What an awesome sunset – what to experience on your West Coast of NZ mountaineering trip
8 day mountaineering trip – destination, West Coast of the NZ Southern Alps. Base, Pioneer Hut 2400m. Lots of glacier, snow and ice.
Great weather and Primo conditions were had by Mountain Guide Gary and Australian mountaineers Fernando and Jamie.
Summit of Grey Peak, Main divide, Southern Alps
Descending to Chancellor hut, Fox Glacier
Outside Pioneer Hut, ready to go classic west coast mountaineering
January 2016, Ascents trip to the West coast, based at Centenial Hut. Great weather and we had the whole of the 8000ha of the Franz neve to ourselves! and the end of the week , a fantastic traverse of the Remarkables, above Queenstown….
Anthony on the summit of Single Cone, the third peak on the Remarkables traverse
Ant climbing on Mt Aurora, Franz Josef glacier, West coast NZ
The kiwi summer alpinism season is upon us.
Mega classic snow and ice Mt Lendenfeld 3192m centre
Fun and classic summer alpinism on the wild west coast, NZ
Conditions on the glaciers are looking excellent due to the good snow winter we have had. Check out a few of our additions on our webpage – Mt Lendenfeld mega classic 3192m peak week and the Classic west coast peaks week. Time to dust of those mountaineering boots, find your headtorch and start planning your next kiwi adventure. Fly into queenstown airport, we can come and pick you up, whip over to wanaka for a pre trip BBQ, then cruise down the wild west coast, hop into a helicopter and be climbing in some of the worlds finest alpine terrain…