Shanghai. A great course up there alpine climbing and learning skills like ice climbing on a perfect icewall up near the 2nd pioneer hut site.
Pioneer hut, a perfect place for and alpine climbing/instruction course in NZ
Fantastic ice formations @ governors col, main divide of the NZ southern alps
Alpine climbing instruction course
End of March/start of April had Mountain Guide Gary Dickson and Kasia and Tim from Australia head into the mountains for a 6 day Alpine climbing instruction course .Based out of Plateau hut , covering, knots, hitches, roping up for glacier travel, belays, cramponing and ice climbing, anchors, mountain weather, avalanche, etc…….
learning to belay on the 6 day alpine climbing course
ice climbing – Mt Cook in the background
Happy belayer
Alpine climbing instruction
February saw IFMGA Mountain Guide Gary and Tomasz and Lida from Shanghai head into Tasman Saddle for a 7 day alpine climbing instruction course
Fresh snow during the alpine climbing instruction course.
View of Mt Cook from Tasman saddle hut
Freshly coated Tasman Saddle hut
Alpine climbing instruction course
Decemebr 2017 had Mountain Guide Gary Dickson head up to the Mount Cook Climbing region to instruct an Alpine climbing course.
Learn the skills of glacier travel and glaciation on an alpine instruction course With Mountain Guide Gary Dickson
Observe and interpret mountain weather on an Alpine skills course
Alpine ski mountaineering course
In October, Gary headed into the head of the Tasman Glacier, based at Tasman Saddle hut with clients Mark and Rachel. Learing the skills of ski mountaineering in preparation for a trip May 2017 to Denali. Cold snowy weather conditions provided perfect conditions to test gear , back country skiing / ski touring techniques , learn and apply technical mountaineering skills and weather and avalanche knowledge.
Sunset from Tasman saddle hut
Canyon lands, back basins Tasman Glacier