December, IFMGA guide Gary Dickson worked with Alpine Guides IFMGA guide Pablo to deliver an Alpine Skills course @ Mt Cook.
Coming up in January, Return client Mick, his son and two mates are arriving to do a 7 day mountaineering course.
Right now is the perfect time to go on a week long mountaineering trip in the Southern Alps with IFMGA mountain Guide Gary Dickson.
Why not come on down to Wanaka, and lets head over to the West Coast and Climb Mt Lendenfeld, one of NZs 26 3000m peaks or have a week of skills learning to do such an ascent, or a combo?
IFMGA Mountain guide Gary Dickson is just back from running a 7 day Alpine skills mountaineering course for Alpine Guides Aoraki . Tricky weather, but lots of learning of skills and now the 4 participants are ready to head out and apply those mountaineering skills to various mountain adventures….
The 22/23 summer mountaineering season is upon us. Join Gary Dickson, NZ’s leading private instruction specialist for a week of custom learning, coaching and mentorship in NZ’s premier Souther Alps mountain range.
IFMGA mountain guides Gaz and Pablo have just completed a 7 day Alpine guides Aoraki, Alpine Skills course with 6 participants. Great weather and excellent conditions at the head of the Tasman Glacier, a great venue for covering the multitude of mountaineering skills for climbing in NZ and the world.
Mountain guide Gary is just back from the Mt Cook region where he instructed a 4 day crevasse rescue course for Alpine Guides.
This was based at Plateau hut, a fantastic venue for this with perfect crevasse terrain right beside the hut and spectacular views of Mt Cook, Silberhorn, Tasman, Lendenfeld, Dixon.
A wee climb on to Glacier Dome gave awesome 360 degree views of glaciers, moraine walls, terminal lakes, firn zones, neves, bergshrunds etc for the participants on the mountaineering skills course.
Prussiking out of a crevasse on the mountaineering course
Participants roping up for glacier travel
Rope rescue systems training
IFMGA Mountain Guide, Gaz has just returned from a 7 day Mountaineering course with Peter and Kristiina from Finland who wanted to learn and practice in particular, traveling on glaciers, glacier travel rope work and techniques, crevasse rescue and avalanche conditions knowledge.
Conditions for traveling around the NZ glaciers this season is fantastic due to snowfalls during the spring and the neve is very well filled in.
Crevasse rescue practice on mountaineering course, NZ
Practicing pitching on Mt Aylmer
Fantastic conditions on the Tasman glacier neve
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 2018. A mountaineering course was run by Internationally qualified and experienced mountain guide Gary Dickson with two keen beginner mountaineers from Sydney , Australia.
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Mt Aspiring NW ridge
On the 11th of December Mountain guide Gary Dickson and kiwi client John flew into Bevan col looking for a reasonable break in the current weather for a Mount Aspiring ascent attempt. Unfortunately the weather gods did not play ball and the two mountaineers walked over to Bevan col 4 days later in ‘interesting’ navigation conditions and later flew out to Wanaka. Even though it was a dissappointing trip not to have summited, it was a good trip into the hills with plenty of good hut comraderie, photo opportunities and technical skills updated for John.
Comming up in January, return Alpinism and Ski client Anthony will be jetting in from HongKong for a week of ascent action with Gaz.
In late November/early December, Mountain Guide gaz worked up at Mt Cook instructing on a technical mountaineering course/intermediate mountaineering course.